Thanks very much to this site for the great information and helping me cure my broody hen. She had been crazy broody for 2 months and had all of the other hens laying outside the coop, etc. It was a mess. So we finally isolated her in an old hutch for 4 days. It took a few days for her to calm...
Found a soft egg in the morning poop pile from the roost from last night. ??????? These are the first eggs for our 4 new hens who are about 18 weeks. If the shell is soft, maybe she doesn't know she is laying an egg? So it was broken with the pile of poop just under the roost from last...
I am a Newbie. Our 4 girls are outside now and we are letting them out. They are so fun. and I had figured I would just pick up the hose and hose off the Poops on the concrete patio! NOT. The consistency is much more rubbery and STUCK to the concrete than I expected. I had to really scrape...
Hi! Newbie here! I am a little confused. I see these beautiful big wooden coops to put the chickens into at night for safety and sleep. But they look like they would be too hot in the summer but they would not be secure unless closed up, am I correct or am I missing something??
I live in...
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We have 4 girls who are now outside and getting big faster than I can believe. We are city dwellers with a pretty big back yard for a tract home, so have been letting them out during the day and they put themselves back inside at dusk. WHO KNEW???????? I sure would have saved alot...