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I'm guessing your temps stay fairly steady up there when it rains and you didn't have a 12 week old cochin out there. When we get these storms as the seasons are changing we see temp swings like we did that day from around 105 F to upper 50's in the matter of 20-30 minutes. We are at an altitude...

That's what I had figured, lesson learned on that one. They have a nice cozy coop now so we shouldn't have any more problems because I know my wife is loving that breed and wants to breed them when we move to a lot with some land next year (which means I will be building some more coops). My...

I agree Fred, for the most part they are some tough animals. I've got it a little rougher now though because we lost my wife's favorite one in a thunderstorm a couple weeks ago. She had set the birds (when they were still in their wire cage) towards the shadier part of the yard on a hot day then...

I know a lot of you are thinking I'm nuts to worry about these gals already and it's not even winter or the middle of summer, but look at the max/min temps the pullets have to deal with when the seasons change. Those temps at the bottom both happened since about 4 o'clock this morning. We have...

Looks like I won the bet with the wife, they're all in that house cuddled up on their own tonight. Didn't do the flashlight thing, guess they approve of the construction. Definitely have some poles in there, took a 2" dia. wooden dowel and ripped it in half. Have plans to grab a couple branches...

We've had them since they were chicks a few days old. They went outside once they were around three weeks old and we were keeping them in a wire cage until I was able to build their new coop. Temps got to 95 because we got up to the high 80's/low 90's yesterday in ambient temperature. I'll...

Alright y'all, My newbie question for the night comes mostly from my wife's mouth (cause I told her not to worry about it)....we just built our first coop and put the hens in it today. They're new girls only 12 weeks old. She had put them in the hen house initially but I had installed a temp...

I'll turn them loose in there around October, mine just hit their sixth week and I still have a lot of other veggies I don't want them getting to right now. Surprises me that the DE won't get to the adults, from what I hear it slices them up like butter. My largest problem has always been...

Right...the question is if you can use FEED grade as you would FOOD grade? I bought the one to use on my chickens already and was thinking about dumping it on my veggies to get rid of a bug plague. Consensus right now is that it will be ok to do so.

We got a nasty case of squash bugs this year, I had noticed the eggs on the bottoms of some of our leaves back at the beginning of June and hand crushed everything I saw. It's my wife's garden so left it to her after that and they got out of control so we had to dust the garden with a pesticide...

Quick ? if anyone feels like chiming in....is there any difference between FEED grade and FOOD grade diatomaceous earth? I'm guessing they are one in the same but was wondering if I could also use one labeled feed grade on my garden in addition to the chickens.

Thanks for the replies on the watering methods that you both put to use. Think I'm settling on these Murray McMurray auto-watering dishes with a gravity feed from a 5 gallon paint bucket. Really similar to the watering nipples and I won't have the mess of the water getting knocked over or pooped...

Sounds like you got your 4 sq.ft. of roosting space to me!

They are my first. The thought process went as such: 6 chicks, 2 purchased straight run from one feed store, the other 4 are supposed to have been vent sexed and purchased from a different feed store. My guess is that we will end up with four hens and two roos (probably one of the roos will be...

Not sure what all of you OT's do about chicken waterers....I'm not an OT but every single contraption I've seen at the local feed stores looks like either a plastic piece of crap or a galvanized piece of crap. All for lobster dinner prices. I'm thinking about using some auto-waterers from...

Thanks for the info on the winter pasture, just what I was looking for! As far as LED's, CFL's, and standard bulbs go...if you're looking to just provide the 14 hours of light I would go with a daylight CFL. They are the ones that cast the bright white light. LED's are too expensive to purchase...

When you say that you "ruined" your soil, I'm curious as to why it is such a desperate situation? Are your chickens dying from it? I ask because I do an awful amount of gardening and I garden in some pretty darn poor situations and I can make a soil work for me. I would assume that you can make...

Why not just let all three get fatter first? Keep them separated like you already have, I've always been one for sleeping on a bright idea.

I've never had the pleasure of disciplining an unruly roo since we can't have them inside the city...but it does remind me of an encounter I had with my neighbor's chihuahua a month ago. I just had gotten home from work and was carrying some groceries in with me as I unlocked my front door and I...