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We are just located an hour north of Dallas/Ft Worth. Weather has been extremely mild the last few days. Highs in high 70's to low 80's, lows in high 50's to low 60's. All our chickens are laying, but yesterday was the first day we got 10 eggs from 10 chickens. We don't specifically provide...

Our chickens are 23 weeks old. They are free ranged most of the day. One of them tonight is really lethargic. We are chicken newbies...so don't know anything about anything. She is an ISA brown. Any ideas? Wife was dumping some old plants out of buckets and she said they were feasting on...

We have 10 ISA browns nearly 23 weeks old. We are getting 8 or 9 eggs every day. Not sure if we have one that is still to start laying. We are feeding the chickens starter/grower feed still, with oyster shell offered free choice. My understanding is that starter/grower feed is typically...

I like that. Thank you.

Great idea. Thank you. What is a thimble? On thinking though, the coop is going to be down in a grove of trees where pretty much any big wind will get broken. I may get by without it, but will decide when I get it all put together.

So how do you keep the ducks in the garden and the chickens out of it?

I have never had duck eggs. What is the difference? Do they lay as much as chickens? I have heard ducks are great at cleaning bugs off the garden without destroying it.

Thank you. Nice coop! Mine won't be that fancy. Seems like what I want to do will work.

How did you bolt it to the cinder blocks?

We eat a LOT of eggs, so if these chickens only gave us 3 eggs a day after the money we put into them they wouldn't be too popular with me! Lol! I never thought I would have enjoyed chickens so much though. They really are cool little creatures.

Oh wow! That's quite the variety. I just researched the best laying and best minded chickens and the ISA Browns seemed to rate up there highly. People seem to be pretty big on the Australorps too for both laying and nature, and since I am originally from Australia I figured I need to support...

What breed of chickens did you get? What part of the country are you in?

Where did you end up ordering from? We went online through Tractor Supply and who use Hoover Hatchery. I think it cost just under $4/chicken, shipping included.

How come it took 3 months? We order online mid April and had ours in a few days. We got 10 ISA Browns. When the coop is up I am going to order some Australorps as well.

Thank you. We weren't so smart and got the chickens first! I had no idea what a task it is for a non builder to even design the coop how I want it. It is one thing to look at what other people have done...it is another thing to figure out the required building materials and how you are going...