I am so sad. We keep our 4 hens in a chicken tractor but let them out into the pasture for a few hours when we get home from work so they can run around and take dirt baths. We've been doing this for a year now without any problems but some ravens killed my beautiful Spotted Sussex tonight. We...
Here is my coop which would never have become a reality without massive amounts of construction help from my fantastic Brother-in-law. The coop is 4'x8' and the "girls" love it. They figured out the ladder pretty quick but I am having trouble getting them to sleep upstairs (I have gone out in...
I ordered 3 more chicks but one came in 2 weeks early and it is too small to go in the 3 chicks that I got that are now almost 3 weeks old. I put the new speckled Sussex chick into a small cage by herself but put it up again the larger cage with the older chicks. Each cage has it's own light...
I joined a while back and have been busy trying to choose what chicks to order. I finally narrowed it down to six chicks that will go into the chicken tractor I am building. I can't tell you how happy I was when I got the call that the first 3 chicks (Cuckoo Maran, Plymouth Rock and Easter...