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You can also find a cool spot on the grass and lay her down or put her in a new pen as soon as she acts broody. It will normally snap them out of it. And don't let her set on eggs for any period of time because she will want to hatch them and won't give you any eggs. She might be a good hen to...

Awww why does everyone have to hate on all the single comb girls? You know most good breeders will breed a single comb roo into their lines if they are having the infamous fertility issues which are carried on the gene for the rose comb. Yes, I know, I know, I speak blasphemy, but it works and...

Yeah the layer feed might be worse. Well if you can't find anything else right now and you're worried about it you could always use a cheese grater and grate up some veggies for them. My ducks and chickens love it. Mamma will also probably have them catch bugs too so they'll have plenty to eat...

That sounds like a working setup you have.  Poor roos - hens can really gang up on one lone roo so don't blame him for roosting in a tree instead.  I've seen a gang of hens on one cockerel before and it's not a pretty sight! [/quo Oh yeah we've got a great set up. The people we bought the house...

Dont give your ducklings medicated chick feed. They are very sensitive to the medication and it has been known to kill them in some cases. I had to learn the hard way when I accidentally killed all of mine except one a few years ago. They should be on meat bird crumbles which you can also feed...

We turned a hose on our cats and it worked with all but one so we bought a very dominant hen and she takes care of him. It's kinda funny to watch this sweet fluffy Cochin chase a cat around. The other day she chased him up the tree then sat at the bottom waiting for him to come down. The cats...

Thanks! Hopefully we'll start seeing signs soon. Sucks playing the waiting game lol

You say you got them in May. If that's the case he's just filled with all his crazy boy hormones, just like any other teenager, and he wants to be in charge. You need to make sure you are calm around him but also don't back down to him either. He's going to constantly test you to see if he can...

How old were you girls when they started to lay. I have 2 that are 6 months and nothing yet.

If your coop has good ventilation and you scoop out the poop about once a week, it won't smell at all. A lot of people also use the deep litter method and that doesn't really smell either. You could use the concrete slab if you want but I wouldn't because you want good drainage or it will smell...

Ok here is the coop my hubby and I ( mostly the hubby) started last weekend. We used 5 pallets. One for the floor and 4 for the wall frames. Then we just cut left over plywood to size for walls and we cut some 4x4 pieces left over from cutting fence posts, for the legs to raise it off the...

You're welcome. Most chickens will molt in their second year and than every year after that. Now their egg production might start to slow down around 3 years old but the eggs will be larger. I've never had one completely stop laying before the age of 5 so your girls still have at least a few...

Wow it looks great. Even looks better than some homes I've seen lol. Great job

That would be a good idea. That hardware cloth is tough stuff. And the pea gravel is great for drainage. We use it in the horse stalls under the bedding and the stalls always stay nice and dry

Oh another thing, if you do a wooden floor it will need to be raised off the ground a few inches, otherwise your wooden floor will rot from the moisture in the ground and youll have to spend the money to replace it every few years

It is doable. First you have to make sure you use heat treated wood not chemical treated. Next you need to make sure you have proper drainage. You could use wooden boards and make sure they are spaced far enough apart to allow water to drain but close enough together that your bedding won't fall...

The coop is secure now. That picture was taken while we were in the process of building. We won't be doing a run or pen for them because the coop is in the middle of the horse pasture that is fenced with high gage steal wire mesh that's sunk into the ground 18". Plus we have a mule who's been...

All of my ladies stop laying when they molt in the fall and a few of them won't start laying again until the spring. It's perfectly normal. Get some nutrena nature wise feather fixer. It's a feed for molting and it helps protect against mites. We give it starting when they first start molting...

Thank you. (It was mostly the hubby lol)

Ok I know it doesn't look like much now, but this is the coop the hubby and I started this past weekend out of scrap wood we had around the property and pieces from the old God awful coop. I just got the shingles on the roof yesterday and we're going to be putting the siding on it this weekend...