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I have added 3 new hens and I'm nervous whether they will find the tube feeder. I'm not sure their past feeding history but most likely didn't include tube feeders. I've been leaving pellets right under the tube feeder for the last few days. It's only been a few days since I got them. Can I...

I know this questions get asked a whole lot but I'm starting to get concerned. Her behavior and eating habits are unchanged. She's a real good hunter. I have logs around my fenced in area that I move regularly which provides instant bugs. The only thing I've notice is she is not eating worms...

I have a large enclosed area for my chickens to roam. I use logs to surround the insider perimeter of the fence to keep predators out. I have always temporarily rolled a few logs a few feet each day and let the chickens go to town. They would love to eat the worms. Over the last week they have...

If the nesting boxes remained in the same place would you add a ramp from the floor to the nesting boxes?

Thank you guys for these ideas. I like it. Everybody on these forums are very helpful !!

So there is 3 boxes and 2 roosting bars in the enclosed section and 2 roosting bars in the open section. I have 4 hens altogether. The two senior ones have been sleeping in their boxes when I got them last year. They were from a large farm that kept their chickens in pens in a barn. No coop etc...

I actually just bought a slightly larger one that I could walk in that has three nesting boxes and 2 additional roosts in the walk in area. However they continued to sleep in the box which I have read isn't the best thing. There are two roosts directly above the slide out tray. I have been...

I read about that type of approach after I put them in. Although I have a lot of open space for them it a coup that maxs at 6 but I have 4 now. They seem to be tolerating each other a bit more now.

The ground portion of the coup actually has two roosting bars as well. It's not a huge coup but I've had 4 in their at once. No room for additional roosts but the two hens actually sleep in the nesting boxes. Cant break that habit and eggs aren't poopy because I thin we remove daily.

Hey all, I've been in the backyard chicken game for 2 years. I have a good setup with a very large fenced in area of 40/20 feet. Coup is open for chickens to come and go. I've had some issues with foxes and belief I'm now fox proof. I recently had a hawk fly through the bird netting, they killed...

The lost bird was a Plymouth Rock. So more electrolytes, bushes, containers of water with frozen bottles of water. I think just having a tube for water, although always filled, is a bit limiting. I will try extra tubs of water and hope for mud. Thanks everybody for your helpful comments and...

This is the second summer I've lost a chicken to what I believe is heat stroke. I have a 30 foot fenced in area and thought I have provided enough areas that have shade. This summer I have put a huge tarp with poles to widen an area for shade. There is constant water supplied in a tube feeder...

She was actually the first one to find the water tube and went in the coop the first night. I will try that thank you!

I believe this is their first spring of laying eggs based on the info from the farmer. Their combs seem fully grown. The pullet did lay an egg the second day I got her. I picked up the group a few days ago.

I believe this is their first spring of laying eggs based on the info from the farmer. Their combs seem fully grown.