Recent content by Humboldter

Today I joined this site, but have lurked on it in the past, and have found this forum to be very helpful. Our family started raising chickens during the summer of 2011 with a flock of 10 orps buff hens. We added an austrolope and raised 3 silkies from chicks (all turned out ot be males!). We...

We live in rural northern CA and have been dealing with rats for about a year. They've dug a system of tunnels under our hen house and coop. We laid hardware cloth on hen house floor and over ground in the coop area. Also put feeders away at night in metal garbage can. About once a month I will...