Thomas.... Welcome!!! Congrats to living your dream in Florida... Chickens are wonderful pets and I hope you enjoy.. I have only four about 10 mnths old but I am loving having chickens... Take care, Mac
My coop and my run are surrounded by 1/4 by 1/4 hardware cloth attached w screws and washers....Aint nothing getting in .... Top, sides and bottom are hardware cloth so there isnt anything other than a bear that can get them... With all the work and love that got them to the 10 month age that...
Thanks to the Roosterhavoc reply I just bought some rat traps.... 9.99 and a drywall bucket.... Have four hens and when they are in the yard, I leave the run door open... A small rat got in and was running around... Disgusting........I am sorry about your ducks... I would lay out under a blanket...
She is so beautiful..... Do you have a diaper for her? How do you let her walk around? Love to do that too.. there are times like yesterday when I hear a tapping at the back door and when I open the door there are 2 or 3 of them standing there, like, "let us in"
HI all, I have four hens of different breeds... They are 5.5 months old and two of the four are laying.... My question is..... I am giving them treats like sunflower seeds, scratch, spaghetti.. (they love it!!!!) corn, hard boiled eggs.... They are not eating their layer food from Southern...
I have some suggestions...
1 Don't use chicken wire... too weak and openings too large..
2 Use 1/2 x 1/2 inch hardware cloth and use screws w washers, not staples.
3 Put either a skirt of 2 foot wide hardware cloth around the perimeter and pin to ground... Let grass grow thru it or do what I did...
I am in Bethesda, Md just outside the beltway... We have four girls, black austrolorp, buff orpington, ameraucana, and a cream legbar.. 4.5 months old.... Loving it!!! Just finishing up my coop and run...
I have four 4.5 month old girls and today one of them, a black austrolorp got and killed two baby mice, about an hour apart... I was worried about the fact that maybe a neighbor had poisoned them so I got the ck to drop it and threw it away....
I am new to this and have four hens about 4.5 months old.... Black Austrolorp, Cream legbar, Ameraucauna and buff orpington.. I go out with them almost every day and read a book sitting in a chair, and as time has gone by they see me as a friend.. Today they came up and two of them jumped up in...
I am a new chicken lover and I have a black Australorp, a Buff Orpington, an Americana and a cream leg bar all about four months old. Thoughts about when they will start laying?
Building a big door is ok if you stabilize w a diagonal... HD sells hardware and cable that you can use and attach from the upper end at the hinges and then down diagonally to the lower end of the other side of the door... the hardware has a cable tightener so you can keep this tight and so the...