I just went out to the coop to check for eggs (9:20 am) and found one of my three hens on her side in the middle of the coop, the other two were in the run. She is usually very flighty and never ever lets me get anywhere near her. Anyway, I picked her up and did a once over looking for signs of...
I decided to make my own feeder that was inspired based on something I saw here or on youtube awhile ago. Anyway, it is basically just a 4" PVC pipe with a Wye connector on the bottom. Recently, one or two of my chickens instead of eating the pellets inside seem to just pull them all out onto...
So after just building my little coop and getting chickens I am wondering how essential an automatic coop door is? They are in a small pen all the time for now which is just enclosed with chicken wire, while the coop is secured with hardware cloth. Anyway, due to having an erratic schedule I...
I just finished building my first coop to start a small flock of chickens. It took me a little longer than I had planned for, but was able to finish the big stuff over the weekend, and have slowly been adding little features the rest of the week. My biggest concern was size since I had to build...
Hi everyone, I am new to BYC and in the process of building a coop for 3-4 hens. The floor plan of the actual coop will be 4'x3' with the nest boxes on the outside so I have plenty of room on the inside for their feed and water. I am probably going to make my own feeder/waterer since that is...