I redesigned my coop after learning so much. Since then my hen has been only laying her eggs on the floor. So the old set up had wood dividers and was open on the top. They would roost on the dividers and poop in the nesting boxes. New set up is a covered shelf with deep plastic bins that i cut...
My RI RED just started laying 2 weeks ago and I have been getting an egg every 1.5 days. This morning she laid 2 eggs that had extremely thin shells. One of them broke as I tried to pick it up. Is this typical to have a chicken lay 2 eggs at the same time? Is it understandable that those two...
We have switched out playhouse shed into a coop. There was an existing door that led to a bridge. So we took that and cut the bridge in half. Then we built the nesting boxing and all that inside. We have 6 5wk old chick's and one hen that just laid her first egg. If this going to be a good size...
About 3 weeks ago I came home from work to find a chicken in the dog house. I have always wanted to have chickens, just never went out to start my own. So I don't know any neighbors that have chickens - it was a cold snowy night, so I put her in my shed. I went out to get all the materials I...