Recent content by blakeh1

No rooster. I have 10 pullets on order now(2 Easter eggers, 3 barred rocks, 5 buff Orpington). Coop is huge but all I need is 10 birds

I’ve been out of the chicken game for a few years now when I sold my land and home a few years ago and temporarily moved to the city while on the hunt for some bigger better property. We closed on our new place about 6 months ago (10 acres) and it was beautiful but the previous owner had not...

I tilted it slightly towards the end I used a 2" hole saw. And the cardboard is to keep the feed from flowing out over the holes. Watch the video i posted up there ^. And it explains it perfectly  

There's a good video on how to make it

2" holes yes they can get their whole head in

I wired mine in between the gaps of my 1x4s I made the coop out of

Here's a good video on YouTube. I made my barrier out of cardboard I glued to the inside of the feeder pipe. The elbow I had has a lip that won't allow the pipe to go that far down like the video.

After going thru different designs I've seen on this great site. I decided to make my own with a couple ideas from others. I got 4" thin wall pipe with a 90 and two caps. Glued a piece of cardboard inside the upright pipe that holds the feed about 1/2 inside the "feeder" pipe so it would only...

Finally no more food everywhere! My new 4" pipe feeder. The girls were very confused at first but I dropped a few millworms in and whala.

I get all my chickens from the same breeder. They are 10 weeks old now. Started with barred rocks then got 2 more gsl. 2 br's and 1 gsl got killed so we now have 2 gsl 2 brown leghorns And 2 Dominique's She was out of the barred so we decided to mix it up lol

A little over a month. Only 1 travesty from free ranging them, but it was enough to make me do something

Well after debating closed run or not I decided I was more worried about keeping them in there "place". It's not hawk proof but we haven't had a lot of problems with hawks. They can also hide under or in their coop. They have ample shade. Let me know what you think I ran the same fencing we...

I have been free ranging my chickens as I live on 200 acres. The one acre around my house is fenced in with this Which the chickens cannot get thru except in a couple spots which I am going to fix. I was thinking of building them a smaller fenced in area(run) using the existing corner of my...

Thank you for the advice. I guess I will just bite the bullet and make them a true run. All of your reasons make perfect since. I am a first time chicken owner, I know they will still be happy outside in the run, but I just wanted to see of I could make the free ranging work. I will still...

I recently had my first ever attack. Something got 4 of my 6 chickens that I free ranged so I am going to do what I said I wasn't and make them a so called run. I live on 200 acres but my house on one acre fenced in with small gap welded wire. The problem is the 9 week olds that I have and am...