Now that it's getting cold, I bought a plastic dog crate for my girl's open air coop (the shipping crate type with plenty of ventilation). I put it up on blocks about 1.5 ft off the ground and built some roosts to go inside. My girls are about 6.5 months old and have been sleeping on a pile in...
For some reason my hens are much noisier than I remembered as a child. They are up at the very first crack of dawn and their egg song is very LOUD, but they usually quiet down within a few hours and are pretty much slient for the rest of the day. It doesn't bother me at all and I wouldn't be as...
I'm so excited, and had to share the news. We got our first egg last night! It was a perfect little white egg. Either from my silver spangled hamburg or white leghorn (our other 3 girls should lay brown eggs). I'm guessing it was the spangled due to the size. Wish I could post pics but I'm new...