Thanks! Just on a learning curve here and thought I had posted incorrectly. I'm a third grade teacher and farm wife from South Dakota. We raise beef cattle and have been learning the art of raising laying hens and butcher chickens for about 5 years now.
Thanks for the reply! Our coop is actually a small barn about the size of a double garage. It is divided into two sides. One side is chickens, the other side is empty right now, but is sometimes home to a few baby beef calves. I found my straggler last night roosting in the empty side. Our dog...
I got 13 baby chicks in April. Now, it is almost August, they are free ranging every afternoon. In the evenings, 12 of the chickens go in to the coop and I shut them in for the night. I can never find number 13 until I see her roaming the yard the next morning. I do have one rooster in the...
