excellent advise, i'm less than 6' and the coop will be 7' on the back and 6' in the front so i can stand up in it....nobody has their chicks in stock yet i'm hoping to get some this weekend
good day fellow chicken farmers! been almost 15 years since i've had chickens....planning on building a new coop for a dozen new recruits. I'm in central florida so thinking of an open design appx 10'x10' w/ hardware cloth on the bottom half and chicken wire on the top. Can i get away with...
thanks for the info! Eddie just started crowing last weekend, I think he's just a beautiful bird. Here's a photo of him and his ladies....
//i think the buff orpington might be a roo aswell
excuse my ignorance, this is my first go round raising chickens and I'm curious of my young brown leghorn rooster is supposed to have white ears and is getting white tail feathers, is this normal?
I thought about Eddie all day stuck in his brooder alone:( So i made a makeshift pen for him next to the girls and he seems to like hearing their voices, actually they just started clucking for the first time when they heard him "cheep cheep", probably just a coincidence but possibly a mother's...
you say ur not trying to start anything but then you insinuate that if our chickens eat animal protein they are being raised immorally? me thinks you are the one that needs a lesson in tolerance my friend:)
i cant wait till he gets bigger and feathers out and hopefully gets all the colors of a brown leghorn rooster, he better be real pretty for my wife to put up w/ crowing
low in the low 60's high in the low 80's in central florida right now, i'm thinkin of partitioning some of the coop off and putting him in there and see what happens.
//i have him in a shed in half a dog crate w/ heat lamp right now, i do have a wire dog pen i can put inside the coop like you say.