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It's been a while since I've posted. The thing I dislike the most about keeping chickens is having to go out in the morning when it's 20 degrees to let the birds out. So I came up with this Rube-Goldberg style auto door. Sorry for the vertical screen shot while videoing. Enjoy. I looked...

I recently purchased some 10 month old BSL's. I'll go out to the coop at dusk to find only 2 of the 6 actually on the roost in the coop. The others seem content on roosting on the chicken ramp into the coop. These birds are definately larger than the RIR I usee to have. The first night I...

The Circle P Coop is back up and running. We got out of the chicken business about 6 months ago when we sold our house in the subdivsion and moved out to the country! I was down to one bird so I gave it to a friend of mine who has a nice flock. I loaded up the coop on a trailer and hauled it...

Noodle has gone broody! I've had her for a little over a year now. Saturday morning i went to go check for eggs and found Noodle sitting on the nest. She fluffed her neck and tail feathers up and let out a nasty screech. At first i didn't know what to think as she normally lays her egg...

Does keeping a light on at night increase laying during the winter? I have 2 hens... my first winter with chickens:/. ***Oops! I just found https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=597768 . Mods please forgive me.

I had alot of freezer burned foods. So the girls got some treats. I thawed a quart of potato soup (ham, celery, carrots, etc) just so it would slide out of the container. The girl pecked at that frozen block of soup like it was going out of style. So this morning I threw out about half a bag...

I left the house @ 5:00 a.m. to exercise before my shift @ the F.D. starts. I get a call about 6:30 from DW telling me the dogs had killed an opossum in the backyard! My wife HATES opossums. Snakes are to Indiana Jones as opossums are to my wife. I had to calm her down enough to tell that...

I read on BYC about using frozen jugs of water to keep the girls cool. I set a half gallon milk jug on its side under the coop, where my 2 hens hang out most of the day. We set it out in the a.m. and it's melted by the time we get home to let them out to free-range. Then...I got an idea about...

Last weekend I was mowing the backyard and decided to bag a couple of rows and throw it the run. We have to keep our hens in the coop/run while we are at work (lost 2 to the dog). So I thought they might like the extra greenery since their free range time has been dramatically cut back (after...

I get a call from DW this morning telling me I better come home. I'd just got off of a 24 hr. shift at the FD and had just clocked in at my 2nd job. Each morning my 3 y.o. daughter goes out and opens the run so our 3 hens can free range in the backyard during the day. We also have 2 mini...

I slid a leftover piece of masonite under the hens roosts last night. Made cleaning this a.m. a breeze. My hens free-range in the backyard during the day so they don't poop alot in the pen. Most of the "business" take place at night. Just pick up the board and scrape in the poo pail. Alot...

I work at the University of Mississippi campus and just saw a chicken free-ranging on campus! I attempted to catch it but it wouldn't let me close.

Will be getting 2 RIR hens. How much food do they consume in a day? Going to build a feeder... just don't want to over-do it. Thanks

I got started on the coop this weekend. First, I laid down some RR ties and filled in a yard and a half of wash rock (by hand with a shovel...WHEW!) to build up this area of the yard. It was always soggy for a few days after a good rain. My bro-in-law came over yesterday and we got after it...