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Make a tunnel to the run. Buy a tradle feeder

I agree with Texasblues. Chicken keeping can be easy with a good coop, good run and a auto-pop door. The chickens go into the coop by themself around sunset. If the auto pop door is adjusted right on lumen. They will all be safely locked up inside the coop. In the morning the pop door opens...

I sure hope its a pullet. But Im not 100% convinced she is because of the bantam Sussex chicks I had last year. The male chick was clear very early because the breeder knew the colouring. But he developed very slow in relation to the male Vorwerk and Dutch I had too. Almost 12 weeks old...

Welcome Aaron! Great to read you see chickens as personalities. ❤️

Great post! ❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ I even can imagine the interaction/disturbance. What you can do for the broodies comfort and protection (if you like the idea): Buy 5-10 meters of hwc or 4-8 panels to make a fence around the coop where ms Speedy (Fez) is sitting. In the evening the other flock members will...

Egg candling broodies & incubator Yesterday evening before I went to bed (already tired) I candled eggs for the second time. 6 eggs under Black and Ini mini, candled 3 eggs: Took the first one out. I could see through 👀 There was no number on it. Then I realised it was an egg from...

This really sucks. My experience is: The cord is the weakest part of the chicken guard. I could roll off the cord quite a bit after it got worn out. I could cut the bad piece off without any problem. After a reset it worked fine again. You have to put it up in the coop to reset and check the...

Are you also trying to figure out the fertility rate of the eggs (rooster quality) ? Or just everything that involves a superb hatch rate with a broody ?

One of my hens (random) goes broody if I leave 4-5 eggs (or fake eggs) in a nestbox. In spring/summer. When I have a broody, another hen will accompany her within a week for a co-hatch. I don’t think roosters or feed is contributing. Biut health is very important. A broody has to survive 21...

I wonder what the purpose is of these questions? Yes, the chickens free range. Part of the day, sometimes 8 hours. But not every day. Yes, I feed standard layer feed. But other feed too. No, they dont stay in the coop. They have an auto pop door to a run. No, I dont give high protein feed...

I wonder if I should interfere in Tintins upbringing by Pearl. He is stil nurtured, sleeps in a nest-box and doesn’t roost at all. It’s about time he starts to poop from the roost. On the other hand it’s not inconvenient if he doesn’t roost when his mother leaves him. That way it’s easier to...

Tintin doesn’t want to roost either . First time experience for me too. He really is a strange cockerel. Part of it must be his mother upbringing. She doesn’t teach him to roost at all. PS the photo belong to a question in my own thread...

Im no expert in candling eggs, but I do know the dark spot should grow from day to day. If the dark spot isn’t growing the embryo is dead for sure.

No update. In this post I’m sharing my experience and solution with broodies who prefer to sit in a prefab where the hens usually lay their eggs. The nestbox/upstairs area in the prefab is a spot thats not safe without a few adjustments because 2 day old chicks can go down but not up a...

If you have a hen brooding in an impossible place you can do several things. Some tips/ideas (from experience and reading other broody adventures) If the hen sits in a unsafe place she might die from predation. If there are egg stealers there will be no chicks. Leave her to figure it out...

My wannabe roosters all had real rooster names. I don't give names anymore to chicks that havent told me what gender they belong to. In order of appearance: Tommy , Oscar , Quick , Tintin. None of these cockerels made it to become a rooster because:

“ You are about 6 months ahead of your time , baby!”

“If your Bday is in June, you really shouldn’t ask for snow”

“Who dunnit? Thats the question!“

“He human, please tell me, is snow in June a new kind of climate change? “