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Often they will calm if you clamp their wings down and hold them horizontally with their backs down. Good position to check the vent too.

They are most definitely easier to catch once they are asleep on the roost. They see very poorly in the dark so are not going to fly off into something they can't see.

Thanks for getting this back on track @Wyorp Rock

Careful with that fork or you'll be eating them WAY before they lay you even one egg

You want to scatter them a distance as well so the chickens can all get some without a "meanie" chasing off the less aggressive ones. Chickens are pretty stupid with regard to that. Throw a bunch in one area and all the girls run to it. Then throw some off to the side and all the girls run to it...

A man should be good at his profession :gig Heck, you live in warm Tucson with high concrete block perimeter walls. With that secure run, your coop could almost be a few roosts in a covered area! And you have months to procrastinate making the nest boxes. ;)

Um, YEAH you should! Bobby ;) Of course you ARE doing it the right way. Get the cute little chicks, then start on the coop. They are just little things after all, can't grow that fast, and you can knock that coop out quick, right? :gig Ah the trap that has gotten so many before you :D I was...

That is a nice large brooder, how many chicks do you rear in there?

You snooze, you lose! Especially with chickens. I have my scratch in a 10 gallon pail. When it is pretty full and I leave the lid off while I toss the 5 oz cat food can of scratch in the coop for the chickens, I'll have 2 or 3 beaks helping themselves to the contents of the can when I get back...

Sure glad I don't use them anymore @BantyChooks! SO many things that were "safe" originally, then found not to be later.

:welcome @nelson7 :D Presumably the temp for the Teflon to start gassing is high enough it shouldn't happen in cookware. However, in my experience, that "everything slides off" coating becomes an "everything sticks to it" coating after a few years of use. And you can't fix that so into the dump...

:gig:lau LG's chickens are spoiled. Chickens will eat almost anything! Mice are certainly in their size range. I've heard of people's chickens eating frogs ... whole. One of mine found a dead and drying out toad in the grass and was trying to eat that.

But you can't SEE his feet, he has his fancy shoes on :D

Great suggestion. It isn't one I've seen before but sounds like an easier and chemical free way to kill off mites.

I think painting the roosts helps against mites because there are then no tiny cracks for them to live in.

Black Oil Sunflower Seed. I had to look it up when I first saw it mentioned back when I joined ;) I buy it in the big 40-50# bags, keep it in a 10 gallon metal can with a lid and "locking" bail and give them some every morning. They get scratch at night. Nothing like bribing your chickens. :p

Snow on the ground out in the run? My girls pretty much skip the snow and stay in the barn alley. No snow? they are out all day long. If there is no snow in the run, then maybe bribe them out with some BOSS or scratch.

He's huge! Sure looks like he has fully recovered from his ordeal and is comfortable with his new flock.

Free is good! One can put up with less function for FREE. I've never seen a free headlamp though.

EDIT @lazy gardener EDIT!! I know you didn't mean HEAT lamp!! We got ReVolt Headlamps (Black Diamond). Kinda expensive but the batteries are rechargeable and there are dimming features as well as a red light feature.