She is about six months old. We picked her up at a feed store when she was a couple of weeks old. We had thought that a hawk had gotten her last month as she disappeared from the rest of the free rangoing flock. Yesterday we saw it at 830 am by the coop. When we wengt to check on her at...
Any help would be appreciated............ Thanks in advance.
1. This one is two months old from McMurray
2. Two months old, from McMurray (looks all black)
3. Bantam froms TSC (have feathered feet) 1 month old(?)
4. From TSC 1 month old(?)
Last night was our first cold night for our (51) one week old chicks, 20 degrees. Tonight will also be cold. I built a brooder and it is in our unheated chicken coop. I have a power cord ran for the brooder. I was happy to see that the brooder was able to keep all the chicks warm last...
Cleared some land over the last couple of months to build our first coop. It is placed about 60 feet from my shop so that I can eventually get electricity and water to the coop and run. I purchased and have onsite enough wood to do all the framing and the floor. Finished size should be 16 X 16...
Has anyone had any experience using an automatic watering system with water from a well deep well/ aquifer? We aerate the water for the house (to get rid of the sulfur smell), but I dont intend on doing the same for the chickens.
I would like to have a run that is able to maintain some grass. Does anyone know how many square feet of space per chicken is needed in a run to be able to do this?
I have been lurking here for about 3 years gathering information with the plan on building a coop and a run and getting our first chickens.
After clearing some property, over the last couple of months I have started the coop. Yesterday I bought most of my wood and spend the remainder of the...