Do you leave food and water in your coop overnight for a period of time while the chicks get used to being out there?
They’ve had food and water overnight in their brooder since I brought them home. I am about to officially evict them. They are 6-ish weeks old and almost fully feathered, and I...
Our chickens are not eating. We have tried to give them food but they do not eat it! We have switched them to layer and they have eaten it fine the last week or two and now the won’t eat. They will eat cherry's and scraps but not their food which provides the most nutrients for them. And they...
Our chickens have been very good but until a couple of days ago they have completely stopped eating their food. We went to layer a week ago and they ate it fine and now they won’t eat. In their run is always old food that they never eat. I do not want them to starve themselves.
We finally have our coop mostly done and worked out a few kinks. We have 14 chickens so our coop is fairly large and we did make the coop and run high enough that we can walk in for ease of clean-up.
Our coop is 7x8 and our run is 16x7. We used pressure treated wood for everything in the...
My chickens are around 6 weeks old, and I was wondering when I can move their food out of the coop, and place it permanently in the run. I feed them "scrarch and peck organic chicken starter" and plan on transitioning them to "scratch and peck organic grower" when the current 40 lb bag runs out...