yep are you de spurring your roosters that can help and just keep chicks separate in area they can see them but not get to them ....eventually they just accept new ones
first coop we built with house and run and put wheels on it so we could move around yard as they wipe out the grass under it quickly fairly simple was great idea and even moved it around with my atv but after a few years and about up to 55 chickens just use it for new hatchlings and moms put...
nope the chickens are staying closer since I put out the new peeps but the guineas free range lay but I know where their nests are and check them daily....chickens have always laid in their boxes or coops they never have free range laid they are out by 7 am but always put themselves up by 6pm...
The solar motion light has to be within certain distance since we have the coop a good ways from house we have two in different directions and heights to cover the area...grant it if the bear wants them no amount of anything will stop it except a lead pill. We had a piglet we had to put in...
we have plenty of daylight here still but guess they really pissed off I let them free range during day but now most hide in house except for the older ones that are marching around new birds pen. I coax them out with mealy worms but they head back in coop afterwards. Just was surprised at their...