I agree, we are in the process of putting together a much larger run for when everyone is fully moved in, but I think we’ll have to be faster about it lol
The run is definitely not ideal, it’s a reclaimed run we got for free and patched together while we build a bigger, nicer run. You make a great point that there’s nowhere for them to “hide”, I think that would really help. I’m going to spend a lot of time today rearranging and adding things and...
Im not home right now but the coop is 4.5’x 5’, and about 7’ tall (it turned out a lot taller than we planned after we added the roof LOL) and has four roosting bars, and three nesting boxes that aren’t inside, they like hang off the side. There’s definitely a lot of room, I may end up...
Yeah I totally thought so! It’s vern hard finding info on Sapphire Splash chicks, apparently they’re pretty new? So we sort of followed the very basic hen vs rooster guidelines haha
I think this is kind of a tricky problem.
We got our chicks at 1 wk old, they are now almost 7 wks old. After we finished building their coop, my boyfriend and I bought 3 laying hens (the “Ladies”) from a farm to live in there in the meantime.
We tried introducing the chicks (the “Babies”) on...
Thank you! He sure is. He’s about the same size as our smallest chick, Magneto, but his legs are taller and bigger than both the buff Orpingtons. We joke that he looks like an ostrich especially when he stands up tall LOL