I have a nest box with carpet in it. It has worked fine. I made two more nest boxes in my coop addition. I put hay in them and the hay slowly disappears. They must be eating it. Is this bad for them? I am worried about it getting stuck in their crops.
I have a BO---Buffy and a BR---Teresa Jr. in a growing pen in the garage. It is 4ft x 3ft and has a nest box and a roost box added on to it. The BO has been broody for about 2 weeks now. I let them out and run around in the grass about a hour each day. I have 5 adults in the big coop in back of...
I have a buff orpington and a barred rock in a 12 sq. ft. growing pen in my garage. It has a nest box attached to it. I got them in june and I will integrate them in the large coop with 5 other chickens as soon as it warms up a little more.
The buff has stayed in the nest box for the last 4...
I have two ISA browns and one barred rock in a coop with one nest box. They will be two years old in march. I am finding a cracked egg for the last three weeks on the poop board under the roost. It is a little on the soft shell side. They all eat layena and I sprinkle a little calcium on there...
I was worried about one of my australorps being a rooster. The worry was just from the look of the comb and wattlle because the other one does not have as much.
They are over 20 weeks old and the one I was worried about is squating for the past 4 days. Is this a quarantee that it is a hen?
I have been giving my chickens tomatoes, cucumbers and zuchini from the garden. I have found a shelless egg 2 days in a row followed by a tiny shelled egg. The egg was just a little bigger than a robins egg. Is this from them eating to much vegatables and not enough layena. Has anyone seen this...
I have 2 isa browns and one barred rock that are the originals about 17 months old. I have 2 australorps about 19 weeks old that are new. They have been in the coop with a screen divider for about 4 weeks with the other ones. I let the originals out in the run most of the day. Then let the...
Anyone seeing mites in their chicken feed bags? Just noticed this last week. Is this from the warm and humid weather? They showed up in the rubbermaid container
in the garage with layena in it and in the purina start and grow I had in the house. The sstart and grow has been in the house since...
I have 2 black australorps about 19 weeks old. One has a comb and waddle that is now starting to look like it it getting red for egg laying. The other has a small
pale colored comb and just starting to develop the wattle. They are both the same height and tale and neck feathers look the same...
Has anyone used this style roof vent in their coop. I doubled the size of my coop and added windows and siding. I am thinking this would be the ventilation
in the winter when every thing is closed up. My roof is about 7'-6" high at the peak. The pics on my page are of the coop before the...
I go to buy some feed and see this stuff. So I ask the guy how much more is it than the regular layena. He says a dollar. So they bring a bag to my car. I get
home and find out it is only a 40 pound bag.
So here is how I feel.
First they raise the price of feed. Then they offer coupons that...
I just got 2 buff orpintons and a barred rock. Can I put them on the lawn with a screen around them. I am worried about the eating of the grass getting stuck in the crop.
I have some plastic chciken fencing left over i used to put over the metal fencing in the adults run so they would stop...
I made a coop addition. So now my coop has two 4x8 sections with a sliding screen door as a divider. I have one barred rock and two isa browns over a year old in there
now. I will put two black australorps in the other half. They are 13 weeks old. If I let the birds see each other thru the...
I have 3 adult hens in the coop now and two 12 week old australorps in a 4x3 brooder. I put a addition on the coop and will move the 2 australorps at some point
into the addition. I will keep them seperated but seen by the adults for a break in period. Then remove the screen divider and let them...
I have 2 black austalorps. They are about 9 or 10 weeks old. One still peeps like a baby but the other seems to be making alot of goose type sounds.
It is not a cock a doodle do but sort of a honking sound. They both look the same but the one with the honking sound has thicker legs. The feathers...
How long do you need to wait after fertilizing your lawn with chemicals before the grass is safe for chickens.
I am talking about scotts turf builder . I did not use the weed and feed stuff.
I did not fertilize last year because of the chickens. The lawn took a beating not from chickens just from weather. The chickens can't get to
this area of grass. Can these grass clippings be fed to them at some point or should I not give them it all season?
I seen 3 hawks yesterday gliding in the wind up high. I have a 10ft x10ft run area that is fenced but not covered. There is a double seated
bench in there and I sit and watch the chickens when they are out. The run is not covered. Would a hawk swoop in with me sitting there?
Are they afraid of...