My grandson has 6 chickens. Before they started laying I would look out and he would be out there at 5:30 am watching for the first egg. The first one came at 18 weeks and soon all but one was giving him his brown eggs. One of them gave him a double yolk and then two eggs a day after that. At 22...
I had about 2000 bricks that I wasn't sure what I was going to use them for. They were perfect to lay over the top of the hardware wire. My grandson cut the wire to make a 2 foot wide area around the coop. There are times all four of the grandkids are sitting on the bricks watching the chickens...
It is 110 degrees here again today and it will at times get to 120 before it cools down in the fall. I have ice in the water and a shade screen. The coop is under a shade tree. Just went to Home Depot and got a fan. The gals are 12 weeks old and talking to me about the heat. They are panting and...