Im an hour and half North of Boise and the ONLY hatchery in the Boise area is Dunlap and no chick until Feb. That said, winter is my down time.
I wanting to order maybe 20-30 chicks and need a roster or two to go with the 10 semi producing chicken that are getting older. I plan on raising my...
I am preparing for a Feb chick buy from these folks in he Boise Idaho area. If I go local or semi local, they are an hour and a half away, nothing close to me. https://www.dunlaphatchery.net/Birds/Standards/Standards.aspx
I am wondering which breed of chickens to buy to get many various colors...
I have 10 chickens currently. Over the summer I started missing chickens. I have any automatic chicken door and had never had predator issues. Then on night I hear a commotion in the coop. I grab a headlamp and a 45 cal. I run to the exterior of the coop and the cats are outside all sketchy...
chicken coop
Im building a chicken coop for my 11 chickens with plans for maybe 20 total. I have built this approx 9 ft wide by 20 ft long, roof is 24ft/ overhangs. Im at the stage where I am wiring inside the walls for all my potential needs.
This coop has two room, the rear is the...
I recently moved from Nevada to Idaho. When in Nv I purchased and used some chicken nipples in a 3/4 PVC attached to a bucket that ran from the exterior into the interior of the coupe that I filled when needed.
I am building a new 19x9 ( I know an odd size but I used all left over material...
I have turned a portion of my barn/ shed side into a chicken coop. I am ready to add some nesting boxes to the left side that I can access from the outside of the coop. I am looking for some plans or dimensions, ect? Thought I woulc hceck here first. I would like to do 3 to 6 boxes along the...
chicken coop
approx 14x20
used to be a storage shed for windows, 9stil one in there) among other items.
Hi am new but thought since many of you like to see coops, I would show my shed recently turned chicken coop. Its approx 14x20 and one side is open air via wire. I have many plans for the...
OK, so I am new to the chicken gig. We have had them for several years but they were free range and the daily egg hunt got old. It was my wifes thing until last week, when I gave them their own coop approx 16X 22 or so and am now trying to figure out how to get the best production out of them. I...
We have had free range chickens for years and they stayed in the barn for th eost part and it was a daily egg hunt. Now I have given the ckickens their own area. However I have three roosters in with the hens? Should I have them seperated???? for the best egg production or does it matter?
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I am getting a bit more serious about our chickens, that were all my wifes gig up until now. I have decided if I am going to feed them and pour $ into them, then I am going to get more eggs and take better care of them. They are free range and live in various barn areas but now I have given them...
Ok, I am new to this site but the forum thing I get as I am on many hotrod boards.
However, my wife and I have had chickens for years that free range in the yards and stay in the barn. Recently our chickens have started breeding and the group has grown to maybe 25 or more, many or which, half...