Recent content by arcycarr2

We are in Wyoming - USA I'll check out the ideas you gave me - thanks

Exactly what I need, but it is less than five inches across - I'm thinking two or three times as big.

I have four brown leghorn hens in a small very sturdy coop and small wired in pen. The hens free range in daylight hours, but I have magpies who boldly walk through the open door to the pen and right into the coop to steal the eggs. Has anyone had success in getting rid of this problem. I...

Yes, It can be done. We have always had dogs and chickens and only had one that was a problem and he eventually came around, too. The best way I have found is to keep the chickens penned when we brought a new dog home. Our current dog is a young husky/shepherd. When I brought her home I put...

Yes, they were. They'd get to be several weeks old and then suddenly be dragging themselves around until I'd take pity and put them down. Since he left the little hens alone it had to be a way to get rid of possible rivals.

A few years ago my baby roosters all became crippled - one at a time. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. They'd be fine and then they couldn't walk, but just drug themselves around. No one else could figure it out either until one day I caught my rooster throwing a baby into the air and...

I have had chickens for over 40 years and have never had a rooster say "good night" before. Every night when I shut them up for the night I make sure they're all in the little chickens house. After I close up the house and then the pen my brown leghorn rooster crows loudly one time. He and...