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  1. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Ok Minnesota friends how do I help keep my chickens cool in the heat that we will be having for the next the days. I do leave the window in the coop open on nits that I know it's not going to Strom. I give them frozen yogurt has a treat.
  2. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    I will get one tomorrow since she and I are in bed.
  3. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Also can you help me to figure out what breed this could be. I got it from my nephew he has all his chickens and roosters together.
  4. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    I'm not sure if the young thing is a hen or rooster. It's about 13 to 14 weeks old. No crowing yet.
  5. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    She better started laYing again. They are free ranged but not utility they all have laid for the day.
  6. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    I have a question. I'm still new at the chicken thing I have a buff that has laid a egg every day since she started laYing a year ago. And it has been 3 days and she has not laid a egg. I did just add 4 new 12 week chickens to the group. a week ago. She did lay for a few days and has stopped...
  7. bear7298

    integrating new chicks

    I have 4 new ones and 6 hen that are a year old
  8. bear7298

    integrating new chicks

    I went and got some new chicks this year and they are about 8 weeks old, wondering when I could place them in the coop with my 6 older hens, right now I have them in the run but separated by fencing so they can see and smell but not touch, been that way for about a week,
  9. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    this is what I have in the coop is that x-mas rope light it's 25 feet long. do you think I need more. and do I have it coming at the right time.. this morning when I left for the lady's were outside at 630am
  10. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Hey Mn friends have a question still new at the chicken thing,,, has you know I have 6 lady's that about 6 moths old I got them in may.. but they have been laying really good up to last week I was getting 5 eggs a day and now I'm only getting 2 eggs, I know that they need light to produce eggs...
  11. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Ham Lake, Mn here
  12. bear7298

    greens

    what would be the greens to feed the girls during the winter months. right now I have a live feeder in their run that has oats and barley in it. thinking I want to do sprouts in the winter,,
  13. bear7298

    egg laying

    I have three nesting boxes for 6 hen all the same age , this hen was the first one to start to lay, and she did in the nesting boxes, for about 3 weeks but when the other started to lay she started doing this, I know that she is laying before the other's I go and check every morning and there...
  14. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    I'm thinking they dark enough the others are laying in them. I try to get it cleaned up right a way but now I leave for work before she lays, and I know they are eating the yolk out of it. how do I stop that
  15. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    so right now I place a box under her with hay in it that way the egg does not brake, is this the right thing to do or do I just let lay it and have it brake
  16. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    the thing that bugs is she used to lay in the nesting box every day until the other chickend started to lay then she started this, I have gotten 2 eggs from her only by putting box under her at night
  17. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    I have 6 girls I got them in May they were about 10 days old, we love having them, but I'm having issues with one them laying her eggs from the roost,
  18. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Ham Lake
  19. bear7298

    mn

    well my Coop is a 4X6 building with a 6X15 foot run off of it I have 6 chicken that I got this spring, I have 2 silver laced wyandotte, 2 Ameraucanas, one black australorp, and buff orpington, Out of the 6 I have 4 that are laying right now.
  20. bear7298

    Minnesota!

    Same here Ham Lake Mn
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