My husband hired a guy to build out part of our shavings barn for 8 chicks he bought in May. I love the set up, but it’s become obvious the coop doesn’t meet the needs of our little flock.
Pic 1 shows one side of the coop, the other side is identical with 8 nesting boxes in total.
Pic 2...
Seems like I have been working on this forever because I threw out my first go, because it was too flimsy, So this is my removable poop board 2.0. Space for two roosts above. I used two sides of an old Ikea bookshelf as the base and fastened them together with perforated plates. The sides are...
My Australorp suddenly started acting really down and quiet yesterday, kept drinking water (and pooping it out in very running poops), and while today she's gone back to eating and drinking like normal, she's now making white, watery poops like milk.
She's also been off laying for a few days...
Our 8x10 shed conversion and our soon to be constructed permanent 19x27’ run, currently just an Omlet fence.
Shed includes roosts with poop board, partial space under made into a introduction brooder which will then become a chicken jail for future use.
Also 6-16x16” nesting boxes which I...
Nothing like a case of the Monday morning shits.... Anyone know what this might be? I know there are a plethora of issues that can lead to the yellow poo, I'm not sure about her tucking her neck in, though. She's still up and a bout but she definitely isn't strutting her stuff like she usually is
INTRODUCTION
When we first got into chickens, we built a medium/small coop from scratch, after much research. Experience has a way of teaching that no research can quite match, so after almost seven years with the smaller coop, I had a vision for a new, larger coop, with improvements in mind...
I was using a cheap cat litter scoop to clean up my poop board, but it often left behind pieces of poop. I searched online and came across this item on Amazon. It's originally intended to be used in small reptile terrariums, but it works really well in my coop. The mesh is fine enough to catch...