Recent content by mikecoen

I've been using a 4x8 chicken tractor for 7 hens and I think I'd like to do more to free them. However, when I have let them out, they have made quite a mess of things where we have areas mulched, so I would have to fence off an area that is ok and then let them have at the garden and cornfield...

we had been using a light to extend the day from just before sunset until 10:30 pm. Egg production went down to one or two eggs per day for 8 Americauna hens just less than a year old. We heard the light should come on early in the morning, so we switched our timer over to come on about 1 am...

10 EE's are loving their pasturizing by means of the chicken tractor. only 32 square feet on the ground and they thrash it pretty well before being moved even if I move it more than the usual once a day. Their hen house barn over one end is only 12 square feet but they all roost themselves up...

just installed a garage door on my newly built passive solar shop. Door was only half opened and I had stopped it for adjustments when I changed my plans suddenly and decided to back my 4x4 picup and overhead lumber rack out of the door. Big crash. Called the overhead door people to bring out...

We got a couple of dozen chickens, sold all but 10 since Valentine's Day. Keep finding idioms based on chickens and they crack us up (Maybe that is a chicken idiom too?) Finally got some rain here in Colorado and remembered "mad as a wet hen" then nearly ran over some in their own chicken...

we have 10 pullets almost 3 months old and they now roam and roost in their 4x8 tractor with a 10 square foot barn/henhouse up over one end. They get moved once or twice a day and seem to drain their one gallon waterer and eat or waste about half a cup of starter crumbles on top of what they...

sorry to hear about your loss. we had 27 chix, one exotic free one from murray mcmurray hatchery. First day the exotic chick drowned in a half inch of water on the rim of the chick waterer! we were so saddened. we used purina medicated chick starter and all the others thrived, now 9 weeks...

second bird is pecked the same way. Several other birds will peck them on this spot above the tail and they turn around and peck themselves there! There is a little blood too. Someone at the feed store said it may be time for molting. Really, they just got these feathers, they are only 9...

I have 10 pullets all raised together since Valentine's Day. They have a coop and a tractor which they now get out in every day. Both are 4x8. They get Purina crumbles, not medicated now as at first. They've been out only this past week and love the grass and whatever, thrashing a new 4x8...

EE or Ameraucana chiks are now 8 weeks old, they seem to be all pullets. They have no combs yet. None crow. They don't cluck much yet unless they are really startled; they mostly still peep. Very healthy, curious, soon to be tried out in the chicken tractor but out of the weather in their...

My chicks were born February 12th so they are coming up on 2 months old this week. they are americaunas and all look the same, none seem to be roosters. I had bought 2 as straight run and thought at least one would be a rooster. I'm wondering if I have all pullets or if it is too early to...

our 10 ameracauna pullets are still developing nicely and are in their outside coop. I can't seem to post a photo now but sometime I'll show you the chicken tractor for nice weather so the hens and graze the pasture 32 square feet at a time. These are our first chickens so we will appreciate...