Recent content by shawnarcm

This is my first winter with chickens. I live in North Texas and have been having the same annoying problem with a ton of honey bees all around and in my chicken feed. The chickens don't seem to mind it as much as I do. I also feed mine the Purina Flockraiser. I am just wondering if you...

thanks! just trying to figure the site all out. Im not very techy!

Thank you!

I have decided not to integrate them at night in the coop yet. I think the 2 young silkies need to get accustomed to being out there in the coop themselves first and maybe get a little older. They have been raised inside by themselves thus far until last night. They slept out in the new coop...

coop is just 4x5ft, with 4nesting boxes and roosting bar and pine shavings on the floor of it.

Thank you! So glad this is available for all my questions!

Thank You! this is nerve-recking!

I have read that so Ive been watching them in the daytime around our deck area. The golden's have just kind of been staying away from the silkies and same thing for the silkies. So last night I let the silkies sleep in the new coop and my husband put the Goldens back in our barn where we have...

Hi Anne, I just joined today and we are about to put our few month old 2 white Silkies outside in their coop. Ive been hesitant to do it yet because our weather in North Texas has been so crazy here and its been anywhere from the 30's to the 80's and I have been raising them inside since I got...

Hi from north Texas, I am a fairly new chicken owner/lover since last easter time. We got 4 golden sexlinks then and recently got 2 white silkies. We just had a run made for them and put a new coup in it so we can move the Goldens out of the barn (they free range most days but we put in coop n...