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Well, you brought me back to reality. I totally forgot that I need sunlight to supplement with light... lol. What a conundrum. So this is going to be harder than I thought. I would need a lot of panels to collect any light, presuming that I don't have any overcast - that's a stretch even just...

I don't have power at the coop. Currently have solar powered flood lights for the night time (dusk to dawn). It works... but has anyone used solar powered lights strong enough to use as supplement lighting for sustained egg laying throughout the winter? Is there a simple product that I can...

Is it a particular feed or a DIY?

So I decided to search Rancho today and found this. I suppose I’m a bit late to your post. I’m another fellow citizen of Rancho Cucamonga. I’d like to have a rooster to sustain my flock, but that’ll never legally happen. I would recommend one of two things: 1. Contact your city council rep...

Yea, we should definitely do another BBC survey.

Can we resurrect this poll to do a refresh?

Great guide. Regarding meat spots... no way of mitigating them or reducing them?? Wish there was something about that.

Thanks for the advice. Yea, we waiting almost impatiently for three weeks for them to hatch. However, they seem to be happy. I’ll keep an eye on them. I stay up late anyway and will coach broody, if that were possible.

Ten chicks that are three weeks old (incubated and hatched), was in a brooder, took them out and tucked them under a broody orp. Think they’ll take to each other by morning?

Yea, I'll need to check. However, I know that people pay about $8 per fertilized egg to hatch. More for chicks (female). Personally, I would probably pay $2-$3 for Straight Run, no breed ID, but I could say that these chicks came from breeds that are rated "better" or "best" for laying.

Hey Everyone, to give my kiddos another reason why not to spend time in front of the TV this entire summer, I purchased an incubator. They’re looking forward to this fun summer activity of incubating / hatching our fertilized eggs and caring for the chicks. We’ll keep a few, but I’d imagine that...

#1 makes sense. #2 I was thinking safety in numbers as the four older ones would be outnumbered by the 16 smaller ones.

That’s hilarious! What a deterrent!

Hey all - Farmin Armen here! I’m helping my neighbor build a new coop and run. Long story, but a predator got into the coop one night and feasted on or ravaged 12 hens. I went to the local feed store and got him four RIR when they were 4-6 week old pullets. Now they’re about 13-15 weeks. We...

See, that’s the thing. The coop is predator proof minus the bear. My hardware cloth on the side walls and cattle cloth on the roof (both regarding my run) are not nailed, but stapled with heavy duty staples. I stapled every few squares. Seemed quite quick. Also, I really wish I could get up...

I wouldn't mind if I could snap awake around 5am-ish. Would it help to say that I work full time, and have several kids ages 7 and under and that a "full night's uninterrupted rest" is foreign to me? :) I take full advantage of the benefits of not needing to wake up to let the hens out.

Outside of convincing wifey to allow me to start raising chickens (and being blessed to have married her), installing an automatic coop door was the best thing that I did for me and those fully hens. I used to set my alarm early for morning chores, mostly dictated by letting the hens out just...

Good luck!

Agreed with all of this. As a person living in a city, I actually want to pick up and move away to a rural place where people know the value of hard work by the sweat of their brow, loan tools and cups of sugar, eggs and such, and where I’m allowed to have 100s of chickens just so that I can...

At least it was signed! My neighbors send me anonymous letters citing city zoning codes about my flood lights. 😂