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Those sound like good ideas. Will make a little mini pen inside pen. It sounds like it takes some time to introduce.

I received a two year old Barred Rock hen from a friend, and introduced it to my flock of five one year olds. Everything was fine for the first hour, then when I went out again to check, the new bird was in the corner with her head hidden into the corner of the pen. When I moved the other...

I went through the trouble of making three nesting boxes for my 5 hens, and they only use one. Every day 4 to 5 eggs in the same box. Every once in a blue moon is there an egg in a different box.

Pebbles hen Roaming the yard looking for the scratch Almost year old

Mine love the raw potato peelings, started with five still have five. Seem to be fine for my chickens

I just jumped on to see if anybody fed the chickens pumpkins. I have a bag full of carvings and pumpkin guts..

I used Tek Lathe screws. They don't require predrilling and they have a washer built into the screw head. Quick and easy, the box only cost 5 bucks for 120 of the screws..