I thought i read somewhere that they can't handle hot weather? Is this true? I want to raise some during the summer, it will get to be in the 90's even in the shade.
We have currently been moving ( by hand, 53 chickens daily) from their coop to a run, daily.
The current coop can not be hooked up to a run, so we are building another coop somewhere else on the property that can.
That being said, we imagine this run will get depleted of greens and turn into a...
Would something like this with a roof and laying boxes be ok for laying hens?
Wondering if they NEED an enclosed little coop or if something open like this works just fine as well.
Hey yall
I'm building a coop and trying to determine, should I use hardware cloth around the bottom 3 ft of the walls and then a 1x2 welded cage wire for the remaining middle/top of the coop walls? The hardwire cloth I'm looking at is 23 gauge, the description states that it is for "temporary"...
I'm with you... I've been searching for a grainery and or a cereal grower in my area that carries or grows organic..no luck at all. Honestly I think of I were able to find one, buying the pre mixed and bagged feed would be a better price per LB, those feed producers get a hefty bulk discount it...
Great question, id love to read some folks experiences on growing grains for their chickens and how the dried/processed... and everything else there is to know about growing your own chicken feed! :)
Hey yall
Im looking at ordering a 1000lb tote of New country organics grower/broiler feed.
They are out of VA.
Has anyone used this company and this particular feed? Id love a review before diving in... If no one has a comment I will probably buy just a few 50l bags first, which im sure is a...
Hey yall
I was just reading in " Storeys " chicken raising book that when chicks scratch and peck looking for food in the bedding this means they are overcrowded, cant get to the food source and are bored. Further, leads to disease because they end up getting coccidiosis.
I thought it was good...
I've read that the temperature of our brooder for our less then 1-week old chics needs to be 95 degrees.
if this is achieved by room temperature is a brooding light even necessary?