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  1. Sungrove Farmstead

    The Hen House is complete!

    They don't - I had thought about it but didn't want to add another level of difficulty to making them, as I was a little impatient! If they work out without dividers, I might take the fronts off and make some sort of tray to slide out if I feel like I need it
  2. Sungrove Farmstead

    The Hen House is complete!

    yes, chicken wire inside (cheaper) and hardware cloth outside, buried in the ground and heavily secured for potential intruders!
  3. Sungrove Farmstead

    The Hen House is complete!

    I am very excited to share my shed/coop conversion -- I sectioned off nearly half the shed for the coop, and the rest will get some actual built-in storage eventually for all the animal and garden items. I have never built something this big, I did most of our last coop after my husband did...
  4. Sungrove Farmstead

    Chick Heating pad?

    So...apparently I am raising baby chicks indoors now (weren't planning to this year) - my last 3 broodies are being mean to chicks (one had all of her eggs taken after killing 2 chicks) so now I am removing chicks as they hatch because I don't have an incubator but I'm not risking losing more...
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    Help! Mom pecking at baby chick

    Well -- ended up moving the other girls to kennels, and put the chick and eggs under the one who has actually been sittting the longest -- chick crawled under her and she didn't fuss, they have been swapping nests and eggs for a while so who knows which started with which! I plan to just keep an...
  6. Sungrove Farmstead

    Help! Mom pecking at baby chick

    I heard peeping outside, and went out to find a chick in the underneath run of my elevated coop - I hadn't moved hens yet, I didn't think they were so close to hatching! But I think what happened was mom kicked her out of the nest box or something - I found a different hen in her box, and her...
  7. Sungrove Farmstead

    How do the chicks get back up to the nest with mom?

    I recently had a hen sitting in the elevated coop and had to move her - I kept her and chicks in a cage until the chicks were about a week old, now I let them out during the day and close them in at night (because predators!) I put out non-medicated chick starter and often the other chickens go...
  8. Sungrove Farmstead

    Faverolle with multi-colored eyes?

    I noticed today that one of our fav Faverolles has a multi-colored eye! I have never known chickens to have weird eyes, normal? Cause it’s pretty cool
  9. Sungrove Farmstead

    Half Wyandotte, half ??

    I am pretty sure that the barred rock or Maran cross is the one in the middle on the last picture because of the coloring on the wings (and is that a dot on it's head?) - are you looking at that one, or the single one in the middle photo?
  10. Sungrove Farmstead

    Half Wyandotte, half ??

    My faverolle successfully hatched and is doing good with “her” 5 chicks, though she most likely stole most of her eggs - 1 baby is a barred rock cross, but any guess what these guys are? Rooster is a black Wyandotte, hens could be: Faverolle, Rhode Island Red, Wyandotte (I think) based on the...
  11. Sungrove Farmstead

    Creating a half-shed coop from existing shed

    I'm not worried about being able to lock it, just latch and open it from both sides...I really didn't even know those were a thing..I'm Lol, I didn't know someone actually MADE something like that, GENIUS - thank you for your replies, i am totally going to swap out my chains for these (seem a...
  12. Sungrove Farmstead

    Creating a half-shed coop from existing shed

    Is that just a wire that feeds through the wall? Genius! That's a real fancy version of what I did on the inside doors
  13. Sungrove Farmstead

    Creating a half-shed coop from existing shed

    Yes...he didn't want pants and wouldn't get out of the photo, typical! Haha Idk, because they I have to figure out how to build all that in? Lol, I don't know how to do that part (though, I suppose it can't be THAT hard right?) The gate latches work there, I have them set up with a chain to...
  14. Sungrove Farmstead

    Pop door size question

    Possibly dumb question - What is the need for a small door, just because of predators? weatherization? or is there another reason?
  15. Sungrove Farmstead

    Keeping Older Hens

    We free range, so food priority and such isn't really an issue - my oldest girls are only 3, still lay everyday and they rule over the younger crop...I pay attention to the personalities of all of them so yeah, will be interesting to see if the dynamics change, with large animals I feel like...
  16. Sungrove Farmstead

    Keeping Older Hens

    We plan to let ours live out their lives, and get some new chicks every 2 years to keep the laying going...we have them for pets as much as egg production
  17. Sungrove Farmstead

    Testing My Dogs with the Flock

    Honestly I never really thought about it? The dogs have been around all sorts of animals at my dad's farm, when we added chickens, it wasn't a big deal -- often when we throw out food scraps you will see the chickens jumping at the dogs to try and steal their food! And they are both cattle dogs...
  18. Sungrove Farmstead

    Roosters & their own Chicks

    Yeah - I guess I am look at possibly 1 "generation" of inbreeding - I guess it could escalate to 2, but I'd definitely intervene at that point with a rooster swap or something...this is the first time we will have chickens related to each other in this flock Also - I mean, this girl is hatching...
  19. Sungrove Farmstead

    Roosters & their own Chicks

    Well that is pretty far - I guess I'm looking at possibly 1, and only if we get hens from the eggs that decide to broody later (or a rooster/mom situation) so thanks - that makes me feel a lot better I mean, we aren't breeders here -- we have pet chickens that we use for eggs, We are doing new...
  20. Sungrove Farmstead

    Is clipping feathers necessary?

    I don't really think it's "altering" much, it's not like declawing cats...and for their safety, worth it -- but I honestly haven't done it, ours are free range, but some of them will fly up 8 ft on top of the truck or the shed roof - so if you want to keep them in a short fence it might be the...
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