See attached picture. This is Big Mama Red. I free range my chickens for the last few hours of the sun light. When I open the coop and run the 8 mature hens are waiting and run out enjoying themselves. Today BMR never came out and was just laying in the nester like this. Pretty much the whole...
Well, we are in our first 6 months of raising our chickens - living in a somewhat rural area. We have seen bobcats, hawks, owls, coyotes and about two months ago a couple chickens were taken! We believe it was a hawk but could have been the bobcat. We started and had always thought we would...
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I am fairly new and have five hens that are in their fourth month of age now. I have another 5 that are about 3 months. The old five have not started laying yet.
I have a 8x8x8 foot coop. They all mosy on in every night and then we let them out in the morning. We have nesting boxes...
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My wife and I have found ourselves getting into raising chickens this summer. We started preparing in June this year. This website and the forums have been extremely helpful in understanding everything involved with raising chickens. Our primary reasons for getting the chickens was...