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Woah! You can see the eggs!

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She'd definitely having the same symptoms as your chickens. Our coop is about 24 square feet and 4 feet in height. We have a larger dog crate, but i don't think it'll fit well inside. I'd also prefer not to use a dog crate, because we use them in the house and to be honest chickens can be very...

So our chicken is hanging out in the nesting box again.. We went out of town for 2 weeks and the neighbors were taking care of the hens. They started noticing the chicken sitting on the eggs for about 2-3 day straight, every time they went to collect eggs. Generally we let them free range, so...

Thank you bento!

It's been a couple of days, and she hasn't done it again. I think it was an oops. haha

Our chickens didn't like cilantro, but they did love kale!

Interesting. This is the first time it's happened, and she normally doesn't guard her eggs. I picked her up and put her on the roost as soon as I saw her sleeping in the nesting box. I figured it was because she laid so close to dusk. We will keep an eye on her though.

We have 4 hens, 2 rhode island reds, 1 ameraucana, and 1 black copper maran. One day, at dusk, I was closing the hens into the coop and I saw the black copper maran in the process of laying in the nesting box. I figured since she was already in the coop I'd close the hens in and come back to...

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We had a problem with the eggs breaking. I think this was due to the chickens being new layers and the hard wooden floor of the nesting box. The egg shells have become more dense now, but before then we used some left over carpet. We cut them into squares using a box cutter and placed them in...

It's either 15 or 16 posts. I was just given "rights" to add an article.

We probably spent ~1,000. The receipts are in a lowes bag. Although, I'm scared to add it up. haha

Hi, I've posted a link to our coop before, but I just posted enough to be able to write an article! Here is our submission for the coop contest https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/atlanta-georgia-urban-chicken-coop

Is there anything we can put in the water besides salt to lower the freezing temperature of the water? I'm too scared of fires to have a light bulb in the coop. Ours isn't built for electricity.

Martha's coop is definitely bigger than my house

Martha's coop is definitely bigger than my house

Wow, -20 F... I was worried about 30 F in Atlanta, GA haha