What do you do about egg eating chickens? I put the mustard egg in this morning and they ate the thing eggshell and all. Then while I was standing in the run inspecting them for mustard face, a hen layer an egg from the one of the roosting branches in the run and nearly the whole flock...
There was a time when the eggs were very clean and collecting was a simple process. I have introduced four new pullets into the coop last year and they are still roosting in the nesting boxes and now they are filthy and NONE of the hens are laying eggs anymore. I have a light, a run, they are...
The following plans are my own design as we had a small moveable coop that we experimented for three years. When we were ready to commit we hand stacked the rock wall and created a drain field underneath the coop site as we receive 13 feet of rain each year here and the coop smelled because the...