One of our two-month-old chicks (a Cuckoo Maran) had a tiny bald spot on her head when we got her at two weeks old. I figured it was a tiny scratch or maybe a congenital abnormality. Unfortunately, as she grows, the spot seems to be growing proportionally with her. It's now about 3/4 the size...
These are our "ladies". We have a Barred Plymouth Rock, a Buff Orpington, a Silver-Laced Wyandotte, and an Ameracauna.
This is our henhouse. It wasn't quite finished in this picture. It sits in the garage, and has an old kitchen cabinet mounted on each side for a nesting box. They've been...
I'm picking up 4 pullots on Sunday, and my coop is pretty much set. The coop is in the garage, and the ladder into it from the run is pretty steep (it's an old bunk bed ladder installed at an angle against a framed opening into the coop). How old do my pullots have to be to make it up the...
We are almost don with our garage coop. The coop is about 3 ft x 7 ft,, and 3 ft high (+6 inches off the ground). The run (on the outside of the garage, accessible through a framed opening) will be 6x6. How many larger hardy-type hens could be kept under this arrangement? I keep reading...
Were just got a permit to put up a coop in our urban Mid-western city backyard. Well be making a run out of dog kennel panels that will make a 3 sided run against the wall of our garage. Were framing an opening into a henhouse in the garage. Well be able to collect eggs and clean the...
I am trying to set up a small flock of hens (6 or less) in our Midwestern city, but I have a concerned neighbor. We want to have the run be a dog kennel with an opening into a hen house in our garage. Well dig chicken wire into the ground around the coop as extra protection.
My neighbor has...