Recent content by Rosaleen

I think they would be fine, of course with proper supervision especially if there is no mother hen to keep them in line. This spring I purchased more chicks and put them under 5 different broody hens. Within days, they had the chicks exploring outside and it was much cooler than 85 degrees...

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Am I the only one who puts store bought chicks under broody hens? What's your experiences? I had three cochin bantams crammed in a nesting box sitting on four eggs. One hatched and they all stayed in the box so I picked up 6 chicks from the grain store, moved one of the hens and chick and...

Living in northern Vermont, below zero temps are not uncommon. We never had a heat lamp in our coop and the chickies did just fine. Last year I acquired a great chicken coop. It was built by a carpenter who really didn't know much about chickens. I redesigned the inside to better suit the...

Something else to think about...Last year I bought a pair of solar powered lanterns (they look like hanging carriage lanterns)from Home Depot which include shepherds' hook...about $30. for the pair. The lanterns have rings at the top so they can be hung from anything. The windows in my coop...

I have 5 Nigerian Dwarf goats, 17 chickens and one horse. In fair weather, they all free range together within my acreage. The first place the goats check out of course is the chicken coop so I hang the feeder out of goat range but where the chickens can still access their food. This time of...

I always put old hay out after each snowfall. I save the hay I sweep up in the barn and store it in old plastic trash bins throughout the barn. It's too dusty to give to the horse or goats so I save it for snowy days around the coop. In the spring I rake it all up and deposit it into the...

I have a black Cochin bantam hen that hatched out 14 adorable chicks. I know all three roosters bred with her. The chicks are two and a half weeks old and I can see evidence of at least two of the roos, one is a frizzle and there are a few chicks with frizzle feathers. Another rooster is a...

My bantam Cochin is mama to fourteen chicks. They are two weeks old now and have been free ranging since they were three days old. The funny thing is they also have another mama, my white silkie has taken to being their mama as well. She follows them around and let's them sit under her for...

We have always coexisted with the wild-life around our land...yes...including the occasional moose that barrels through our horse fence. Lately, Mr. ( or Mrs. Bear) have been visiting our land most mornings. There is no food around, although I do have a grain feeder inside the coop...I never...

My broody bantam Cochin has been sitting on about 14 eggs for two weeks now...funny to see her flatten out to cover all the eggs. Also have a bear visiting almost every morning...I thought the deer and moose were enough, now more frequent visits by the bear. We've always had a lot of wild-life...

Thanks so much for the info!

I have seen on several posts where coops were built using preformed footings for the 4 x 4 to sit on, (no concrete). I don't know what they are called but I am interested in purchasing some for a porch we are going to build. If anyone here in BYC land has used these, please let me know what...

I have 6 bantams and one standard sized buff Orp on a 4 foot roost...you can see them on page 29 (#284) on this thread...even though I have two roosts in one section and three roosts in the other, at night they all roost on this one.