Yes - leave the light on overnight. At that age they should be at approximately 95-100 degrees at all times. Red heat lamps are the best as they are less stressful when you leave them on all night. Each week the temperature can decrease by approximately 5 degrees, but you should still look to...
A client of ours just got a letter from the city about keeping unpermitted animals. Has anyone else in this area received a similar letter? Do you know if there is anyone heading the fight to change the ordinances in RPV?
Our rules of thumb for chicken housing:
1 nesting box for every 4 chickens. They are community nesters, and like to lay where other chickens have laid. Even with other open nesting boxes, our hens still pile on top of each other in one box.
4 Sq Ft. per chicken in the coop. This is a...
The Weathertop Coop is an all natural coop with made with Redwood, with a cedar shingle rooftop. The coop is 4x6' with two roosting bars, pop out nesting boxes, large double doors, a large window, and a pop door with a ramp for the chickens to get to the run.
Thanks for all of the comments! The siding is hardie board. The entire soffit area under the roof is open with wire so there is tons of airflow. AS far as the plans go, we built to a design and didn't have any formal plans drafted.
Fort Malibu
The coop and run are extremely secure from all types of predators, egg collection is from the outside and the coop has storage for all of the feed and supplies needed for the coop.
Quick Sketch Up of what the coop is going to look like.
We buried 1/2 welded wire a foot...
Dare 2 Dream Farms!
We are a small family owned and operated farm. We raise and sell many breeds of chickens and selll farm fresh eggs to the local marketplaces. It has been a rewarding experience and we have learned more about so many aspects of farming, construction, plumbing, electrical...
We are a small chicken farm that sells the eggs at our local natural marketplaces. We have been growing faster than anticipated due to demand and needed to come up with a transportable coop that would allow us to replant our fields and prevent overgrazing. We are new at chicken farming; less...
One of our friends who we delivered chickens to has a little girl named Prima who needs your help! She is about a year and a half old. I have seen her, but can't identify the problem because the symptoms don't seem to match up. Here's what we saw, and the symptoms she told us about:
At first...