I have three adults that were Adopted when a Gent I know decide feed cost too much... one of these three has been scarce... it seems to like dissappearing... three times I tried to follow it and lost it... now I know where it is ... in a Flower patch , dead center on a nest.... bird looked right...
I went out and grabbed 2 6 foot sections of cyclone & wired em together where now they are 10 feet apart for awhile & added a couple wire crates for the New Veterans till I can build them a Mini coop until the Young uns are older... TY for Your Input.
Ok , TY , I will do a make shift box for the 3 in the dog run.... but is use of the grassy area surrounding the coop while the 12 are in the coop closed up in shifts ? or is a quara
ntine the rule?
mine are all less than 3 months I bought em in April... and am just now getting the coop closed in calked & roofed & Hardware clothed... its enclosed by Cyclone Panels as is the Older Dog Pen wich is a wood decking with cyclone... a gate separates them ....
i didnt say it but my 12 are all young ... not laying yet.... I bought them in early April... & this was their first weekend out of the mud room in the coop run area...
Mixing the Ages/Flocks??? Advice Please...A Friend who is getting out of it... complaining about feed cost... ( I told him I d take a few he could come visit ) gave me 3 Hens all older than my flock of 12 chicks & roos which...