My son's 1st grade class hatched 3 eggs Easter week. He won the raffle and brought 3 chicks home and 2 are roosters for sure but I have no idea what breed... Some days I think they are white leghorns because they are quite flighty, other days I'm convince they are rocks because they are messy...
i enjoy looking at other people's coop, coop construction and stuff... finally... so here's my first coop 'Cooplafornia'... home of the 'Cooplafornia gurls'... built from stratch... material i already have like palletes and scrap wood and recycled screws and other 'junk'.. it's almost done, but...
my cuckoo marans started laying saturday and for 3 days straight so far... an egg a day talk about old faithful... just wanted to share...
i already posted here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13502&p=342
will there be a 4th egg?? -to be continued
was walking door to door with the kids and saw a lady who dressed up her poodle in a chicken costume haha ... so does anybody have chicken in costumes?
i was contemplating a good way to keep waste down and keep chickens quenched and kept away from getting nipples in a few months now because i thought they were too expensive... then this morning i came across these...
my coop is still a work in progress... i live in southern california about 7 miles from the coastline (7 miles west of me is the coast and 7 miles south is more coast... ) every afternoon i get slight on shore breeze that feels great when it's warm here... i want to have vents that will let that...
hi yall i am going to build some nesting boxes that will attach to a side of my 2' x 5' coop... i have 5 pullets... should I go for 1 good size nest box or have 2 smaller nesting box? since it will be attached to the end of the coop the max width i have to work with is 24 inches.... (so two...
i am sort of collecting ideas for building my chicken coop... has anybody installed UV sanitizers in their coops to sanitize areas...or placed them on timers to turn on while chicken is out of coop... what yall think about having UV in the coop a good idea?
hi yall,
long time lurker/learner here... this year back in june something came over me and i wasn't myself... went out and got five day-old chicks from a feed store... long story short, wifey still don't approve but its all history now (i hope)... now i am just waiting for my 5 pullets to...