This may seem to be a silly question to some of you. I am pretty new to keeping chickens. We only have 3 hens. We had a red mite problem at the beginning of spring and took care of it and have not had a problem since. Well with all the leaves falling I started adding a lot of yard stuff in the...
My White Wyandotte (my Avatar) just started yesterday. She is around 19 weeks old. BUT.......
........................ her first egg was a TINY SHELL LESS egg You can see it here next to my BSL egg (the BSL egg is egg #4 from that chicken) Huge difference in size, not to mention NO...
So the large eggs are the 2nd through fourth egg from our BSL (the first egg was huge and a double yolker) .....
.yesterday I catch my Wyandotte in the nesting box, the small egg is what she left....A little tiny SHELL LESS egg. (I accidentally put a hole in the top messing with it)
I...
I am new as well, and still have a lot to learn too. I only know that from watching a video on you tube where someone had set a camera recording all night. A fox showed up and tried every crazy way possible to get into the coop. They had open top with netting. Well, eventually he climbed the...
Love your coop!!!!
I really cant help with your run issue. Its a problem for a lot of people. I will say that open top even with the netting will be easy pickings for four footed predators.(fox, coyote etc.) For that reason I made our run wood frame, long and narrow with a removable top that...
I know your chicken has been through a lot, so it going to be hard to tell because of the injuries.
My opinion is a Roo. The face is pretty red. and legs look really thick to me.
I would take the clippings out...keep it just sand. It would be hard to scoop out with grass in it. You may need some sort of boarder around the run. Chickens love to scratch and they will send sand flying right out of the run. Does not have to be that high, maybe 5 or 6 inches??? I only bring...
Dog house turned into chicken coop.....I found a lot of great ideas on this site and others. I have a German Shepherd that patrols our yard and protects my 3 single ladies. But, I will soon be switching to hardware cloth. Window is an old picture frame, nesting box I bought online and attached...
THANKS!!! We just checked again and now have our third egg in a row from our BSL. I am just love love loving this
Now waiting on the other 2
I cant wait to see the color difference between their eggs....(if any)