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I should look into the electric netting. We have a red-tailed hawk problem, at least now during migration season? We lost our first chicken to one. Our trees are mostly black locust and seem to have ideally placed limbs for the red-tails to perch on and stalk them. Of my original six, five...

As a fellow woods person, do you have any suggestions for ranging the chickens in the woods in a protected manner? I have a modular PVC mobile run covered in 2" plastic mesh that I've been using to move them to fresh vegetation (protects them from hawks, but only deters predators. It keeps...

Hi everyone! I'm from Delaware County (just southwest of Philadelphia) and have 4 ladies gearing up for their first winter in a big coop we just built. (It was 5 chickens until yesterday, but a neighbor's dog broke into our backyard and mortally wounded our Ameracauna in front of my...

What are your thoughts on moving a vermicompost bin into the chicken coop for winter? (I'd love to not keep it in my basement over the winter...) The bin is a standard set of nested, large heavy duty storage totes. I have extra space in my coop (7'x8' coop, 7.5' ceilings) with only 5 chickens...

Hmm, I'll see if I can attach pics...(all my coop pics are the in progress ones from our build process...I'll have to get updated ones at some point soon now that it's got windows and whatnot...) Right now, we have 5 12 week old birds, with the plan to eventually house a maximum of 12...

Thank you! This article is just what I needed! I'm fortunate in that I should be able to manage this set fairly well outside, aside from the fact that our permanent coop is already the most downwind part of our property...but I think I should be able to manage this pretty strictly and safely. 🤞...

😅 We're in a very different boat here in the Philadelphia suburbs. I'm looking at local chickens from 2 miles away now but trying to decide if I'd consider a few towns over and 40 min away (where it's more rural and there are more farms) local still.

Thanks, this is all good food for thought. We are considering hens from very local, where the woman just doesn't want to be dealing with chickens anymore. But I will definitely put more thought into the questions about their age and "upbringing" thus far to see if I can gauge risk. Curious...

How quarantine-y do you get when quarantining new chickens before bringing them into your existing flock? We're in the process of setting up a new mini-coop (12 sq ft, run underneath, moderately mobile), to hold newcomers before they join the main flock in the big coop (56 sq ft, walk-in...

If I get too nervous, I may end up making a modular PVC + netting mobile run to move about, but I really want to keep them "at work" doing bug clean up and weeding around the whole property, if I can. Do you use the expensive bird netting? Or do you get by with something else? I have a ton of...

Hmm..You're right, I hadn't really considered other predators because of the presence of the hawk. We have 6ft chain link or wooden privacy fence around the rest of our property (I do realize that doesn't keep out critters, but I figured it'd make it more likely I'd see the carcass or feathers...

I think I'm mostly posting for moral support, commiseration, and reassurance that I'll get over this feeling of shock and loss. I know this comes with the territory when free ranging and mentally have been preparing myself for about a 10% flock attrition annually, but maybe I'm kidding myself...