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We will be picking 8 cornish rocks and 4 broiler chicks next week. Hubby is building a tractor this week. It will basically be a rectangle with wheels. What height should it be? Hubby thought 24 inch high would be tall enough, but altho I've had layers for over a decade, this is our first time...

Since I began chicken raising several years ago, I have ordered my day old chicks from a hatchery. They've been terrific, and over the years I've even had 100% success rate on sexing the birds Today for the first time, I picked up started pullets from the same hatchery. These 4 month old...

I picked up 9 chicks on May 15, 2012 from Meyer Hatchery. I've had great luck with them through the years - out of 25 chicks or so, all have been successfully sexed . My current group are growing nicely, and include Copper Maran, Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Columbian...

Just thought I'd show some picks of my new chicks.. I went to Meyer's Hatchery on Tuesday to pickup the 5 chicks I had ordered on Monday...somehow I came home with 7 babies, lol! You gotta love that chicken math!! I have new EE's, 2 BCM, Buff Chantecler, and SLW. All doing well in our layer's...

I went outside in the afternoon and cleaned the droppings board, collected eggs, and brought the waterer in to clean and refill. My chickens like to sit on the edge of the threshhold board and look outside and view the thick white blanket of snow covering the ground. (God forbid they actually...

This will be my 2nd winter with my chickens. I have an 8x8 coop that held 15 chickens last year. In December, I lost two birds in the run due to predators...the first was a fox that climbed the run (2x4 welded wire) and got inside and then two days later, a hawk killed another bird! The...

Ok, so for those of us needing more egg cartons - Eggcarton.com has a free shipping deal going on untill October 22. I just purchased some "seconds" on the clear egg cartons. They are the old fashioned 3x4 style. The only problem w/them is that the color is not consistant, some are clear and...

I've been averaging 10 eggs or so a day for several months - often 12 or 13 from 13 layers. But in the last month I had one bird unexpectedly die (unknown what was the cause, other than it had been very hot and humid, even though birds were provided with shade, water, etc) and bird that went...

I recently posted that I had a 1+ yr old hen who I recently determined was blind in one eye. Shortly afterwards, she was being severely picked on by the head BO, and I put the BO into "chicken jail". The rest of the flock did well with my 1/2 blind hen, and there was no problem. For the last...

Due to a serious attack issue of BO on an injured Wyandotte, I had to take my three 14 week old girls (2 Welsummers and an EE) and put them in with my older girls (1+yrs old) while the culprit was placed in Chicken Jail aka mini-coop that had formerly housed the babies within the coop. Now the...

First, a little background...My main flock of 12 have been together since peeps, and are now a little over a year old. In May, I added 3 day old girls. The babies have been housed in the coop since they were a month old in a hardware cloth divided area of about 2'x5' in dimension. About a...

Yesterday afternoon I went out to the run to let out the girls for their daily free ranging time. After opening the run, I shut the pop door so that the hens will return to the coop when dusk sets in. Laying under the ramp to the pop door I found my 1 1/2 year old Speckled Sussex hen, dead...

We picked up 2 Welsummers and 1 EE a week ago today from Meyer's Hatchery. My dd thought it would be cute to see the chick up against a prop, so we used her Eifel Tower statue for height comparison. The fist picture was taken when the EE chick was about 24 hours old. The next was when she was...

A year a go this month, I got my first 3 small chicks (2 week olds). Less than a month later, I bought 7 day olds, then 3 weeks later - another five 1 day olds! We lost 2 to predators over the winter, so of course, we had to replace them...and two seems such a small number to introduce to the...

I have 13 chickens. All were born in May or June of 2009. They started laying in the fall between 20-24 weeks old, did well til winter when production dwindled to 3-4 eggs a day. Once the days lengthened, we are back up to 10-12 eggs from 13 girls...quite nice:) But they seem to be going...

After having our chicks grow out of the brooder, we placed them in the chicken coop and used a droppings board that was cleaned regularly and deep litter throughout the rest of the coop. After 7 months, we are doing our first major clean and disinfecting. I have a couple of questions: 1.) Is...

After finding the waterer frozen a couple times in our northern winter, I purchased a heated plastic waterer from Meyers Hatchery. It has been working great since I bought it in November. While bringing it inside on a 5 degree morning to clean and refill it, I dropped it on the stoop edge...

My daughter works for a small animal vet on college breaks. It's amazing how a animal doctor has no concept of chicken life:D But she has a good cat/dog practice. Anyways, we sent a dozen eggs in for her a while back, and the vet is hooked. She e-mailed me to say she had a store bought egg...

We've had our chickens since April. We think a fox just discovered this fact. Our chickens have access to their run from the coop from around 8am till I'm done with work, around 6pm. In the summer and fall, it was still light. Now, it is dark by 5pm. At 6pm, I went to tuck the girls in and...

My girls have been laying for 3 months or so using the 4 nest boxes. I collect eggs 3-5 times a day. Yesterday I found one egg on the floor. This morning I found two broken under the roost on the droppings board when I opened the coop in the morning. Then at 6pm I found two more eggs on the...