Recent content by MichellesChickens

Evening, my two flocks were combined about a month ago and for the very most part are getting along. Lost one to a hawk a little over a week ago, so the rest aren't currently happy with me, went from free ranging afternoon/evenings to having to stay in the run.

Mistype on my part "More damp, then went like that." that should have read "more damp then wet". I've been thinking the advice to re dig it is best. Just have to figure out what to use for that, don't have a tiller.

More damp, then went like that. I think some of it is the soil my husband added last year, that makes it slippery.

Would say it leans toward clay, but my husband did add some fresh top soil to it last year that gets extra slippery, I have shoveled much of that out. Seems to stay somewhat damp on the top, but no standing water except where the girls have dug dust bath spots. In the winter it doesn't get much...

My outside chicken runs are currently just dirt with some small stone, just what was there before I had chickens. There is currently no roof over it, did tell my husband I would like a roof over it before summer is over. In the mean time what would be a good ground cover to help control spring...

Sand like kids play sand? Ash from the wood burner?

The new chickens have been here a week today. So now I have two almost matching chicken coops with 2 separate flocks of chickens, until they can be together. Each coop has an inside run, then the coop with nest boxes and perches, both areas are inside my barn, then each one has an outside run...

Thanks, yes those are Sapphire Gems.

The new flock of 9 girls that arrived last night seem to be settling in, I did get one egg today so far. Once they have had time to get comfortable here with their new home, us and the other chickens, I'll combine the two coops into one. My current flock of 7 gets to free range whenever we are...

I checked today and they are 13" and 28", the girls in the other coop sleep on the high one. The new girls did indeed sleep on the floor all night. They did check out the nest boxes today and rearranged the straw in all 4 of them and one even laid an egg.

My 9 new girls arrived today, he said they are about 2 yrs old. He said when he got them when they were about 6 mths, they didn't have perches, so even though he built them one, they preferred to either sleep on the ground or in the nest boxes. We put perches in the same height as my other coop...

Thank you. There is plenty of room in the current coop and runs for all the chickens. I used to have a larger flock until they all passed of old age. I thought I was done having chickens, but then these 7 became available and my husband really wanted chickens, so I gave in. My husband is down to...

Thanks, I never thought of horse bedding pellets, I'll look into them.

I currently have 7 hens, all same breed. They have their coop where they sleep and have nest boxes, which is inside my barn, on one end of that is an inside run for when they don't want to be outside, other end has a door to outside where they have a much bigger outside run. They free range in...

My flock has been naturally downsizing over the last few years. For well over a year I've just had 2 older hens. Once passed yesterday and now I feel bad for the lone girl. She's around 10ish years old. I see her walking around by herself now and wonder if I should get her a friend or two? I...