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These are great ideas. I was just thinking about this today. I can't let ours out of their run and I feel bad they might get bored. I will def be trying some of these ideas. One thing we do for inside the coop is mix scratch into their pine shavings, so at least in the morning before I have let...

We have five buff orpingtons and the the four of us each got to name one and then together we picked the fifth chicks name. My 9 year old daughter named hers Nugget, my 7 year old son named his Chicky. I picked Chopsticks and my husband picked Dumpling. The fifth one we named Sushi. And no, even...

We live outside of the city limits in Lake County, Florida, in a residential neighborhood, with a HOA. We are allowed to have chickens here because they are considered pets, they do not fall under the livestock category. We are not allowed to have them as part of a business or "chicken farm"...

Has anybody had any predators dig far under hardware cloth? We have ours dug down 13 inches for their enclosure during the day and at night they are completely closed up inside their coop, with every opening covered with the hardware cloth. I was just worried that maybe 13 inches wasn't enough...

Thanks for the info!

I know this was a couple of months ago, but did you ever figure out what to do about the cuts? I have five 9 week old chicks and 2 of them have the same kind of cuts you describe. I think it is also from trying to get the grass or anything that might be on the other side of the hardware cloth...