A few weeks ago, I thought I was missing a hen. She had been conspicuously absent for over a week. I moved a bale of straw to clean the coop and found her sitting on a clutch of 13 eggs. My rooster is a nice looking guy, but doesn’t get the job done with all of the flock. Some he likes...
My chicken run is 50’ X 50’ of tall fence. I have half a dozen dwarf apple trees in that space as well as the coop. I have a separate “garden” that is the same size with the same 8’ tall fence. The deer are a pestilence here and putting one in the freezer each fall does nothing to keep them...
My flock is currently 9 hens and a roo. I also have 14 eggs in the incubator. They have a 12’ X 8’ coop with six nesting boxes. The run is 50’ X 50’, fenced. I have about six acres. Lately, they have decided that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence (it really is, spring has...
Long time reader, first post. Sorry the length is “War and Peace” like, but having read so many threads, I figured I’d answer as many of the commonly asked questions as I could up front.
My coop is 7’ by 4’ elevated with an enclosed run beneath that is open for the birds to “free range” in a...