Thank you so much for the warm welcome. I got to visit the girls today, they are so much bigger than I expected and for all the craziness in their world, they laid eggs! I was not expecting that. One of them is very small, she looks like a juvenile, when I can I'll snap a pic and post it here to...
The tractor I was drawing out sounds similar but portable. I may go in that direction. A local friend who raises meat chickens keeps them in something that is almost completely open, like yours.
I have a friend that uses a tractor and now I'm wondering if there's some way to use the coops I have and make a tractor with them, or if I'd have to start from scratch.
I'm not even sure where to get cattle panels (or what they look like), so I'll have to look into that.
These chickens have been sharing a tiny little coop, it looks maybe 12 sq ft, but they were free-range, so I don't know if that makes it easier for them.
I was going to take the chickens out...
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I'm in VA. It's humid, very very humid. The winters are sporadic, so temps jump from 60 down to teens and back in the space of a week. Yesterday started out in the 60s and ended up below freezing. Summers tend to stay above 75. It is wet all year round. Wet cold, wet heat. Thankfully, these...
Preparing a home for seven adults chickens. I have a small yard in a neighborhood. We have coyotes, bobcats, and the standard neighborhood critters. I have a decent coop coming, but if I attach their run to it the space will be very limited. What I want to do is have a portable run that I can...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I was just given 7 laying hens, all over a year old, by someone who can't keep them anymore. I'll pick them up as soon as I have a safe habitat for them.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Almost seven.
(3) What breeds do...