One of our hens was really lethargic last night and not acting herself and this morning my husband found her dead in the nesting box. We are concerned for the rest of our flock. Her tail was down last night and she was laying around more than normal. She's always been kind of off, not as perky...
It's been over a month since we've had to fill our chicken feeder with feed.. They all use to race to the feeders after being let out in the mornings, and now my husband said he can't remember the last time he seen any of our chickens eat from the feeder... We've been tossing pellets out in the...
Our hen house is inside a inclosed run. Solid roof and concrete all around the bottom with wire sunk in pretty much fort knox. We live in a area where it only gets down to 15 degrees maybe once a year. We were going to put a door on the hen house later this summer or fall before it gets cold but...
Next weekend we are starting to put a roof over our run and coop. We got a bunch of corrugated metal for free that we plan on using. My mother in law says that we will fry our hens if we do this. I think they'll have enough breeze thru the open space of the run. Would like to get some opinions...
Show off your pallet coops!
I just want to see all the great pallet coops! Lets see how you did yours! How creative or simple you made yours!
We are finishing ours this weekend!!!
Riggs Pallet Coop!
We started with a plan of spending the least amount of money and I liked the idea of people using pallets (cust they are free)..
So this is what we started with:
We used a total of 4 pallets that that is about 4x4 sized hen house. We had a bunch of 4x4 posts that were...