Recent content by steveb1475

Thanks everyone! This site is a great resource and I'm looking forward to getting to know you all!

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and new to the chicken world. We've wanted to have chickens for quite a while and finally got a house with a yard big enough last year (the wife wants bees next year). Here is a thread with our birds, somehow we ended up with no roosters according to the more...

Thanks again for the advice. I do worry about it being too tight in the coop, especially during the winter, but right now they are rarely all in there at the same time except at night and there is ample space for them all to roost. When I say that that they are in the yard, I mean our backyard...

Thanks a lot everyone. What are the odds of picking all pullets? The coop 36 sf and the run is twice that. They are out in the yard all day until they put themselves in for the night. Think it will be too tight with 12? I've read 3-4 sf per bird?

Thanks Chris! Any idea of the sex?

Hi all, We decided to get chickens this year after moving into a *new house with a big enough yard. I built a coop sized for about 8 chickens and bought a variety of a dozen chicks assuming that we would end up with some roosters. They are about 12-14 weeks old and I haven't heard a crow...