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Just reporting in that I have nine silver laced wyandottes as cute as cute can be in the coop in a wonderful dog-crate set up. I have secured the heat lamp in a hardware cloth chimney with FOUR wires, two to keep it from falling down and two to keep the chimney from rocking side to side. Next...

Again, much thanks. I am testing my light (with a shiny new red bulb) in the kitchen right now to check on how hot it gets at different distances. Tomorrow, I build a chimney wide enough to surround the entire fixture out of hardware cloth. I will put two metal dowels (okay, long bolts) across...

Thanks so much for your reply. It is very reassuring. My life will be so much easier if my flock will let the new hens integrate at 6-9 weeks. I'm kind of hoping that six of them will be enough of a force that they can handle it, but the area is small. I had to find a new home for my accidental...

I live practically in downtown Houston and have eight hens three (one bantam) EEs, three RRs and two bantam EE crosses. I am getting 18 chicks (six of which will be mine (3 Brabanters and 3 Silverlaced Wyandots) and 12 of which I will raise for a friend for 4-6 weeks). My hens spend most of...