we have five hens and one rooster and i bought a new hen. we kept it by itself for a while to make sure it was ok and all. then put the baby chicken (about five moths old. she is an americano/buff mix) in with the other chickens. the first day i put the baby in with the other hens and stayed to...
My husband and I are new at the chicken farm we are putting together and we r talkin about enlarging the chicken house for mOre chickens. But what our question is
Is there a purpose behind the free to enclosure. Like for eggs its best to free range but if you are going to eat them then...
If the ratio for the nesting boxes are 1 for every 5-8 hens where do they all sleep.
I know in our coup that we have five hens and a rooster and at night
If u go in there that the hens are in the boxes. ( but we have 13 of them). Thats how we are going off how many we should have??
hubby and i are newbies to the country living and chicken. we moved into our home with chickens living just down from us. lol the previous owners left them for us. there was a radio in the chicken coop so my husband desided to leave it on for them. would this be a good thing or bad?
my husband and i just bought a house in the country and the people we bought it from left us there chickens!! we were so excited. we moved in on feb 27. on the 27 we checked them and they had a couple eggs in there nest. then there was a really cold spell. since the 29 we had one egg! and they...