We finally got a nice day off work so we were determined to get the chicken run and door done. My dad built the timer for us, it works, but I'm not sure I trust it just yet. The chickens were 10 weeks old yesterday, they sure are getting big. Here are some pictures of the run, door, and the...
I think we heard one of our roosters trying to crow for the first time tonight. We were out playing with the chickens (come on, you know you all play with your chickens too....lol) and as we were leaving we heard this sound that almost sounded like a crow. We stopped and listened and it came...
We're moving our Rhode Island Reds out to the coop on Thanksgiving day and we still didn't have a decent feeder for them. So I told DH that he needed to design something during the football games last night!
So he designed a chicken feeder from 3 of these
Eight of these
and one of these...
In my intro thread someone told me that at this age (4 weeks) I should start being able to tell little differences between the girls and the boys in the coop. So here are a few pictures, I thought maybe y'all could help me out.........I know the pictures aren't the best, but the last one shows...
Hi there! My fiance (Geo to you guys and gals) finally convinced me to sign up for the forums......I think he was tired of sharing his computer with me!!
We are just starting out with our chickens, we got 25 RIRs about 4 weeks ago. Right now my main goal is to be able to tell the hens from...