Spring 2017 first timers post!

[naturegeek168]

One chick decided she needed a couple of feather pillows to sleep on tonight

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

One chick decided she needed a couple of feather pillows to sleep on tonight

Sweetness!

 

[bellaisa]

Moved the brooder to the coop on blocks so the little can escape from the bigger ones.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

Working on being accepted into the flock!

 

[bellaisa]

The big girls were able to climb under the brooder.

 

[ToriD26]

Finally finished our coop and run! It's amazing that I gave my hubs a simple design and he made an amazing home for our girls (and one that I'm 80% sure is a roo). They sure are enjoying the sunshine

 

[ADVaughn]

Here are my last additions to my flock for this year. In front we have Tinkerbell (traded to me as an Araucana?), next is Butter cup (Sicilian Buttercup) and last is Lucky (sold as cuckoo maran?). They look like they're posing for an album cover or something. Lol

 

[ToriD26]

So now that the chicks are outside (at 7 1/2 weeks), does anyone have any good suggestions as to how to get them to go into the coop at night? The run is fairly secure but I trust the coop security more. I've tried to lure them in with goodies but they don't want to give up their outdoor time and I don't want to have to chase them around and stress them out every day at dark.

 

[AlynaD]

So now that the chicks are outside (at 7 1/2 weeks), does anyone have any good suggestions as to how to get them to go into the coop at night? The run is fairly secure but I trust the coop security more. I've tried to lure them in with goodies but they don't want to give up their outdoor time and I don't want to have to chase them around and stress them out every day at dark.

When I first let my girls into their coop it didn't have a door to the run yet we had to cut one but they were too big for their brooder and we were having pecking problems because they were in too small a space. So they were in their coop without a door for about a week and a half. When we first cut the door and they could go outside they would do it in little spurts and then go back in. I have never had an issue with getting mine to go in as it gets dark they usually start roosting about a half hour before sundown. Maybe you could try confining them for a few days to the coop establish it as "home base" then let them back outside.

P.S. When I need them all in the run/coop for some reason the jet spray from the waterhose works great and its not too stressful for them. I just chase them with the spray not actually getting them wet except for a bit of mist maybe.

 

[lilmarie84]

Hey everyone feels like it took forever for them to get everything up and running my girls and boy are getting so big they keep trying to fly out of the brooder anyone know what age I need to wait for them to be to be able to clip their wings cuz being in the city I need to keep them in my yard. They don't seem to enforce that rule around here cuz I have seen other peoples chickens running around the neighborhood but with my luck they would say something to me but I don't want them running a muck anyways