Taking Care Of Your Chickens

[aart]

Don't crowd your chickens. Make sure they have a large enough space to run. Does your chickens eat rapidly within a hour their feed is gone? Well that can't be a problem anymore! Make sure you feed them at least 3 bowls of chicken feed, and plenty of scraps, rice wheat (all grains), broccoli, carrots (cooked or shredded), cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, pumpkin, spinach, sweet potato and tomatoes. Nesting homes! Depending on the size of your chicken you will need to find out how big, small, tall or, wide your nesting homes will be. But within 4-6 chickens your size nesting homes can be 12 inches, height 9 inches, depth 12 inches. Fence up any protective areas such as gardens, open spaces (that will allow them to get away) or very messy places. Your chickens should be very very happy if you follow these helpful notes!

Not so helpful... really...sorry, but....
A good chicken ration with balanced nutrition should be available every hour they are awake. All those other foods/scraps should be offered as treats once in a awhile, less than 10% of daily feed volume.

Nests for laying eggs(I think that's what you mean) should be taller than 9"...
.....at least 12" but 16" is better to accommodate nest bedding.
Did you know that a chicken stands up as the egg comes out?

Oh, and, Welcome to BYC!
Please start a thread hare:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/new-member-introductions.44/create-thread
For a proper Welcome and to share what your chicken keeping experience is.

 

[Mckennas poultry]

You have beautiful chickens! But I don't think it's a good idea that there could be foxes and badgers around. May I question is there is a roof above the chicken coop that may protect them from getting hurt?

The coop is fully secure and it gets closed every night, my smaller chickens like to take to the trees and there has never been any problems, we have a guard dog to protect them.

 

[ButtersTheChicken]

The coop is fully secure and it gets closed every night, my smaller chickens like to take to the trees and there has never been any problems, we have a guard dog to protect them.

Well Thats great that they are safe! My chickens (5) get attacked my birds (magpies & crows) And I feel very bad for them

 

[Mckennas poultry]

Well Thats great that they are safe! My chickens (5) get attacked my birds (magpies & crows) And I feel very bad for them

My chickens have fun chasing the dog
I guess they’re all different...

 

[ButtersTheChicken]

My chickens have fun chasing the dog
I guess they’re all different...

lol

 

[ButtersTheChicken]

Not so helpful... really...sorry, but....
A good chicken ration with balanced nutrition should be available every hour they are awake. All those other foods/scraps should be offered as treats once in a awhile, less than 10% of daily feed volume.

Nests for laying eggs(I think that's what you mean) should be taller than 9"...
.....at least 12" but 16" is better to accommodate nest bedding.
Did you know that a chicken stands up as the egg comes out?

Oh, and, Welcome to BYC!
Please start a thread hare:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/new-member-introductions.44/create-thread
For a proper Welcome and to share what your chicken keeping experience is.

Well, first it's good for the chickens to have scraps It will give them energy and nutrition. But I'm not sure why you'll come to my page and just say that. I get it *It's not very helpful* but at least some bits of it is. I know two chicken specialist's so I think they'd agree with my information.

 

[ButtersTheChicken]

My chicken eats so fast that is sneezes up food and can't breath well??
What should i do?

There might be something in the food. Or It might be how long you have had it, maybe they need new food or they could be possibly be dying. How old are they?