Recent content by StevenW
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Help needed. New chickens not going into new coop at night. Airlifting 36 chickens is exhausting!
I have to keep them shut up in the coop for three days and nights. After that I have only had one or two problem chickens the rest come in every night- StevenW
- Post #53
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Do You Guys Have a "Dream Chicken" or "Dream Flock"?
I am stuck on Rhode Island Reds, Wyandotte’s, and Golden Comets, plus I always keep one Americauna because they seem to make the best Mommies when teaching chicks!- StevenW
- Post #44
- Forum: General breed discussions & FAQ
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What is Your Favorite Word to Describe Your Flock?
Ladies Or bitches, LOL most are gentle, loveable ladies.....a couple of my hens are definitely bitches!- StevenW
- Post #163
- Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Flock
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Do Chickens eat Chiggers?
When I bought my hobby farm it was so overrun with chiggers I couldn’t go outside without getting tore up by them. A dozen hens and a year and I rarely get chigger bites anymore. My hens absolutely do eat them- StevenW
- Post #18
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Treating your Chickens?
I have a dozen mixed hens and a rooster. I give them a couple of handfuls of meal worms daily, bread, bits of fruit, and when its cold raw oatmeal. Sometimes I hang a full head of cabbage from a bungee cord and they love that. My hens are healthy as can be, and I get 6-7 eggs every day...even...- StevenW
- Post #24
- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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Putting a "Property Damage" Price on Layers
If the owner won't do anything about his dog...call animal control everytime its found on your property. The fines alone should discourage him from letting his chicken killer "free range". If that doesn't work......I would end that dog.- StevenW
- Post #45
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Heat lamp thoughts!
they will roost near it, never been a problem.- StevenW
- Post #40
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Heat lamp thoughts!
it stays around 40-45 degrees in there when the temps are 20ish....- StevenW
- Post #39
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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If you could add two chickens to your backyard flock what would they be?
one more Americauna, and another Rhode Island Red.....no reason, I just like em'- StevenW
- Post #30
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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Heat lamp thoughts!
I keep 6 hens, in the mountains of N. Georgia where January nights are in the low 20's and colder. I have a heat lamp which I mounted on a piece of 2x4 so it is halfway between the floor and the roof and halfway between the walls, right in the center of the coop. Coop is 8 feet long, 4 feet...- StevenW
- Post #36
- Forum: Managing Your Flock
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The waste! Oh the wasted feed...
I used to fill a large feeder and hang it in the coop, they would waste 1/2 of it. Now I daily give them about what they can eat in a day, and the mess is greatly reduced. They act like dogs....if there is a lot of food, they eat what they want, then toss it all over the place otherwise..- StevenW
- Post #48
- Forum: Feeding & Watering Your Flock
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What kinds of Predators have taken your birds?
I've lost 1 girl to a hawk, 2 to raccoons and 2 to a family dog when they decided to fly over the 6 foot fence around the dog kennel so they could investigate that area...the rest of our girls all die of old age.- StevenW
- Post #67
- Forum: Predators and Pests
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Normal Flock Size?
for myself and my wife, 5 hens is perfect. we only eat eggs on the weekends, and give the extras to our son who lives nearby. they are kept in a coop attached to a "dog kennel" which is covered with poultry wire, and are allowed to free range daily. We get (usually) 3-4 eggs a day, unless we...- StevenW
- Post #204
- Forum: Managing Your Flock