It gets cold and windy up there. I would definitely put the chicken door facing west or south west. I agree a south facing window is nice we have the same in our coop. You don’t want any doors facing west or north. I don’t know how well the hoop coops would hold up or how much heat would stay in...
Anyone in the Helena area or anyone that would be willing to travel to the Helena area and wants a rooster I will have extra roosters available in a few weeks. We want them to get a little older to decide which ones are working out for our flock then getting rid of the extras. I’ll post updates...
We had good luck with Meyers hatchery online. We ordered our first ones a little bit too early and had a cold spell the same week they shipped so we unfortunately lost a few chicks right off the bat but they refunded us right away and sent us a few freebies on our next order. Easy to order and...
Do you breed Icelandic’s regularly? We have enough for the first go round this year but I know we have quite a few cockerels in the mix batches of straight runs we ordered. But next year I would love to get some Icelandic’s. I’m just west of Helena so a short trip for me to come a get some.