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My chickens are 20 weeks today and have not started to lay yet. I plan to start the laying feed and offering oyster shells as soon as I get a chance to get to the store. I have offered crushed egg shells for the past two days - mixed in with some strawberry tops and oats. They ate some. Thank...

I am new also and have questions about oyster shells - or calcium supplements in general. I don't have any oyster shells and wasn't planning to go to TSC until next week. What else can I give to make sure they are getting enough calcium? I have read about crushed up egg shells - do I just...

I have 2 Australorps and 1 Buff Orpington. They will be 20 weeks on Tuesday. Their combs have really grown in these past few weeks and I think they are pretty red. They free range most days, but I also keep them in their coop/run occasionally if we are out of town. I have had them since they...

Can you send me a picture of the "rubber ring"? We looked at rubber rings at Home Depot - from the garden hose section, but the employee was certain it wouldn't seal... I used 3/4 in. PVC pipe and drilled a hole using a 1in. paddle bit (we tried 3/4 and 7/8, both were too small - the 1in bit...

Hello - I started my flock last week and am having a few issues with my waterer. I built a horizontal nipple waterer using a 5 gal bucket and some PVC. My leak is coming from the place where I drilled the hole in the side of the bucket. I used a male PVC end and a plastic nut along with large...

I got my first flock (4 hens) on Friday morning at 10am. I had no other water source in the coop for them. By lunchtime 3 of them all had it figured out, and the last one was drinking successfully by 5/6pm. One of the hens is a 1 year old bantam silkie, two of them are 9 week old australorps...

Just wondering if you resolved your leaking issue? I built my own horizontal waterer using a 5 gal bucket. I was told at Home Depot and Ace Hardware that it would be difficult/impossible to fix the leak on the side of the bucket.