Three months ago we moved to "the country". The chickens have been so happy getting to run around a large 6' fenced yard but alas last week two chickens were chomped by a fox! It looks like the fox snuck in under the fence during the day, yesterday he came back for more but we were outside and...
My girls have been laying for about two months now for the first time. We switched them from medicated crumbles to Cluck and Peck organic feed with corn and soy when they started laying and they have access to free feed oyster shells. One of my girls a white easter egger is laying soft/shell...
I'm a new chicken mom and have three chickens. Two Blackstar sex linked and one leghorn. All are about 4 months old so no one is laying yet.They are fed medicated grower crumbles and have access to water. The coop bedding is pine and the run is sand. On occasion I've been finding bloody poops on...
I'm a new chicken mom! My coop came with my new house. I've made some upgrades to the coop among them I added a 1'x1' ventilation hole at the top of the coop with a louvered vent cover. There are also small gaps (not big enough to worry about covering with metal cloth) at eaves of the roof and...
Hi! I'm a new chicken mom! I have three pullets two blackstar and one leghorn. i moved to a new house and it came with a chicken coop. I spiffed it up by washing out the coop, adding ventilation, windows, a better roost soon a poop board and changing up all of the sand in the run.