i always ask this each year and i know i know the answer but it always makes me whan to reasure my self. my girls and some unwhanted boys should start laying at 21 weeks. also they are 19 weeks starting to red en in the face (more in the wayandots )but also last year i had roos crowing at 11...
i smell precooked chicken was my first thought ,but latter i disined it to have 2 fans. but i the back wall is all windows on both sections the side wall on the coop side is where the nest boxes cleaning door and chicken door are above the nesting boxes ther ar three windows. then the front wall...
last monday i had my roof shot to deadth with hail sill in the process of fixing it.man but smome of those picks are prity bad i am sory about your broodies..
i normaly just put them in there with golf balls and when you build it and put the nests lower than the roosts min always stay out of them until they need them. and it is very posible they sent you a free roo.i got a mix of 5 diff breeds and orderd some buttercups and bough 1 buttercup roo and...
just make sure the chickens and the turkeys dont go together maybe dived the coop because Turkeys carry merkes and chickens carry black head desies. I know it sounds stupid but i had a friend loose all his chickens and all but 1 of his turkeys because of it.
yes i would count it as run space. but like other people have said ventilatition is key if fact a whole wall of my coop is chicken fence. as long as there not shoulder to shoulder and are able to go out side you shuld be fine. as for chicken math here is how i do it 3 square feet of floor space...
i am hopeing to move my 26 chicks out side soon they are only 4.5 weeks old i know to early but would 6 be ok. going to move them in to a 10x12 dog pin inside my .5 acer dog lot that is no longer used( i just let them run). so is tis ok
i cant post pics right now becaues i am in school but i have 2 that are white 2 look like chip monks when they were smaller now are kindof orange brown bared. and the last one is light yellow with light brown bars( plz and thankyou )
i had a chick that had a swollen eye it did not look infected so i let it fix its self it took 4 days, was not bolging she just could not open it but now she can
my reshipment came today.! they all survived the extras was a typo i got 25 for sure mabe 26 they will not stay still they are alsome. yeah:celebrate:weee:ya:cool:
...from McMurray Hatchery. Your order was placed on 02/23/2011 02:38 PM.
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SPSP 5 02/28/2011* SPECKLED SUSSEX Females
ARAP 6 02/28/2011* ARAUCANA Females
ARAP 6 02/28/2011* ARAUCANA Females
BUTP 3 02/28/2011* BUTTERCUPS Females...