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I have been losing chickens due to not having then in a secure place. We have had this place for about 5 yrs and now the coop run is falling apart. I would like to move them so that they are no longer in my husband's shop. I have an old round tube carport that I would like to use for the run but...

I have a 12 x 10 metal shed that I would like to use as a coop. I know I am going to have to insulate it and then cover that up with something so the hens do not cook in there. I would like to know if anyone else has ever done this, and if so how. I am planing on having an AC some vents and...

I have a few hens that no matter what they will lay under my house. I can get to most of them but they keep moving the where they lay. I just found 13 eggs(not sure how old some are) in a nest under my house. I have tried locking them in the coop for a few days but there are a few that get out...

My broody hen just went broody again and I am thinking of letting her have some eggs to sit on, but with it turning to winter what to do with the chicks and her after they hatch. I would be bring her in to the house for the broody time to keep the eggs away from my other hens. My big question is...

My son(Deathdrag-new member) and I have just set 60 eggs in my homemade incubator that is really only made to hole 48 or so. He is doing a extra project for his Collage Ag econ class and also figuring out what it is costing me to hatch and raise the chickes to egg laying age. We are very sure...

I hope this will make since. I have a rooster that came from a brown egg, a hen that laid green eggs, I am wondering if the chicks that hatch from the eggs will lay the color they hatched from or the color of the rooster came from. brown egg rooster + green egg laying hen= ? I really love to...

I have a big problem that I am facing. I have 16 2 week old chicks in my brooder pen now and I have up to 50 eggs set to hatch on the 24th of the month My grow out pen is just a old swing set frame with chicken wire around it. I would just put them int he coop, but I have 10 hens in there and I...

As I type this my chicken Lucky is in the brooder room, the safe place to be. I found the dog in the act of eating her alive. She is still alive at this time but I really don't think she is going to make it. She has a bit hole in her side and you can see her insides. She was the only hen I had...

16 for 16 now that is something I thought would never happen, but it did, with a little help. this after the glass broke too.

My husband bought non medicated by mistake and I don't want to waste it. I had him get medicated today for I really like to start my chicks out on medicated. I was thinking of changing to the non medicated at about 2 weeks or so. My chicks have a grow out pen outside that they go out to at about...

I got the eggs covered in front of the heater(wood). Got the incubator cleaned out. have plastic wrap over the hole the glass was and trying to get the incubator back up to temp. the way it broke was my cat sitting on it. I know that at least two of the eggs have cracks or holes in them. going...

I am looking for idea for inside our new coop that we are going to have to build and I do much better seeing than just have some one tell me about it. for a short time I am going to have a small 4 1/2 to 5 foot by around 8 foot coop till I can get a much bigger one. I know this is going to be...

I was not going to start up my incubator till after I move but being that I am going to be getting rid of a rooster that I have I decided to do away with it. I am not sure what the breed but from what I Have seen in pictures it looks to be a Wyndotte(sp) and I would like to have some hens from...

We are in the process of buying a house and I need advice on how to deal with my chickens. The place that we are looking at has a small garden shed that I will be able to use as a coop short term, but there is no run area. I will be letting them free range since there is 26 acres, but the...

I have looked for pictures of plastic sheds made into coops and have not found many, I really would like to see you ideas of using a plastic shed as a coop. The big reason that I am looking into this is that we are looking at buying a house and a few of the places that we are looking are not set...

I have a chicken that I have only had for around 7 month(not sure of her age at all) When I got here she was laying around 5 to 6 eggs a week. She got sick from my rooster over doing it and stopped laying for a time. She then go sick form the heat this summer and I saved her from that. She...

I have two roo's that I have no idea what they are. There is one hen in the last pic with Mr.Fancy Pants(RIR) that I am wondering bout. she(Cleo) is on the post. I am thinking seabright but I don't know for sure This is Oreo This is Mr. Fancy This is my RIR? Mr. fancy Cleo is on the post What...

I have 5 or 6 roosters that are around 15 to 18 weeks old. I have seen that one of them is pecking at the hens when they get close to the feeder to eat. The rooster is pecking them to make them back off the feed. I have also sent he roosters take the spots that the hens have dug as a bathing...

I lost one yesterday and then another one just now. I did not see what it was to well but I think it was a fox or something like that. I will have to keep them all locked up for a while an I really don't like that. The first one that it got was Tiny and today it was Blackie. I think I am going...

I got two eggs for my broody hen to sit on now I will see how long she is going to sit on them. She has already been sitting for about a week so I hope she don't give up. should hatch 9/21.