Recent content by Brooke Carson

I haven't really measured it except on Google earth but the upper coop has 4 nesting boxes per side and 2 roosting bars that can sleep about 6-10 chickens. The lower section is something we were hoping to expand eventually as needed, but there would still be one door because of the way the...

Sorry--I didn't make that clear. I meant it's about 4 foot by 4 foot and about 4 foot tall. It has protrusion nest boxes down each side and there are 4 of them per side and then roosting bars overhead in the middle area and there are 2 of them. They can hold about 6-10 chickens per bar...

And yes, I think we need to put them outside more but it's been super cold and windy and wet so we've been trying to wean them off of indoor heat a little more gently.

I'll try to get pictures later in the daylight. The coop upper section has 4 nesting boxes down each side and a 4 by 4 foot square of flooring with two roosting bars. The bars can hold 8-10 chickens each (depending on how snuggly they want to be) And then there's a ramp that leads down into...

The older ones--6 hens about 9 months old living in the coop outside. The middle ones--6 hens and a roo about 9-10 weeks old living in a brooder (huge stock tank in the house) The youngest ones--4 chicks of supposed female gender of about 4-5 weeks old living in the same huge stock tank in the...

We bring them out for a few hours at a time to the run, but the coop is attached and opened. We haven't really moved them out full time but were intending to just put them out for longer and longer times until they were fine together (however long that took). Since it was going well and since...

Maybe. I'd hate to try to build something just to have to take it down. We aren't intending to put them out there full time for a while, but we are trying to get them acclimated to each other.

I have a handful of younger chickens (they range from 4-10 weeks right now) and we're looking at eventually introducing them to the hens outside in the coop. Those hens are some 9-10 months in age. We take the younger chickens outside in the warm parts of the day and let them see each other...

Welp, he crowed (or tried to) today.

Thank you all.

This Buff Orpington came from TSC at the same time as the Wellbars and the Lavender and the other Buff. It grew a comb a week or two ago. We have 2 separate flocks at the moment. There are a group of hens living outside and a mixed group of sort of "teens", ducks, and chicks living together...

Thanks!

This is my first. It's been a long-time dream for me too. :)

Thank you all for taking the time to answer. :) We've been doing this for about 9 months so far and still have so much to learn! It feels like there's so much we still don't know. I'm going to take a look at the stuff we've been buying next time we need a bag and see what might be in it and...

Me! I'm an artist. I drew the cover for the book I'm publishing. :)