Backstory,
My 3 year old buff woud go broody every 6 months, so I got some buff eggs on line (no roosters) and slipped them under her. 4 of 10 hatched. We have done nothing other than put out chick food. Mom did a good job. The chicks have been walking the yard with mom since 2 days old. If...
Ok, I will admit we went all out with getting chickens. I wanted them to be as easy as possible and have a coop and run where we could go away for a couple weeks and they would be fine.
We purchased a coop on line for about $400. It had one damaged part and I complained and they sent an entire...
we have a automatic coop door, a 20 lb feeder, and an automatic water system with nipples and a toilet valve in the blue cooler. all I do is collect eggs,fill the feeder every couple weeks and clean the coop/runn once a month. Chickens have been simple pets.
Hi,
Curt and Denise from San Jose CA here. We are new to chickens. We got our little flock of three as chicks last May. We have a Buff Orphington (Elizabeth), a Barred Rock (Diana), and a Black Ostralorp (Kate). They all started laying about Oct -Nov and have been laying through their first...