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I bought a house 6 years ago... turned an existing 8x8 garden shed into a coop last minute 4 years ago. Didn’t know much at the time and made many mistakes! Currently the coop is infested with rats and about ready to fall over! Wanting to build a brand new coop in a new location and want to...

So i have like a 8x8x8 coop with 10 hens and a rooster, but they free range on about 6 acres. Anyway i used to have 3 roosters but 3 was too many and i had major aggression issues with the roosters as bees but kids esp. So i got rid of 2 of them and kept the dominate roo since we had little to...

I posted a couple weeks ago about cracking an egg open and losing the chick. Now I finally have a successful chick attempting to hatch. there is a corn kernel size hole that the chick has made. I've never hatched chicks before. I have three Broody hens sitting in the nest boxs with the rest of...

Never hatched eggs before. Have hens that are very Broody so I left a couple in the try it out. I dated them 5/16 so they should have hatched around the 6th. Today I went in the coop to check them out and I was missing one and the other one was pushed to the side of the hen so I thought maybe...

I've had my coop for about a year-and-a-half now. We converted an old shed that was on the property before we bought it into of the coop. It has a wood floor in and was on cinder blocks originally but it's been so long that it's basically settled to the ground. Long story short we started seeing...

I have 17 chickens right now of a slight variety. I'm thinking most are red sex linked and all med to large in size. Anyway, I promised my 4 year old some chicks this year. I want something different than we have, friendly, tolerant of the cold and a relatively good layer. We only get brown...

New chicken mommy! How common is it to have covered chicken runs? Our run is about 25x35 ft. I've only had the chickens for the winter so I'm getting really excited for the summer. I know how much they like to be outside when it's nice out now, that I'm dreading locking them in at night in the...

Hi! First post here! Only been a member for 5 minutes lol! Looking forward to some awesome feedback! This is a long story so I'll make it short if possible. Built my coop in late fall specifically to save some egg layers from being butchered. They arrived at my house while I was not there. I saw...