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I am so excited to hear this is ok for them I hate waste so this will be good use of my almond pulp!

Right I use oils on us all the time I was thinking lavender but dint know it it was ok for chicks. That is my plan is to go with what they said. Thank you for all the advice now that is it morning I am off to see what I can find at the stores here!

Thank you I know i can get iodine here so I will for sure start with that! does anyone know if any essential oils are safe and good to use?

One of our one month chicks started to get pecked at for now reason. I had put a band on her ankle and then was going to do the rest later today, so I had looked her over came back a while later and she had what was the start if a sore. I took her out took the band off and since no one was...

I have never seen this before what is the purpose of this?

OK that makes a lot of sense about the heat, thank you for explaining. Ok we have a lot of floor space in the room much much more then needed for out birds and double that actually if I remember measurements right.

The shed is an old wood working shed surprising it is a very short ceiling only about six feet tall and the windows are at the top of the walls. I will try to post a picture later. So the boards should have one foot of space between them from front to back, that is what i was thinking seemed...

We are designing our coop we are trying to decide a few things. It is a shed/garage that is attached to our house with two windows so it has lots of ventilation, sound structure and very secure. It has cement floors, do the nest boxes still need to be off the ground? Roosts just need to be...

Thank you this is our first time raising chickens we are very excited and really love them!

Yes this in inside our house so pests aren't a worry. Our small dog is sad they she can no longer see them.

Here are some better pictures sorry it is a winter green house/garden so it is a small room to get far enough back to see it all. I hope this is a better help for you!

Our 2 week old babies were getting to big for there original brooder so I remembered seeing something on here before so we did a modified version since ours are in a four seasons type room. We laid down a tarp and then used wire storage racks around it put boxes up to stop them from kicking the...

I am also interested in this. We have a yard they will range in that is very large but i don't know that my neighbors would be ok with a bird in there garden that are very elaborate. What are the pros vs cons of clipping one vs two?

Oh thank you for pointing that out. We are in Germany so everything in metric that we will be using so I guess we should go and look at actual timbers before we start to design then so that we get eh most bang for our euro!

OK so that size would be good for the winter months when they would have limited outside time? we are hoping to make it kind of a duplex like so there would be nesting boxes at the top with roosts and small flat area in front of the boxes for space to sit and poop boards under the roosts.

I am no good at math and am trying to make sure we make our coop big enough for our birds. We have 10 chicks and are not for sure what breed they are yet but are under the impression they are larger breed. We are thinking right now to have a 5x8 footprint so that gives then the 4sqft per bird in...

We do get a far amount of rain here in Germany. All of our house old items and belongings all come back with us together that cost is not a factor we are military and move on a regular basis. So it would be more so what would be better for the chickens and our family. We have never had them our...

we have heard there can be marters here (i dont know what the American name of them would be) I guess they are very geographical and we haven't seen them here yet. From my understanding they are kinda like ferrets but aggressive. Another thought was to build the coop so that it could be put into...

Thank you I think that does help so far from what we have been seeing in pictures all the breeds that we think we could possibly have are all docile and well mannered just a little on the larger side. It is a shed that is connected to the house so it is park of the standing strucktcher cemented...

But it would be possible to convert a shed right? It would kinda be a little like a barn the I guess. We don't know for sure what type we have yet either the person who helped us get them said they will be on the big and good layers.