Yes it gets around 30 degrees. How you see my coops is how they are year round. During the summer I have fans for the coops. We have several coons and moles. I have a German shepherd that patrols. Never really had a problem.
Greeting to you Jerry! Sorry to hear about your game chickens. I think you will like the RIR's. They in my experience, have shown to be excellent in laying. Well welcome to the club! Good luck to you and your chickens. Another really good bread is Dominique's.
Welcome to BYC, you will find that there is a lot to learn about chickens. I thought I knew a good bit until I starting reading on this site. One thing I have learned about people with chickens is they love to talk and share information.
-Nick
2AcreFarmer,
In the morning I feed and water the chickens. I feed a ratio of two scoops to one scoop of laying pellets to cracked corn. I do two scoops of laying pellets and visversa. I run two big coops and a few small ones. The two big coops contain two different breads of chickens. Every...
Welcome Mlsouth! I am also new and looking forward to as much information I can get about chickens. I have been raising chickens for a year now. I was amazed the wealth of knowledge I have learned from this page.
Welcome Michelle! I am new my self and everyone has been very inviting! I think you have already noticed how helpful the site is while you have been researching.
Welcome! I am new my self and everyone has been very inviting!
Bonnie I personally started with something very small and then quickly grew to something larger. I would seriously consider looking at something bigger then a chicken tractor. If you look at my avatar, I built mine for under 200...
Hello,
I have just a little piece of land in Mississippi. It consists of ten acres. On the ten acres lives my family of four. We raise chickens and attempt to be as self sustaining as possible. We raise mainly three types of chickens; Dominique's, Rhode Island Reds, and Wyandotte's. We have...