Hello chicken brains...lol!
Getting started with chickens.
I have:
French Black Copper Marans, Black sex links, and cochins
We live in Dahlonega Georgia in wine country
CluckyJayYesterday 4:15 pm
Oh man, I am so gonna make some of those next boxes. Super country chic!
The nest boxes were drawers from an old desk that had been painted pink. I just simply screwed them to the wall.
Great nest boxes! You may find that you need to move them lower though. Your gals may choose to sleep in them because they are the same height and higher than your roosts
Yes you are right...all three hens sleep in the same box together...naturally the highest one.
I will take your advice and...
We lost our first chicken last night. I put 7 five week old french black copper marans in the run with older chickens and they roosted on a firewood pile that I left in there.
Sometime during the night the poor little chick fell down between the woodpile and the chickenwire and couldn't get...
I lost my first chicken last night.
a five week old French Black copper maran was roosting on a firewood pile inside the wired run and fell down between the woodpile and the chicken wire and couldn't get out. this morning we found it without a head or feet. I'm sure being stuck pinned against...
Not yet and don't count your roosters before they crow when it comes to BCM's. The French Black Copper Maran is notorious for being very difficult to sex while young. From everything I've read so far, sometimes hens can take on seemingly male attributes in adolesents and Roos can really seem...