Recent content by roberthleeii

I am planning a Carolina Coops style build and I am stuck on my nesting box design. It does not seem that the Carolina coop nesting boxes design has enough ventilation especially if a hen goes broody and is going to sit in there for a month. I do not have much experience with broody hens and it...

Does keeping black chickens help protect from hawks? I am getting ready to do a major flock expansion this summer as I built my ultimate chicken coop. I read on a couple of places that black birds / crows are enemies of hawks typically scare the hawks away and that the hawks confuse black...

Can I have multiple chicken coops on one property while free ranging them? I was planning on building a large coop and run suitable for 30+ birds but then thought about doing something a little different and making 2-4 smaller coop/runs that can support 8-15 each. My chickens are mostly free...

Chicken math got to me… I got a free coop from a coworker and decided it would be nice to have 3 or 4 chickens… I am up to 7 and the poorly designed free coop is struggling to sustain them. I have decided that I would like around 15 chickens so of course I probably need to build a coop big...

Ok. Thank you.

Thank you! How do you know. I am new to chickens and find it hard to understand the terminology and identifying characteristics, I start getting confused when I am reading about this.

is there any way to see if this chicken is a hen or roster? its about 3 months old.

I am trying to find a way to build a coop in my yard but have them free range in the pasture across the boundary fence to our back pasture. I live on 5 acres where the front two have our houses, shop, and barn and the back 3 are basically a pasture with trees and a pond. I have my temporary...

I just started raising chickens about a month ago. I have wanted chickens for years and finally made the plunge this summer. I moved to 5 acres in the spring of 2020 (right in the middle of “2 weeks to stop the spread”) and intended to get chickens to go with our horses and goats but never got...