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Quote: My plan is to use a spike to make a hole and then take a metal clotheshanger, wrap it through the hole like the cabbage was a giant bead and suspend that under one of the windows on a hook. I'm not sure how it's going to work, but that seems least likely to involve things that might...

No new pics -- Just a question! If I don't have crowing yet and no one is acting really rooster-ish and I'm not seeing large spurs (ETA: they all have little spurs but since I've been eating eggs from them for a couple weeks now, there are obviously hens out there with spurs!), is it a safe...

Quote: Yeah, I'm not worried about messy/muddy, either -- I do like the idea of the bale of hay under the flat roof against the house, especially since it's sheltered already. And I got straw for inside the coop. Dad had told me about the hanging cabbage. He said that it would help keep...

Quote: Thanks for the help! I know that I'm probably worrying more than I need to, because I worried when I moved them outside from the inside where they were as chicks and I worried when I started to let them free-range. But I'm probably still going to worry, too. I did giggle at the...

Quote: Jim, let me tell you what we started doing last winter in our run...we got a large round bale of hay..not straw...and unrolled it in the chicken run. Now it keeps them up off the muddy/cold ground and gives them seeds to scratch for all winter long. In the spring you have some pretty...

I'm starting to get stressed about winter and the girls. The have a 6x6X6 coop, with five nesting boxes and two perches -- 2X4s. No insulation. There's ventilation in the roof and there's spaces where ceiling and walls meet. The roof comes down lower than those spaces, so I'm hoping that'll...

Mine opens down and the part that would be inside the house has little slats and is the gangplank for the girls to get down to the ground on. The hinges are at the bottom and on the outside-top there's a latch to hold it shut. I <3 it.

Quote: I'm going to try to get a better picture of that one. The hawk was hanging out in the trees and that was making all of them edgier than normal -- I'm just thankful they have the good sense to scurry toward cover at the sound of the hawk, even though they don't range far to begin with...

Quote: I hardly know anything about anything! I got the chickens as day-olds with my father, who unfortunately had a stroke and just passed away. So now I have 7 chickens of unknown gender and I'm kinda making it up as I go. I am hoping that I have all hens or, at most, one roo! Do they...

I have no clue what she is, but those feathers are gorgeous! I want them for craft projects. *grins widely and sneaks around your yard picking up molted feathers*

ETA: At this point, they're about a week shy of being three months old. I can haz pictures! They were more-or-less cooperative this morning -- they've taken to hanging out under this roof that extends in front of the house and under a lilac bush and other bushes under the roof. I have a...

Quote: They don't stand still! I try to get them to cooperate and they just are never motionless. I'm still trying to get some clean images to post here so that you good folks can give me an idea. When will it generally be clear, age-wise?

Around April 25th, I bought 7 day-old chicks. They were, in theory, all girls, but I was expecting one boy just because of the nature of sexing day-olds. Four Barred Rock, three Rhode Island Reds. EVERYONE is developing nubs/spurs and no one seems to have overly large combs and while I'm sure...