I have always had nesting boxes inside of the coop, but I have been told that it is okay keep them outside. I have recently decided to start using 5 gallon buckets for nesting boxes (bolted together and laying on their side outside of the coop) due to the sheer number of new hens we now have...
I want a vine that will trellis nicely in my newly built chicken-wire fence that is non-toxic to both chickens AND dogs.
It seems that what is safe for one is often a threat to the other.
English Ivy was our first thought since it is an evergreen, but it seems to be somewhat toxic to...
We live on a large farm where peaches and strawberries have been our traditional cash crop for generations, but climate change has meant several years of damaged or decreased production (or even total crop loss, like this year) and so we are looking into investing in more chickens for egg...