Recent content by Daniek

That might work, however i don't really want to take out the neighbor's house also.

Yes, unfortunately, it was my 26yo son's dog.

Our first layer, Red, was a gentle bird that would perch on my wife's head. We lost her today after only 7 months, we raised her from a day old chick with 2 lakenvelders. (we started with 4 but my 2yo grandson got hold of one of the sexlinks the first week). It seems the dog had had enough and...

I have not been getting as many eggs lately that I thought I should be. Started looking around in a lot of places but did not find anything. Today I spotted a white egg (Lakenvelder) and lo and behold, I found a secret hidden nest, It had 3 brown eggs (sexlink) and 4 white ones. I figure the...

I have a girl in a similar situation, only she is 6 months old. Her sister (same breed) the same age has been laying for 4 weeks. I understand the layer feed issue but wondered how to get the other girls the calcium. So am I to understand that the girls laying are smart enough to eat the...

When my Red sexlink started laying it was one a day right away and during the first week she laid 2 in one day and even got a huge egg that was a double yolk. The eggs were small at first but have gotten bigger, On the other hand, I have 2 white lakenvelders, one of which started laying really...

I built a nice 4x6 coop for my three girls, 1 Red sexlink and 2 silver Lakenvelders, and got them into it. Red started laying in there before it was finished. Freckles finally started laying after we finished and moved them into it. Speckles has yet to start. All of a sudden we stopped getting...

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!! Our Red Sexlink started laying about 3-4 weeks ago, surprise! We then waited for the 2 lakenvelders to start. Well, yesterday one gave us a small little egg. Today it gave us another one. We are now waiting for the last one to start. All are supposedly the same age, bought...

Well, we finished it. We still have some finishing touches and fine tuning to do yet. We decided to put in 2 doors on opposite corners for easier cleaning. I figure with size ( 8×6 ) we can stuff 12 birds in there being how they free range, but only plan on having 6 at any one time. My only...

This will be a 4' x 6' house that can be broken down into 7 sections. We are doing it this way because we rent and will need to take it with us when we move, or sell it. The ends, with the nesting boxes and the other with the chicken door and ladder came from a 4' x 4' coop we bought and...

OK, I joined. I am a 58 yo man from the greater Portland area That has always wanted to chicken farm. My wife and I bought 4 chicks about 20 weeks ago, 2 red sex links and 2 because my daughter thought they were pretty. My wife was told they were lakenweldiers later. We lost one red very...