I recommend never using chicken wire because predators rip right through it in seconds. Hardware cloth with screws and washers or cage clips is the way to go
I have 4 four month old chickies and one of my reds wont open one eye and I am thinking I took bad advice to put play sand and diatomaceous earth mixed together thinking that would keep them from getting mites but I am thinking the dust from it all is why she wont open one eye. It does open and...
You all sound like us! 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 chickens, guinnea pig, hamster, and they neighbors chicken lives in our front yard, plus my son and I are two crazy people!! lol
I am a beginner chicken Mom, just got my two hens (10 weeks old now) about a month and a half ago. They are surprisingly very good pets. My son and I couldn't pick names for them and one was big and one was little so we call them Big Bird and Little Bird. Little bird started out being sweet and...