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You may be right although with two of them, I feel fairly certain it was two eggs in one day. The first lay was early in the morning, second lay in the evening. Our hens like to be outside and only come in the coop to lay and leave so it is unlikely that a hen would sit on a nest in the morning...

There are the hooks. They are very long so the chicken pushes it when she enters the nest. Once released, the door rests on her tail until she turns and settles. Occasionally they get spooked by the door touching their back and they back out of the nest, which just results in a closed door, with...

It's to keep them from pushing the door open since I didn't want to go through the effort of adding edges to all the nesting boxes. It has 1 nail through the middle so i can rotate it and open the door. I'll try to get a picture of the hook. I drilled a small hole through the top of the box and...

It took me a bit to make time for this, but I have made one well working trap door with my existing coop. The boxes are 11.5" wide and talk and about 14" deep. I made my door 10x10" with the split at 3". I used a suggestion from Storey's "Raising Chickens" book and fashioned a hook out of heavy...

Thank you! I will check it out now

They are in a run that is 60x60 feet, so 3,600 square feet, about 36 square feet per bird. In the coop, we have two coops, one with 12 boxes, the other with 16. There are no greens left in the area, so they might be bored. I have recently learned about fermented feed and ordered a few...

WAY TO GO READING EVERY POST!!! I couldn't keep going after about 24 pages. Impatient I guess

I have handled them at night and it's like a dream come true. It is just hard for me to get here at night (this is work) because I have two young kids and my husband and I work opposite shifts so our little guys can be with at least one parent at a time instead of daycare. If this were my home...

The RIR are bullies! For God knows what reason, the old manager order a run of fancy chickens this summer. Thought they have the sweetest temperaments, they serve no purpose on this farm. Most of them are sultans and the RIR's pluck out all of their head feathers... its hilarious looking, these...

ok, I should have read first.... the link is great! I am so glad it has photos.... thank you!

Well. since I just started managing this farm two months ago, I am not sure which are the oldest. I asked the previous manager and he says he can't remember which he ordered and when. We have many different breeds. Astralourp, Barred Rock, Red sexlink, golden laced wyandotte, Rhode Island Red...

I have to admit, I did not read all 48 pages of this thread. I am managing a flock of 100 birds. They vary in age from 5 months, to 5 years. With only 5 roosters, we get an average daily egg count of 35-40. That means over half of our hens are not laying often or not at all. On top of it, we...