i know hens need to establish a pecking order but this is worrying me. I origionally had two hens, an Ameracuana and Rhode Island Red. The two new hens are Jersy giant x's and bigger than the first two hens. When I pit them in the coop (i don't have room to keep them seperate) the rhode...
Tried to keep them out but all they did was try to get back in. I figured I'd rather let them rest on something cool than having them try to figure out how to get back in with the heat.
We had a week of 111 . I made shade with some old boards we had lying around and ran a box fan out to the run making sure it was blowing into the shady part. I froze water in plastic food containers which works like frozen water bottles and gives your chickens something cool to drink when it...
They're white on both sides. I can't touch them because she was already pretty old when I got her from the hatchery and so she is a bit skittish around people. She's way better now than she was at first though.
I am getting chickens soon. I have a few things to do to the backyard before I start getting a coop put together. I was planning on putting a coop in our old chain link dog kennel. The kennel is 10x10. My only concern is keeping the dogs out! We have a black lab and a springer spaniel...