Recent content by tamsteve143

Hello my hen just all of a sudden started acting funny, we thought she was egg blind but that wasn’t the case after examining her we saw her crop was huge so assumed it was impacted crop, we seperated her and she has drank electrolytes and saturday we picked her up and she threw up a lot she is...

I have 15 week old pullets that have been running with the adult hens all day for over 2 weeks now, not to much drama but the ordinary chasing and plucking that they do and the adult ones stay to themselves and the young ones to themselves but the babies have been in a transition coop, they have...

They are 11 weeks old, sad lesson learned, I lost one, snake got it i'm thinking, her head was wet but he couldn't get the rest of her down....hate when i get attached and I feel like I shoukld have known because there was a snake a few weeks ago and I should have frickin known better or put...

Hello I was reading your thread when you had chicks with adult hens. I have 11 week old chicks, they have been in the utility room in a big dog crate...The last 2 weeks I bring them outside all day in a gate see and no touch area with the older hens, last two days I have opened up the gate and...

Our new chicks, 10 weeks, have been in a dog crate, last night was their first night we put them in the big coop, divided so the big hens can't hurt them, they cried last night but got over it, tonight we went to put them in and it was so hard, they didn't even want to come out the carrier, were...

My chicks are 10 weeks old and last night was the first time I put them in the bottom of the big hen's coop, I have it wired off, they weren't to happy all piled up on top of eachother by the door, is this normal? I felt so bad lol. We have a small coop with a small run that they stay in during...

I wish we had a coop big enough to do this, it sure would have been easier. They have all seen eachother from a distance but now I need to start putting them in the big run in a dog kennel so they can really see eachother...hope my old girls won't be to hard on them.

Yes we have a big coop but not big enough to have a section off for the young ones and we have a huge run but I have 5 yr old hens so have to introduce them slowly from what I’m told. The temporary coop will be inside our run and we will just use it for a quarantine coop eventually once they...

I have seven 8 week old chicks, they are in a dog crate and we ordered a temporary coop for them, until they are big enough to go in the big coop with the adults, I'm a nervous wreck thinking of them going out in their new coop LOL I bring them outside everyday in a pen to get some fresh air but...

I have seven week old chicks and ran out of feed, which we have been feeding them start & Grow non medicated food, well my store only has the medicated food is it ok to give them?

we have a tunnel that goes from the small run where the coop is to the big run, I can divide the big run, i was actually going to buy a small coop for that purpose and put it in the big run until we put them all together with the big hens. right now the chicks are in a big dog crate inside a...

The coop itself isn’t that big to divide it up for the babies hubby built the coop and run

I have 7 week old chicks, seven of them, I have 4 adult hens that are 4 yrs old, of course the babies can't be put with the adult ones yet and they are outgrowing the dog crate in the utility room, I need some recommenditions on a coop to buy that is predator proof, don't want to spend alot. My...