I'm wanting to get my first flock of chickens. I'm pretty sure I want to go ahead and get what I'm going to get instead of adding a little at a time. I'm thinking about getting 25 RIR, 10 leghorns, 8 EE, 6 Barred Rocks and a RIR roo. I know that the ratio will be a little off with only 1 roo...
First one is about the run. I read on another forum that someone used sod in their chicken run then laid chicken wire over it. It allow the birds to have fresh grass and bugs without letting them eat all of the way down to bare dirt. Has anyone else tried this? and did it work for you? I wonder...
I already know that I'm not supposed to have chickens on my property because of my zoning (R-1 Rural Residential). However I'm on a little under 5 acres and alot of the property around me is zoned AG. I'm on a lake and looking at zoning maps, it looks like all of the lake front are R-1, but...
My SO has a couple (hundred) chickens, and has got me interested as well and thats how I ended up here. At first I was just going to browse, but while looking over the forums, I saw that even as a newbie with no chickens that I could offer some advice on a few topics relating to the coops since...