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As of last October, I had three hens. Star (black sex link), and Jersey (black jersey giant) were laying almost every day and had been raised since chicks together (along with one other that disappeared last summer). The third henr, Mary (Amerricauna) was only a couple months old. They free...

I know this is old, but replying as I just had this happen to me, and searched to see if it happened to others and ran across this. In my case, when being questioned by Liberty Mutual, they asked if we had any pets... I said no, other than chickens that don't come in the house. He asked how...

They didn't. I just did another search and put up "lost chickens" flyers around the neighborhood, on the random chance someone knows what happened. My wife's theory is neighborhood kids took em, but makes me wonder what they'd do with them, I'm sure their parents would wonder where they came...

Two (of 3) of my chickens weren't in the coop tonight. I just spent an hour with a flashlight looking around in the field behind our house (that they often hang out in, but usually within ~30 feet of their hole in the fence, usually right next to the fence under a tree) with no signs of em...

My understanding is if you feed them scraps them you must also offer them gravel/grit or they can't digest it. I read that on this forum in multiple places. The only thing I'm having difficulty finding is gravel & grit meant for chickens, that's why I'm wondering if the 'mineral grit' stuff is...

On the left is the box from what I got at the supermarket, which was basically fine sand. On the right is the "mineral grit" from a local feed store. Picture isn't very good, hmmm. Anyways I think it's the right stuff?

Thanks much, will do! My understanding is that first egg (based on hatch date of feb 11th) won't be until sometime in June. Their doors are opened every morning and they immediately run right out. And hand carried back every night after dark (dunno how to convince them to go back by...

Since they found a way thru the side fence somehow into neighbors yard, seems they're bored with our yard, so thought they might want more space. Other benefits include less poop in our yard, and they'll probably find more bugs or whatever it is they are pecking around for when they're out so...

Thanks. The back fence I'm going to open somehow for the chickens is a tall privacy fence with horizontal 6" wide boards. Behind my back yard and everyone on my street is a non-maintained field currently filled with patches of tall grass/weeds and patches of wood chips the city must have put...

On an unrelated note, today they somehow figured out how to get under the side fence to the neighbors yard. So to discourage that, I opened up my back fence, which behind us is a big open field full of tall grass and wood chips, with the hope they're old enough to know to come back later (and...

Y'know I had that worry based on responses from my first thread (this thread is my second). I was considering eating/trading the biggest one to solve it. I posted in the NorCal area seeing if anyone wanted to trade me for a smaller variety, and basically what I interpreted from the responses...

Thanks a lot. I've got the food scraps sorted. And sure enough, onion is certainly a vegetable I don't eat the peels from myself I hadn't thought of. Basically I now understand the feed to use no problem there. Will supplement with oyster shells until I switch to layer food when they start...

Thanks for replies. The only reason we really thought of changing was cuz I was worried the coop was too small if the birds were giant. I dont even know what normal size is. The coop has two 1'x1' roosting boxes and a 2'x2' area with two roosting bars and there's a 2'x6' run. I think we'll...

Hello. We live in San Jose and just started with chickens. We bought chicks at Half Moon Bay Feed & Fuel as I called around and the SJ stores didn't have any. When we drove there, they had one black sex link and quite a few black jersey giants. We took the sex link and two of the jersey...

Thanks so much. I really appreciate the responses. So I'll figure out something to keep their feed dry. They are eating some of it, as I've seen it go down a couple inches in the feeder since I filled it. Still haven't opened the new bag but will do that when this gets low, probably...

Thanks again! There was some some poop in one nesting box and in in two areas so at least one, probably two, stayed up there at least a while last night. But yeah makes sense they wouldn't climb up in the dark unless they were familiar with it already, and yeah with the light out and boxes...

Awesome. Thanks. Will open the bag as soon as they finish this starter stuff, if they ever do. They get so many kitchen scraps they've pretty much stopped eating the feed. I'm still wondering if its okay if the feed gets wet (rain, yard sprinklers,etc). I went to a couple feed stores...

After removing the heat lamp and re-assembling the nest boxes earlier today, I just threw the chickens into the coop (thru the nest box) a few minutes ago. I did buy the store bought liners for the nest boxes. Like the past few nights, they'd picked a random place in the yard to huddle up...

Wow if that's right, I'm lucky they're not dead already. I leave the peels on potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, etc, and fed them those leftovers multiple times and they're still alive. Is it a particular vegetable you mean? I can't think of any vegetable I peel actually, we leave peels on...

I got a PM this morning when I posted this had to be an april fools joke (telling me why my post was deleted), so I wasn't worried. Seems not everyone even got such a message! Cheers!