First of all - I LOVE this website!! Everytime I have a chicken question, I go here and see what other folks have done. It's great!!
Second - I ended up with a rooster! Got my 6 girls in a batch of 32 (ordered with a friend). The hatchery has a 90% sucess rate with sexing, and I pick the only...
My girls are 12 weeks now, and are still not roosting at night! They loved the small practice perches in the brooder, but when I moved them and the perches to the coop, they stopped roosting! The coop has a long roost near the top of the roost. I thought that might be too high at first, so my...
Thanks for all your suggestions! I will try keeping them in for a couple of days (when the weather isn't so humid) and I'll let you know how it works. Thanks again!
Their feed is always kept in the coop. I have water both in the coop and outside. They are confined to a pen, so they have nowhere else to sleep! When it gets dark, they huddle in a corner of the pen together. When they see me or my husband, they "peep" at us to come get them. We place them in...
My 8 week old girls have been in their outside coop for 1 1/2 weeks now. They still won't go from the pen into the coop at night. A friend here suggested we keep them in the coop for 2-3 days so they learn that's their home. I'm afraid they will be MISERABLE not getting let out to the pen in the...
I'm new to this website and a newbie chicken handler! My 6 chicks are 9 weeks old. They have been outside in a high-rise coop now for a week. We have started letting them out in an attached pen. They LOVE coming outside, but I'm having a problem with them not going back in the coop at night! I...