Articles by HENS-and-MARES

This is my coop. It was here when we got here and it is a nice sized coop. Could easily fit 50 chickens in here. That’s how many we suspect lived in it originally. We have 28 chickens, 3 roosters that may be split up so it could end up with 26. We ordered a dog run for it and use electric fence...

It was about 6:00 pm. I went outside to close up my chickens, and geese. I counted all the birds on the perches only to find 9 out of my ten hens. Panicked, I checked all the nesting boxes, and looked around outside the area we had set up with electric fencing before looking inside their yard...