Reading through these posts have been very interesting and helpful. I made a quail pen using the galvanized small spaced wire, I hope it works. One of my issues is keeping the cage up high enough, but over the litter so the quail won't get into the litter.
Blessings,
Dawn
I have a beautiful young white rooster possible Leghorn that needs a new home ASAP! ASAP!. Very protective, but as of today has not started to grow. I was hoping it was a hen, but there is no doubt it is a Male. We live in Evansville Indiana.
Blessings,
Dawn
I put two free range grocery store eggs in my chicken's nest and yesterday I found the cutest yellow baby chick in the pen. What a blessing and sooooo adorable.
Blessings,
Ghettochicken
I have a hen who is broody lately and trying hard to hatch an unfertilized egg. Don't know how to get her to free range in the yard lately because most of the time she wants to sit on her egg.
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I live right in the city and have 2 back yard chickens. Last night the hens were in a uproar so we went out to see what was up. I expected to see a snake but found a possum staring at me from on top of the tarp on my chicken coop. I thought he might be after eggs but from reading these...
I use oak leaves in my pen. The chickens scratch around in it all day and mix it up for me. I throw some scratch on the leaves in the morning and they dig around mixing the leaves.
Someone recently told me that oak leaves keeps disease away, now whether that is true or not I don't know, but...