Recent content by Marce705

I love the free range together idea though and multiple food and water areas... that works great... I don't always have the time to watch them free range together for several days.

I found that putting them in a large dog crate for a day or so inside the coop then putting them in loose with the main flock at night works well. Very little drama. Turning them loose with the others has to be done at night though....If not YIKES!!

Molting does affect their laying though. I was getting between 8 and 12 eggs a day...down to 5 or 6 with a few of them molting. I cant wait until they're done ... it looks like nobody loves them.

Very cool. I ordered some the other day.., should be in the mail very soon. My poor naked headed girls. UGH. Thanks for the suggestions OXOXO

When my chicks arrived they really didn't want any treats...I tried yogurt, eggs, berries...after about a week they liked crickets...yep live ones. It was a riot watching them run around after them. Their baby food gives them everything they need though. As much as I wanted to give them every...

SUCCESS!!!!!! 10 EGGS AND SOME VERY FRUSTRATED HENS. Roll away nest boxes worked for me!! Now if the chicken saddles work, life will be good.

thanks for the blue trick..this ought to be funny...meh... I am very lucky to have a wickedly talented boyfriend who happens to own a welding shop who modified the nest boxes I had. Really simple..ish.. cost me about 13 bucks. We /he knocked the front off of nest boxes, cut them in half and...

I've been battling egg eaters as well. I swear they all do it. Mostly my Aricaunas...I love them but they're making me nuts. I was getting between 9-12 eggs a day all winter from 13 hens. Now I'm lucky to get 2. We spent hours making roll away nest boxes. ( I found them online for like $65...

Yeah....I thought of that after I disposed of her body. I was pretty upset. Thanks very much.

Thanks very much. Actually I had been out with them all day...doing a little spruce up in the coop. (new dust bath, new shavings, new hay in the nest boxes. I let them run loose for a while and she was running around like the rest of them. She flew up to the top of the coop and was flapping...

So yesterday I went out to collect eggs and I found my 11 month old Blue Andelusian dead on the floor of the coop. She had seemed fine 20 minutes earlier. I had them out with me in the yard. No sign if anything wrong at all. Any ideas? Is something going around? I live in East Haddam.

A few of mine were sleeping outside in the run, when the weather got below 40 I would go out every night and put them in and close the door. Now they're going in on their own. Some of my chickens are really NOT BRIGHT. I don't think they should be out in the cold at night. They snuggle up...

Best of luck with that. I'll be thinking of you.

what did you have to do? I have a bunch of pullets laying...I think this is one that I need to know. Thanks!!