I'd been asking my husband whether we could have chickens, on and off for years and he had had a laundry list of reasons for why we shouldn't or couldn't
until one day in early September 2018 when he said YES!
My husband and I enjoy hunting ... big game, small game, we even enjoy going fishing...
I just moved my 5 week old hens into their coop and run over the weekend. The coop is raised with a wood floor so I use pine shavings and its nice and dry and fine. The covered run has a concrete floor and the first night and day it rained and I did not have gutters so the rain dripped down the...
I apologize in advance...I think that I previously posted my questions in the wrong section of this forum....I'm new to this forum. :)
Good Morning!!! We're raising eight new laying chicks. My husband is converting an old garden shed into a chicken coop and we have a TON of questions. Here we...
Chick Newbie here...
In a few weeks my 24 chicks will be moving out of the house to the 'big girl' coop (I CAN'T WAIT but that's another story). LOL!!! :-)
I have not yet decided on what type of bedding to use in the coop and have read a great deal of conflicting advice re: sand vs. shavings...