About a year ago, I took on raising 4 hens at my apartment complex and have had a fantastic experience. Unfortunately, I had to give up my girls, and even move out of my apartment. This all started as my apartment was ac cross the street to several open fields, where there were over 100 wild...
I have four girls, and when they first started to lay, all but one figured out the nesting box. I put her into the nest box the next day, with some of the other girl's eggs already inside. You could almost see the little light bulb light up in her head because she understood right away, and...
Thanks for your comment. No issue with parasites. The only health issue has been with one of the buttercups who developed a brief yeast infection, laid a couple of shell-less eggs, and had somewhat of a sticky-butt. I think I solved the problem. I've been putting about a teaspoon of apple cider...
I have four hens, and live in an apartment where I've converted an outside storage closet into a coop. My chickens roam freely around the neighborhood, sort of like an outside cat, but come home to their coop to roost and lay eggs. Better than an outside cat, my chickens will actually come...
Never realized how good of 'pets' they can be. I have 4 hens and keep them as 'extra free-range' chickens. I live in an apartment and converted my outside storage closet to a coop. There are lots of wild chickens in the neighborhood, and I've trained mine to roam freely around the...
Thank you for your comments! We live in Idaho. A few of the wild hens actually had multiple broods the past spring and summer. When they came of age we were able to trap them. I had heard from neighbors that the 'wild chickens' had got to be such a problem in the past years that the city had...
extra-free-ranging-apartment chickens (as pets)
A little over a year ago, we enjoyed the site of several chickens having free range all over the neighborhood.
Our street is a mixed bag of apartments and older homes with property, so I had always assumed that they belonged to someone and...