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I haven't posted in a while. My chickens finally started laying eggs about 2 months ago. It turned out we did have a rooster - we thought so but there was no eggs and no crowing so we weren't sure - although the questionable one was always larger so we suspected. Just about the same time the...

I should have described my chicken accomodations better: we used 2 XL dog kennels -- made out of coated metal not wire. The metal is rounded not sharp edged. Each kennel comes with one extra panel which we lie flat on the ground and put the hen house on top of it. That way there is no bare...

We named the smaller 2 Henny and Penny and the larger 2 General Sao and Kung Pao (don't worry we won't eat them just the eggs). We think one of the larger ones may be a rooster. They are such herd animals - only one will venture out of the cluster to go to a new spot or to eat (Penny). It...

Hi I'm new to chicken-rearing (actually don't have the chicks yet but have almost finished the tractor) and have a few Qs, We built our hen house without a floor - it is meant to sit on the ground with a metal mesh bottom -- is this OK? Or does it need a solid wood floor? We have an attached...

We built ours without a floor -- we put the wooden hen house over a strong mesh panel so that nothing can dig into it. I did wonder about whether it would be dry enough in heavy rains though. The whole hen house part is on the ground. We don't have any chickens yet -- wanted to finish the...

I have read in several posts about how people can use a plant pot or a litter box with sand and DE in the chicken tractor for the dust bath on good weather days. That makes sense, but I still have yet to figure out what DE is. I'm a newbie and barely finished building the tractor and don't...

Hi, my name is Delia. We finished building our first chicken-tractor recently and need to paint it before we get some chickens. Once we have painted it, I will post pictures. It will be cute. Delia