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UPDATE: Maggie has THIRTEEN ducklings!!!

The entire turkey/duck pen is separated from the free-range area with a gate. That is about all I can do. I don't have a way to do any more fencing-off at the moment. I can only shift bodies around. If you notice, in the picture with the Cayugas, I have a red chicken house. That is my maternity...

I'm sure there are many posts that ask the same sort of question, but I feel that every situation is unique so I would like some input from all the pros out there in BYC Land :) I have a broody Khaki Campbell. She is 2.5 years old and paired with a KC drake of the same age. Today is day 28. She...

UPDATE: This morning, I went out to feed the chickens and I let Bubbles out of her maternity ward. I opened all the doors on the coop and had to encourage her off the nest. She drank water from her drinker and ate her own food! Then she went to the dusting hole and she wandered around for a...

So this answered a lot of the questions I had with what I am going through at the moment. After a long day of rearranging, I ended up moving Bubbles (after dark) and her clutch to a 4-chicken big box store coop with a small run attached. At first she was freaking out and I kept encouraging her...

If I used a medium dog carrier (like the kind you take to the airport) and left the top on, would I need to close the door? I'm afraid the other chickens will take an interest in her new digs and drive her out.

I think I'm going to have to. I cant put anything in the outer run because it isn't covered. But it is very secure all the way around.

thank you for the link. I'm not sure how I would make a separate area for her. I can't divide the coop because the nest box is at one end and the coop door is at the other. I'm also worried about how the chicks will get down if I leave her where she is. All I have left is a medium size dog...

I have a 2 year old buff orpington, Bubbles, that has gone broody. I am glad for this because with the price of chicken in my area, we plan on culling the oldest birds in our flock of 12 and these natural replacements will be perfect timing. But I have a problem. My 20-bird capacity coop is...

It is a classic-style nesting box with a wire bottom, wooden sides, and a wooden platform on top for the doe to sit on to get away from the kits.

Looking for some advice. I have a 6-month-old TAMUK doe who was bred last month. I gave her a clean/sanitized (but previously used) wooden nest box with fresh straw on day 28 of her pregnancy and she was showing healthy signs of wanting to nest. But she absolutely refused the box. She would...

Fact: This is Dwight. Assistant to the Regional Manager no more. He is now the boss.

The morning report.

PowerBuff Girls: Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom

I am a homeschooling mother of 4 and this is our fist year raising chickens. I have always wanted chickens so when we moved to 7 wooded acres in Southwest Missouri, I couldn't wait to get a small flock started. Right now we have, 10 chickens: 7 pullets and 3 cockerels. I know that ratio is a...