Hello!
I am hoping for some advice!
I have a flock of 18 with 2 roosters. I have 5 silkies and other breeds like Pekins and some hybrids.
It’s been awful weather in the UK with rain at the moment and the silkies keep getting drenched!
They have plenty of shelter but unlike the others...
I live in Washington State, not far from Puget Sound. Our microclimate tends to be a bit warmer and drier in the summer and colder and wetter in the winter than most of western WA, but overall temps are moderate and winters are mostly chilly and damp.
My coop floor is concrete pavers dug in a...
We started getting a lot of rain since Saturday evening and now our chicken yard is all muddy. Some of our hens have stopped coming out to eat because of the muddy yard so I've been going and giving them food but I would like to make it nice enough for them to come out.
Any ideas on what I can do?
Well howdy do one and all! Here we are at the end of another week! I’m sitting here in Southern California enjoying one of our rare treats — RAIN! This is my absolute favorite weather! I love when the chill rolls in and opening our windows to hear the storm. But just as sudden as I heard that...
My 3 chicks (10 day old) and mother hen are living in there own run with a coop/run that they sleep in on the floor. I let them out in the morning into the bigger run. Today is forecast heavy rain and I'm wondering if they will be ok. I have created a few little sheltered areas but will they...
This is simply a curious question.
This summer it's been super hot, 105° even after the sun is down, yet we've gotten lots of rain (thankfully).
I have noticed, that the day AFTER it rains, my chickens don't drink anything. There's no puddles in their run so I know they aren't drinking off...
Here in north Florida we have a lot of rain and a lot of bugs. So I wanted to share what we have done to help keep the mosquitoes, gnats, and flies out of our coop and run. Mosquitoes netting! It is a bit of a pain to roll it up to let the girls out and to collect the eggs as this mesh will rip...
Hi everyone!
I am brand new here, and only have had my girls for about a month. They are ready to move outside but I am having the hardest time deciding what to use in the run of my coop. I have 4 chickens, and live in Charleston, SC. It rains A LOT here, especially in the summer/fall. I...
Hi all!
Recently we have had an outrageous amount of rain - WAY more than we normally have. It has been non-stop and will continue off and on for the rest of the week. We have our coop at the bottom of a hill and our coop has gotten extremely flooded. It has gotten flooded before and I have...
The chicken coop is finally finished! The run is not, but the chicks are currently in a large dog crate and could definitely use the extra space the coop will allow. I was hoping to move them to the coop today but it's a rainy cool day(65 degrees, not too cold). Is it fine if I move them out...
Currently we are using straw as the bedding for our chicken coop. We live in Washington where its always raining so the weather is always wet and cold (snows once a year if we're lucky). I was wondering if there is something better out there we can use for our chicken coop because straw smells...
Yikes!! Just got a thunderstorm with some 70 mike per hour wind gusts! Nothing to badly damaged, thankfully! We have a missing hen, but for now I’m not too worried, she probally found a place to hide until it was over. I was working in the coop, to suddenly be hammered with sudden wind and rain...
First off, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place. I just wasn't sure where to put it. Right now, I'm so frustrated..:barnie Someone please tell me how we're supposed to build a chicken coop when all it's been doing is raining (over 3 in. just this morning). 10 in. snow last weekend. Rain...
Good afternoon everyone!
My wife and i recently built a larger coop for our 20 birds, switching from 3 smaller tractor style coops to an 8'x16' walk in coop. A very nice upgrade. However, the area we had to construct the coop (my front yard) holds a lot of water during a rain, typically the...
We live in north central Arizona, 4200 feet altitude. Have five Magpie hen ducks and two Buff, one drake and one female duck. All quit laying last September 2017 and no eggs for 4+ months. We changed diet, searched for something that might be disturbing their fenced coop, cleaned coop more...
Hello, Backyard Chickens Community!
I could use some help troubleshooting my new coop setup.
We have a coop with poop boards. I lined the poop boards with Easy Peezy (a horse stall freshener, similar to PDZ just a different brand). It's been raining every single day for over a week. Every...
A huge downpour of rain recently means that my (usually dry) chicken area in my garden is swamped! I am not sure what to do!? They seem happy enough but I am scared of them having constant wet feet and becoming more cold because of it, which also might make them more prone to mites etc!? I have...
I was wondering, do you close your ducks into a duck house during the rain or do you let them stay outside? I am having trouble getting them inside, because they enjoy the rain a lot. For now, I'll let them roam around in the rain and get them inside at night if they don't go themselves. They...
Woke up to a rainstorm yesterday only to find out 30 minutes later that we had lost ALL 14 of our 3 week old Muscovy ducklings. We free range our birds, but they were with their mother in a place that should have been safe, but when we went out to do chores, they were all dead and their mama...
My chicks are about 5.5 weeks old, and love to go outside every day for several hours to forage and take naps in the dirt. We are almost done with their coop & run, but for now, they're still sleeping in a brooder in the garage. My question is: is it OK to put them outside in their "playpen"...