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We need to back this little girl! http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_25589128/kentfield-girl-9-fights-save-chickens-amid-homeowners

After spending some time and watching the hens, it looks like a matter of the little bantam bully has now become the bullied. Yes it becomes very apparent when putting out treats, she avoids a couple of my other larger hens, and saw them peck as the little girl scurried by, thanks for the tip...

The little banty still isn't leaving the coop much, kind of acting half way broody or something, doesn't seem to mind when I'm taking the eggs out of the nesting boxes. Don't see any visible wounds, but think it is still getting picked on by her bigger hen coop mate.

I have a Bantam hen that has been somewhat of a bully towards my full sized hens, and now I think that it has started to lay, it isn't leaving the coop, however my other little banty is still mingling fine. Not sure if one or two of my other hens have said, enough is enough and have started to...

Quote: Ohhh my Gosh...that is great....jealous....wish I'd thought of that.... >..........Oh my........Meet The Flockers............. LOL like both the names!

Call my henhouse "District 9" after the movie. The director of the movie must have chickens, the behavior of the prawns seemed chicken like.

Very nice job on the coop, however, the only thing I see wrong, is the horseshoe is hanging upside down (the luck will run out) :-). I as well have a coop next to a creek, and you will need luck to keep the raccoons and other predators away.

If it were me, I would build it with the two access doors, but in the building process, keep in mind that you might remodel to add the third opening door. So frame your design, you only need to make the four cuts and add a couple of hinges and locking hasp for the third door, in my mind I'm...

Thanks, Think I'm going to read more about the deep litter method. I do have to worry about Rats, I've seen some dropping on top of the coop, so I know they are around, also have seen some digging from outside of the coop area into the coop and under the 2 inch welded wire I have under the...

I'm using 1/2 inch hardware cloth as the floor of my chicken coop, my original thought was the poop would go through the cloth and down onto the dirt 3 feet below, then rake out the poop every once in a while. This worked fine when my hens were little chicks. Now the 1/2 inch hardware cloth...

I have a couple of saw horses in the run. Didn't have a place to store them, and my chickens seem to like the saw horses as a perch. Thanks for all of the other ideas peeps.

a #50 pound sack of 16% layer crumbles is $9.81 in Petaluma at Hunt & Behrens. At the local feed store, I pay $15 for a premium Nutrena #50 pound sack of crumbles. After reading some of the previous posts, glad to see I'm paying a fair price.

Congrats on the first egg! If the shells continue to be soft, you might think about adding some calcium to their diet.

I was eggsited that another one of my hens started to lay for the first time a Golden comet named Rusty! Not as eggsiting as the first egg, from my White Rock named Bake (Shake was lost to a racoon) and didn't realize how much larger the eggs have become, from a medium size to a large size...

Yup, had one in my sweater pocket, and forgot about it, threw the sweater on my bed, went to put the sweater back on when I went to go work in the yard, saw the egg fly out of the pocket, right onto my carpet. good thing my hens must be getting plenty of calcium because I was glad the egg shell...

The eggs are from my White Plymouth Rock, they have always been a beige color, first time I've seen an egg with spots, the purple didn't come out in the photo very well, will have to try and get another picture. Quote:

I've been giving my hens warm Quaker oats in the morning when they get let out of the coop, they like the warm treat when the temp dips below freezing. Was at the dollar store the other day and bought some cinnamon oatmeal, and they like it just as well.

The egg on the left is before feeding the pomice, the egg on the right is after feeding pomice.

The pomace if pretty tanic and have noticed the chicken poop to be very dark gray almost black, so eased back on the amount of pumice, but noticed little purple spots in the egg shell today.

This morning I gave them a hand full of grape pumice which is the skins and seeds left over from pressing wine a couple of days ago. They really like it!