I am thinking about building a brooder coming off my coop. A structure very similar to what I have for my nest boxes, with an external access door. The headache of taking chicks out of the brooder, and getting them settled into the coop with the older hens and rooster seems not only to be a...
My RIR hens have been evicted from their usual nest box by some Blue Marans pullets that for some reason like to hang in the coop and wind up tossing all the hay out of the nest box. 2nd day with no eggs, I went on an egg hunt, trying to find where they might be laying....I found a nest with 4...