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I like your idea of a broody pen. I would love to see a picture of how you did it

Until you move on to larger pastures it sounds like you make very good use out of the space you do have.

Speaking for myself, DH is Dear Hubby...although occasionally it's dumb, but I'm sure he says the same thing about me (hopefully only occasionally) :/ As far as what we wish we knew before, this chicken math...we keep adding chicks but the housing as well. Our one fairly large coop has an...

Did you find any more?

Mine did the same thing the first time I put them outside for the day in a dog exercise pen. I turned around as they were walking right through the bars. I hadn't noticed the outside bars of each panel have a little more space, I was shocked they fit through. If I wasn't there at the time I'd be...

lol, I went through this, now we have an auto door opener that doesn't open until 8 o'clock (mine don't seem to be early risers, lol), by then they have done their egg laying. I think I wouldn't have minded so much if I also found a broody hen on the eggs but Noooo, they were just sitting...

I was going to ask this question too. I have 2 eight week old pullets. During the day I have been putting them in a 36" high dog exercise pen, inside our chicken run. Today I was alerted by a ruckus and ran over. One of the little girls had got out and the hens were pecking her. My roo was in a...

In all of our experience with skunk spray we found vinegar to work best.

It's hard to describe the smell of a skunk. As JennyF says, up close it's eye watering. We ended up having to trap them. Once my husband got a young one that was still able to get his tail up. It sprayed him in the eye. I wouldn't let him in the house. I gave him the jug of vinegar and made him...

I feel bad that this made me laugh. I'm sure your hubby still doesn't find it funny

lol, they came back a few months later saying they'd had a report of gunfire. No search warrant that time and again husband and I not home from work yet (you'd think they planned that part too). Daughter was just getting home, she handed them the keys and said "here, go look, if there was...

That was our question too.

We didn't laugh at first. We considered suing but were happy to put it behind us. That was 8 or 9 years ago. Now, we just shake our heads. Oh no, you would think at least one of them would have put two and two together on the alcohol going into the pond. A mistake that won't happen again...

I guess you could call it "other circumstances"...We had an old house on our property, the crawl space was inhabited by skunks. The cops mistook the smell as pot. I wonder how much their foolish mistake cost us taxpayers...never mind how traumatized our daughter was when 2 of the 20 cops had...

When we first started keeping chickens, before we got a rooster, we had a buff orpington step in to the job. She would herd them to safety whenever necessary. Never saw her mount one but she was an older girl we acquired her.

I have kept chickens for about 10 years but still surprised by how much I have to learn. With a little more time on my hands and hoping to apply for tax break by obtaining farm status, we are currently building a second smaller chicken house. I've had to remind my husband several times...honey...

I had a camera in our chicken coop before we relocated it closer to our house. I was able to watch them from our computer. However, the cops raided our property once thinking we had a grow op...they were wrong of course but very curious as to why there was a camera in the chicken house. I'm sure...