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It's been awhile since I dropped into the coop. My flock is doing well. My girls were reluctant to use the nesting boxes until I changed from wood chips to straw lining. For some reason my flock prefers to sleep on roosting bars in the run rather than in the coop. My first flock did the...

Greetings Ya'll, My pullets are 23 weeks old and a few have started to lay eggs but they are small ones. They have laid then on the ground in the run but not yet in the nesting boxes. I noticed they were creating nests in the yard out of pine straw so I put wheat straw in the nesting boxes to...

I had an earlier flock without a rooster, then add some chickens and a rooster, Under both circumstances my flock did fine and produced eggs. I lost my flock to some wild dogs and have rebuilt my flock from new chicks, I'm trying to decide if I should get a rooster or not. My new chickens are...

Greetings! What you have looks like raccoon fur. I lost my entire flock, a rooster and 5 hens , to a bobcat early Easter Sunday morning in Leesville, SC. Is there a way to keep bobcats away without turning the coop into a fortress? I doubt it but thought I would ask anyway.

Hi! I live in Leesville, SC close to Gilbert. I have a few egg laying hens but an looking for some new ones to increase my flock. Not sure that I'm up to raising chicks so I'm looking for 12 to 16 week old hens. Anybody have any for sale?

Thanks. Didn't know there was a way to post local.

Looking for egg layers, about 16 weeks old, near Leesville/Gilbert, SC. Any ideas?

Thanks to all. I thought that might be it but I wasn't sure.

I have a large coop, big enough for 12 to 14 birds with an attached covered run of 200 sqft. Around this is a very large enclosed but uncovered pen area for them to free range. The birds do not have their wings clipped and several of them will fly over the fence to roam the rest of the property...

I have a brooding hen that started sitting on a clutch of eggs for a few days, then moving to another, then another and finally selected a clutch of 10 eggs that she has been sitting on for 21 days as of today. I checked under her this morning and saw no broken or hatching eggs yet. The eggs are...

Thanks. That's what I was thinking but I wanted to be sure.

Hello You All, I have an older hen who decided to sit on a clutch of 12 eggs apparently to hatch them. She sat on them for about 7 days then moved to a nest with 3 eggs and started sitting again. Is this normal? I have a rooster and I know some eggs are probably fertilized. I candled the 12...

No extra coop but a cage available. When will he out of puberty?

I had 3 hens in my original flock and added 6 new hens and a rooster that were all about 8 weeks old. The rooster is a Rhode Island Red as are some of the hens. They all seemed to get along surprisingly well; no real problems or fighting. Now, at 26 weeks old, the rooster seems to pick on the...

I added some hens to my coop and was given a Rhode Island Red Rooster by a friend. All are getting along fine, but I'm concerned with what to do if the rooster fertilizes any of the eggs. Don't really want to raise chicks yet. How can I keep the rooster from fertilizing the eggs, or can I? How...

Thanks for the input. I think I will only add 5 new hens to the flock for now, then build a bigger and better coop/run system.

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Thanks for all of the inputs. The Coop is 6ft X 4ft with 10 nesting boxes inside and 2 roosting rails. The attached Run is 20 ft X 10 ft, covered, with 3 roosting rails at different heights. The outside fenced area is 60 ft X 40 Ft and includes woods with trees and brush. (See photos). The...

I have three hens that are a year old or so and want to add another 7 to my flock. I knoe I should quarantine them for 21 days or so before mixing them together, but is there anything I need to do before putting them together in the coop? I have a large fenced area around the coop and run for...