I am anxiously waiting to find out if we have hens or roosters. They will be 10 weeks old this Monday. I do have my suspicions though, there are 2 that are much larger than the other 2 and every now and then I hear a sound from one of them that almost sounds like crowing but not quite. Also if...
So just to be clear in my open coop/run I can have their coop that is covered by 3 walls just have a roosting bar and underneath it will be the ground and I plan to cover the bare ground with wood chips. My hope is to have compost for my garden.
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I am new to raising chickens and have a question about the roosting bar and poop board. I am currently building my coop it is 5x10 coop and run attached. I am wondering if I need to put a floor under the roosting bar. Couldn’t I just let the poop fall to the ground so that the chickens...