Hey everyone. Just finished converting our older shed into a coop for our new girls. I still need to put in the roosts though, and am looking for advice on configuration. In my last coop, which was about 4x as large as this one, I did the roosts all at the same height and parallel to each...
I'm anxious to see how Chicken Little develops. I purchased four mixed breed chicks from our local feed store back in early February. One of the chicks, a barred rock, has not grown at all. She has feathered out and seems to eat and drink okay, but she just won't grow. Two weeks after we got...
Hey everyone! We have two brooder boxes going at the moment. The first one has four 4 week old chicks. They include one each Easter Egger, Wyandotte, Speckled Sussex, and a Barred Rock. The other brooder has two 2 week old Salmon Faverolles.
The problem we are having is that in the mixed...
These are pictures of my chicken coop in Spokane. I had never built anything like this before...so I think I did pretty good! I did all the work myself too!
This is the before photo. It was an old shelter/feed stall for a horse. I ripped out all the "insides" so I could start with a hollow...
Our relocation to PDX is moving along great! We should be there by April 2nd. We were in town this past weekend looking for a rental property and we found a great house in Beaverton! It's not as convenient to downtown (or to work) as we would have liked, but the house was too nice to pass up...
Thanks for the info!!!
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I live in Vancouver and I love it here!!! The laws in city are no roo's and according to the guy in charge there is no limit on pullets, the only problem is if they have complaints, whether for noise or smells. So long as you keep it clean and take care of...
It's Official! We are moving to Portland at the end of next month! Not only am I looking forward to having chickens again, but I am excited to have trees, fresh air, and friendly neighbors again! Now the search for a place begins. We want to rent for a year before we decide where we want to...
Here's my very first attemp to build a coop. I didn't really have any "plans", just some rough sketches that I did.
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I am not new to BYC, but have been MIA for almost 2 years! I movedfrom Spokane WA to Long Beach CA and, of course, had to re-home my flock of 32 chickens!
I have been missing them ever since, and even though Long Beach allows 1 chicken per household (weird), I have been sans...
I had the same problem as futurefarmer08. I had to go to a job interview and the one chick was struggling. The first one zipped out so fast I would have missed it if I had not gone into the bator room at that exact moment. But the other chick just couldn't seem to get out of the shell. It...
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If they did well for 6 weeks whatever they died from wasn't the hatchery's fault. They delivered healthy chicks to you which was all they were responsible for. I don't know of any hatchery that guarantees anything beyond live delivery.
It actually DOES sound like AE, although most of...