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Hello and thanks, everyone! I always thought wood working was something complex, but I guess I was wrong! I never thought of a wood chisel - I'll start using it too. Thanks for the websites. DH also don't want me using power tools. Thanks for the instructions! I'll start doing projects for my...

Hello I have seen nice pictures of the Coop Design section of this site and I want to do some wood working of my own for my chickens. But I don't have any experience in carpentry! We have lots of old wood in our shed, but I don't know how to use them. I don't know how to make complex cuts on...

Hello Sorry if I posted this gardening question here, but here goes! I'm planning to set up a backyard vegetable garden to save some money and to have fresh, delicious greens. I will build a large fence with a wire roof to prevent the chickens from breaking in. I would like to plant some...

My broody hen hurts its baby,when she scratches the soil she also:smacksratches its baby.The cute chick:jumpyis also so thin baby always falling onto the ground,the chick is so poor:hide,I tried to get the chick but broody hen:cd almost peck me:somad.So what should I do?

Thank you everyone! I'll give her another day to sit on her eggs. I hope the eggs are alive........ Yes, I am looking forward to putting her and her nest in the quarantine coop, but I'm afraid that she might not sit on the eggs anymore if I do it early. I'll just wait until the eggs hatch or...

Hello In the last several weeks our hen Danica became broody so we decided to put 4 eggs of my other hens under her. Just yesterday we found a little chick chirping about under her, but she is still sitting on the nest. The 3 eggs are not yet hatched. I was planning to put her inside a small...

Hello We are planning to make a summer chicken run for the chickens during the hot season. But unfortunately I do not know how......... Can you help me? A very basic, large, enclosed rectangular frame made of wood and hardware cloth would do. I am a real newbie in the carpentry world, do you...

Thanks for the replies everyone! Unfortunately we do not have wooden snow fence here in our place, but still thank you very much. I might be able to do Akane's method - cheap, simple and easy enough for me. I'll look for the fiberglass rods in the stores, we have lots of mesh in our house. But...

Hello, there! I am planning to start a small vegetable garden in my backyard, but the yard is home to free-range chickens. According to some sources, chickens will destroy all the plants in their path. A fence around the garden patch would be handy to keep the chickens away, but I want a...

Very cute chicks! Congratulations! Sorry for the loss, but be happy! You got lots of chicks! That silkie chick looks adorable. My guess is the peanut ones might be Rhode Island Reds or New Hampshire Reds. I have New Hampshire Reds and they look similar to those chicks, but they might be...

Thank you for the replies, everyone! I just noticed that when we moved her to the coop, she has 12 eggs under her, so no need to add more eggs. But I have another problem: When she was now in the coop she was panicking all around and not minding the eggs in the nest box. She is now in the run...

Hello We have a native hen named Danica that suddenly visited our backyard and decided to call it home. She's a nervous chicken, but last week she suddenly disappeared. My daughter said she saw Danica, but angry and clucking all the time. One day we spotted her pecking at the yard, and we...

My hens also get pasty butts in the rainy season here in the Philippines, but when I clean their butts up it doesn't get dirty anymore. Yes, Sunshine might have Diarreha(stop giving her veggie treats for a while and feed oatmeal). As to bietsch624, the same thing happened to me. My little hen...

What a lucky roo! a single rooster can fertilize 10 hens well. He could take on the entire flock of 28, but do not expect an extreme amount of fertile eggs(at least that's what I heard). If you would like to give the ladies a roo to keep them "company", the roo would be very happy to do so, but...

He/she is a beautiful bird. It looks like a pullet; I noticed on my chicks that as early as 1 month their combs are already a bit big, and they turn to be roosters. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's a pullet. I also have a technique - when they are in their feathering stage, I look at...