For your craft projects, four of the plastic-type pet food bags. Large bags from Purina Layena, Purina Dog chow, and Purina cat chow, and one medium (20 lb?) bag from Dumor Chick Starter, this one has been cut on the ends. The other three bags are in original shape with only the tops cut.
I have a small coop for three bantam hens. They are only just mature (one has started, and now stopped, laying - the other two are just getting red in their combs). The coop is actually a converted (huge!) rabbit coop to which I've added a run, and they also have access to the space under...
I spent over an hour literally running in circles the other day to get my three naughty banties into their coop & run. I live in a residential neighborhood so I can't leave them out when I am not home. I usually have help from my son to corral them in, but I was on my own this time, and I was...
Hi, I introduced a new pullet (about 10 weeks old) to my flock of two pullets (13 weeks and 9 weeks old), and although there's no fighting or squabbling, she won't come out of the coop. There is no water or food in the coop--during the summer both are affixed to the run. It's supposed to be 95...
Please bear with me if this is a ridiculous question. I have a smaller coop with a bantam roo (that I'm trying to rehome, PM me!) and two bantam pullets. The coop could easily fit two more bantams or one standard chicken.
My question is this, how big an entrance can a full sized hen fit...
Elvis is a sweet-tempered and gorgeous 12 week old Mille Fleur/Ameraucana mixed breed bantam with feathered feet. Gentle and protective of the ladies. His crow is subtle and not too loud, but not suitable for my very residential, urban homestead. He is free to a good home. Photo shows Elvis...
HELP! Okay, here is some CRAZY news about my birds. Asking for opinions and any similar experiences/outcomes.
Yawkey - whom everyone seems to think is a pullet - is crowing and acting like a roo.
Elvis - whom I believed with all my heart to be a pullet - is crowing but acting like a hen...
Can you help me sex these chicks? Also, if you think I'm wrong with their breed mix please tell me... I was told they were all "Ameraucana bantam mixes." I'm hoping they're all girls (urban neighborhood), but it's hard to tell because they are still peeping, although I've heard a timid chortle...
Hello all. I'm a first time chicken owner, and I've always wanted some, finally the dream has come true for me.
I purchased four 5-week old bantam st. run chicks two weeks ago. I'm pretty sure all of them are hens. The problem is that I don't think they ever had much human contact and they...