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Thank you to everyone, we picked up some salmon faverolles and Silver laced wyandotte pullets, 4 of each so that we'd have 8. I let our older chicken out to free range and followed the advice. I made them a safe space, put their food and water under it and got them used to going into it, as...

Thank you both for your replies, I'll definitely give this all a try! Dave

In the spring I had three of my original eight hens left. We got brave and let them free range outside of the chicken tractor, and they'd be out all day while I was at home or work, then I'd put them back in at dark. Closer to summer, I was out mowing and a coyote was running as fast as it...

Hi, so I'm a little new to terms still, pullets are young hens? I'm just hoping to find one or two hens for laying, we wouldn't be breeding them. I showed my kids the breed and they thought the chickens were gorgeous, so we were hoping to add one or two to our small flock. Hopefully that...

Hi, I'm also near Nashville, I know this was posted a little further back in December, but if you have any you'd be willing to sell I'd love to try out this breed. I'm wanting to add a few more chickens to my flock and would love to get one or two. I live in Mt Juliet, east of Nashville but...

I have Buff Orpingtons, Ameracaunas and Easter Eggers and love them. They've all been good with the kids (we've been trying to hold them since they were babies), they run up excited whenever they see us, don't require a lot of care other than wanting to eat/drink everything they can and have...

Hi, Just curious about this, so if I have hens that are about a year old, I could put 8 week old chicks in with them possibly? I have a big chicken tractor that originally was for 8 chickens but I lost four of them. I'm wanting to do some new chickens this spring and wasn't sure if I should...

I did try the search feature and was trying to find results, but it doesn't work well for me or I don't know how to use it. I came to this thread and started going through it but there were 14 pages of results. I work a full time job, am a single dad and have a lot going on with my kids, in...

Thank you for the explanation. For you with 20,605 posts you clearly know a lot about chickens. I'm very new to the site and have trouble searching it, and have never raised chickens before. I grew up in apartments and have never had enough land to raise any kind of farm animal before this...

Just curious, our winter has been really weird here in TN. For the past couple of weeks in January, daily temps were in the 60s and even 70s some days. The chickens were eating their regular feed along with scratch and some veggies, compost from the house. Before winter four chickens were...

I don't think it's usable as-is for larger chickens. For really young chickens it could work as three holding pens if you cut the levels apart, or you could just take out the middle boards/mesh, take wire off of the back and lay it down to have a very small chicken run. Adult chickens would be...

You're right, I went out there this morning and after it only being 30 yesterday and then 20 degrees this morning the water was barely frozen. It makes a huge difference!

Btw, what are you using to keep the water from freezing? Hopefully it's not as much of an issue now, but I want to make sure if there's a good trick/tip so that they still have plenty of water to drink.

I had some leftover vinyl from a project and used that for part of the coop, then couldn't find 4 mil and got 6 mil clear plastic to finish it, at least for this year. The temperature is a lot better in there, around 60 vs 20-30 degrees outside and the chickens seem a lot happier/warmer. I...

Thanks! That info will definitely help. My son is so worried about our chickens freezing, and this will give them a warmer area for sure.

I really like the idea of wrapping the pen in vinyl, any tips for doing it? What thickness did you use? Thanks for a great idea!

Hi, on Meyer's Hatchery site, how do you find the older birds available? I went to this for example for easter eggers: https://www.meyerhatchery.com/productinfo.a5w?prodID=AMAS and I don't know how to find the older birds. Tips for a newbie to ordering? Thanks! Dave

Those are beautiful birds and the eggs look great! I had two Ameracauna's and hate that one died, I definitely want to add more of them and maybe try Olive Eggers as well. Do Hatcheries have older birds as well or just very young chicks? I'd rather have birds that were older and closer to egg...