One of our girls has had a greatly enlarged crop for a couple of weeks. It does not go down overnight. The good news is that she is still very active and is eating voraciously. But she is losing weight and I just noticed that the skin immediately around her crop is flaming red. I feel...
We're finishing our coop for 10 hens. It's smallish so we have to be efficient with use of space. It's a 5' x 5' room with 3 nest boxes built out to the exterior. We're thinking of doing one level of L shaped roost up high with a ladder of sorts to access it.
I have two questions: If we...
Questions from a newbie...
How high should we hang the feeder off the floor of the coop...and will hanging it solve our recent problem of the chickys wasting it all over the floor? They are about 6 months old and they have just started doing this. It's everywhere!
I want to get our...
We have 10 chickens who started laying about a month ago. They are laying in their boxes, but we let about half of them out for part of each day to free range in the yard. I've thought of building an outdoor nesting box onto the side of the shed for layers who are stuck outside when they get...