I am hoping one of my two layers starts to set, all my chicken have been incubated thus far.
Rowdy the rooster, I watch old Rawhide shows on youtube, hence his name.
It took a bit of head scratching to build this coop, hillside and lots of rocks. The last coop I built was on level ground, and I could dig post holes!
I am amazed by the grazing frame concept, so I am trying it out on my hillside coop. Just started mine about 5 or 6 weeks ago, so not an old pro at it.
I built my grazing frame on a steep hillside, so the wire (2"X4" fence) is at an angle. I throw fresh picked greens on top of it for feed, the...
They love their greens, mine eat grain & pellets, until they get their fill, then off to the greens they go.
Kelp, what can I say, I live a few minutes walk from the bay. Kelp looked like a good winter feed supplement, plus it is quite nutritious. The chickens love the barnacles, snails and...
Just wanted to post a few pictures of my birds, and their hillside chicken pen. I feed greens to them daily, from kelp to comfrey, and many types of grasses and weeds / herbs.
The uphill end of the coop is going to be a covered greens bed, feeding on it to seed, fertilize, and I am adding plant...
Hello, from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska's rain-forest!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
It has been years since we raised chicken. last year we got an incubator and began again.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
We have 2 hens, a rooster, and 25...