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You will need a coop to accommodate 25 hens, mine are ISA brown hens that lay brown eggs about 300 per year and only one egg a day. You will need a coop this size: 100 square foot, like 25 x 25 feet. Four sq. feet per chicken. Also a roost and 6 egg boxes, ( 1 box per 4 chickens) Be sure...

Yes you can put grass clippings in your run, but don't put too much as grass clippings start molding if in a pile and you don't want to put too much at a time as the hens need to eat their layer feed so they get enough nutrients to lay eggs, or they may not lay good.

My coop is ground level with attached run to coop, if it rains, they go back into the coop, they can come and go if it gets too hot outside.

There is one other solution We bought a Pet Safe fenceless dog trainer. You put a collar on your dog that is controlled by a main station. It is adjustable to so many feet from your house. Say, 60 feet diameter. The dog will get use to the area. If it goes outside the diameter, then they...

I made some fake eggs by taking a plastic easter egg, putting sand in it and glueing the egg shut, then painted it a tan color to match the egg color they were laying. I can tell they peck at it and some of the paint comes off. Mostly, I was in the coop when they lay their eggs and caught a...

when you close the coop up at night, put him in a separate cage just for the night and see what happens in the morning when you take him out.

Put up styrofoam under the metal roof, it will insulate for loss of heat. Put vents in the walls, one on each side, then you can limit the air coming in across the coop, on cold nights, close the vents. Should put in a vent that is optional for opening. We also put in windows that we can open...

You could build a good coop out of waferboard but put a double wall in it. We have an 8x8 coop with insulated with syrofoam ceiling. We have 15 chickens with 6 laying boxes in the coop and a roost. We also put in two double insulated windows for sunlight. It works well, we are up in northern...

Don't give them to the chickens to eat, you will cause them to start breaking the other eggs in the nest and eating them. Some maybe rotten, so just throw them out. Apparently, your chickens are running loose with no enclosed yard, time to put a yard fence up.

I have 13 chickens. I put the cage in the building next to the coop.

I'm in the process now of trying to see which chickens are laying. I put a chicken in a separate cage for 24 hours with food and water. Then the next day, I take it out. If the chicken laid an egg in the cage, I double band it with a small zip tie on both legs, if the chicken didn't lay an...

You could get a small cage and put the chicken in it with food and water overnight and if the the chicken lays an egg within the 24 hour period, you know that she lays, then put a small tie around her leg to mark her.

I have 14 chickens and they are laying about 6-7 eggs a day. Every day I find an egg that is broken and eaten. How do I figure out what hen did it?

I wouldn't feed them mice, first all they may have parasites and worms in them and second, they may have gotten into mouse poison.

You can take your older hens and butcher them and can them in jars after you cut them up. The meat is tender as it has been pressure canned. Use it in casseroles or soups, very good. I take the skins off so there isn't fat when you can them.