My husband had two galvanized metal pans fabricated. each has nylon rope handles on each end. We keep them under the girl’s roosts. makes cleaning the coop so easy. Pull out the pans, dump in compost pile, clean them, put them back under the roosts. The rest of the coop stays much cleaner that...
This is exactly what we needed to read. Question, we have taken our granddaughter’s neutered 1.5 yr. old Blue Pit while she is participating in a long-term rehab program. He is wonderful with us, our grandson, and great grand
son. I am not sure how he is with other dogs as we had him and our...
We bought shiny twirly gigs at the party store here in town and I hung them from a few tree branches overhanging our chicken area-seems to confuse he predators' line of sight and we have had zero problems since putting them out two years ago. I bought new ones this year. Used CDs would probably...
Our chickens molted. We have 11 girls and used to get 10 eggs a day without fail. Now we are lucky to get 4. This has been going on for over a month now. How the heck long is it going to be until they lay again?
I think the roosting bars need to be a bit more rounded. Look at your girls' little feet. They are made to go around branches - branches are not rectangular. I also think the roosts should be a bit longer. My girls like to next right next to each other and in cold weather, they keep each other...
So we have had our girls for 1 & 2 years (Buff Orpingtons 1-yr, Golden Comets -2). We have 10 girls. For the last three weeks we have been getting 3-5 eggs a day. This is way-y-y-y under our regular production! There are feathers in their area but none of them looks anything like the photo of...
Ours had those wrinkly eggs for a time as well. They are back to normal. I don't think it anything to worry about (I hope). Our girls are fine now so - no biggie.
We have ten girls; Golden Comets and Buff Orpingtons. They are between 1 & 2 years old. We are only getting 3 eggs a day after having experienced terrific laying (9-10 out of 10). They don't seem "molti." Any clue as to what might be going on?
We have had Golden moments for two years now and love love love them! They are friendly (except for one girl who is manageable but not terribly friendly - the Alpha Girl). They are great layers and do not get broody too easily. We could not be more pleased with them. Now, we are new at keeping...
Thank you so much for you reply! My girls are BO and Golden Comets. I guess this is just an animal thing. This is the first time we have ever had anything other than children or dogs. A lot to,learn!
We use vertical nipples in a Home Depot bucket. In the winter, we use a bucket heater (immersible) and don't have any problems. Our bucket has 4 nipples. We have a smaller "fair weather" bucket that also has four nipples. We have 16 birds and they all do quite well with this set up.
Sorry for your loss! We had one of our Orpingtons that just sat around all one day and then the next day I went out in the morning to open the coop and she was still just sitting around. Later in the day I went for eggs and she was deader than a doornail (whatever that means!). Everyone else...