Recent content by Floralpicker

My husband built me a very nice big coop and run this spring. Our chickens started laying in mid August and all was well. We were getting about 12 eggs a day from our 16 hens of different varieties. The last week or so we have only been getting around 6 eggs so we started looking around and...

I have never heard of, or seen any weasels here, but I guess there could be some :( We are in N.E. Oregon, pretty cold in the winter. I searched the perimeter of the coop and cannot find the slightest of any holes, cracks etc. I am stumped.

I am hoping someone on here can help me, my chicks are 7 weeks old and out in the coop and run my husband made. I went out in the afternoon to check on them last week and one of the chicks was dead, only the head gone. I thought my cat had gotten in there so I secured the top pretty well in...

Hi everyone, we are I the process of building our coop, it is 8x12. How many vents should there be, and in which direction eg. North-south ends, or east-west? Also, there are a couple of 20 foot trees in our run, my husband has plans to seal the wire on the roof of the run around the tree to...

Screening the end is a great idea! That will be a necessity I'm thinking. I don't think we have minks in eastern Oregon. We have raccoons, skunks, coyotes, and LOTs of hawks. I have a diligent yellow lab but he is the "inside-queen-bed-sleeping" type so he wont be much use at night. He...

Hello! This may seem like a silly question, but we are trying to figure out the placement for our new coop and watering in the winter when everything is frozen always is a problem. All of our pastures are situated where the ends of them access our creek. It is a warm spring creek and never...

I'm new here, but it seems chicken math is closely related strain of fabric stashes, LOL. I have closets FULL of fabric stashes, for that next project that only gets half done because the weather gets good and I don't want to be inside. So my DH and I went to town today to get a 6 chicks, and...

Cove here, real small town east of La Grande!

Hi everyone, Im a "New Chick" to this website, what a wealth of information!!! We had chickens 15 years ago before we moved to Eastern Oregon and I loved them, but moving over here we were afraid of the cold winters and the predators and so we never got around to keeping a flock again. But...