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I give my girls a 5-gallon bucket full of weeds (mostly dandelions, and some mint since we have a mint infestation) every morning after I let them out and top off their waterers. They absolutely love it and it helps to keep feed costs down! That organic layer feed isn't cheap, even when we buy...

I'm in the same boat! We have four older chickens (two Delaware, one Red Russian Orloff, and one Barnevelder) that are twelve weeks old yesterday, and thirteen younger pullets (when can you start calling them pullets vs. chicks or hens???) that I believe are about eight or nine weeks old...

Update - giving him some Duramycin on our feed store's recommendation.

Hello all, We recently took a spare rooster from our neighbors (about four days ago). We got him in the evening and he settled in OK. The next day, he was crowing, strutting around, happy as can be. The next several days and today he's lethargic, labored breathing, shaking his head and making...

Granted, they were snuggled up in the corner between their waterer and the door instead of up on the roosts, but they were inside! We've got the younger batch in the big side of the coop right now, and when we let them out to start exploring their run this weekend I'll move the feeder and...

Success! We moved their feeder and waterer in there, and when I went out there last night they were already inside! Hooray!

Thank you!!

(Also, we always make sure they're inside for the night. No way would we let them sleep on the ground!)

We don't typically go out there after dark once they're in for the night since the coop is about 100 feet from our house. One morning one of them was on the roost when we let them out, but I'm not sure other than that; they loved the dowel roost we had in their brooder. I think the roosts in the...

Some background: we have a divided coop, with four chickens currently in the smaller side. We just put them out there about 2 weeks ago. Because we're dumb, we didn't lock them in the coop at first, just let them go out in the run as they pleased. They don't go into the coop/house on their own...

Although I think the bucket wins for sheer simplicity :) Thank you!

Okay, so it's much simpler than I was making it out to be! LOL. We have another cardboard box that I've been putting them in when I change the shavings in their main container. We're thinking of cutting a drawbridge-style door in the cardboard box, taking the chicks in this box out to a pen made...

There's five (we lost one, had six) and they're almost 3 weeks old. Starting to feather out really nicely and getting bored in their box!

Ok, this may be a really dumb question, but I'm new at this! What's the best way to transport baby chicks outside into a temporary pen for a few minutes of play time and then take them back in? Thanks to a few instances of pasty butt, they're not thrilled at being picked up, and I'm afraid of...