I have a man door on my 4x8 coop perches are 4 and 5 feet off the ground. At 3 weeks old they followed the leader hen and were perching ever since. First time this has ever happened. Guess I'm lucky this year. Only have 4 hens. lost most of my chickens over winter from coyotes, fox, raccoons...
I lost over 40 chickens over the winter due to dogs, coyote, cooper hawk and raccoons. I had 4 hens and 2 roos left one hen went broody and two others joined her (all in the same nest) now I have 19- 2 week old chicks all free range. Now I need to get family to build a better hen house in a...
I am in Doylestown Ohio and have been raising chickens for the last 5 years. It started out as a 4 H project for a grandson and kinda grew on me. Grandson moved on to bigger animals and I inherited the flock!
I use cat litter boxes with tops for nests for eggs and I missed collecting for 2 days and found a hen sitting on the eggs so I let her alone. A several days later there were 2 hens and by the 14th day 3 hens were sitting on over 2 dozen eggs. They were crowded but got along. I was worried that...
aSilkies are my favorite to watch and I use 2 eggs to equal one lg. egg. Love to just sit in the yard with them and watch them hop around. Some have a very funny waddle.I have several breeds of chickens but silkies and serams are my favorites!
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I'm planning a coop build and I'm hoping to take a few lessons from the BYC community before I start. So, please share one thing you wish you had included in your coop.
Thanking you! :)
I would have more storage room to store the incubators and other feeding...
My family save the egg cartons for me, thank goodness! I do give eggs away now but I didn't before. Put up a sign with the price for eggs in BOLD numbers, it should help, if not just remark how much feed prices for your chickens have went up!
I have had black australorp, blue andalusian, cochin, buff brahams, barnevelder, sultans, silkies, Wyandotte and deleware plus some bantams, all are friendly to me or anyone with a feed container! some of my birds fly out of the fenced in area and others don't. I am in the snow belt area and all...
I ordered Silkies from Ideal Poultry and was excited to find them this early in the year. I was notified on Tuesday that they were shipped and expected them in 3 days or less. I notified our Doylestown Ohio post office of the chicks and they assured me that I would be notified as soon as they...
I will end up with at least 22 but hope to have the layers in a different coop which is 10 of the 22. I am so into hatching and forgot to think ahead about how many I can actually care for. Out of a flock of 56 ten will stay with a grandson, about 10 will be butchered so now I still have 16 to...
Welcome all to the Ohio forum. I am in Doylestown Ohio in Northeast Wayne County and just down sized to a 2 acre lot. My chickens used to be free range but now I have to pen them up, I feel so bad for them like, I just put them I jail!!! I need to build or buy a small building soon to house...
Last spring I got some silkis from TSC and they have a different comb than my other silkis. They have a single comb and wattles. I thought they were roos until the eggs showed up in the fair cage. How do I find out if they are not true Silkis?
I live in northern Ohio and had no problems with my silkis last winter. Have two coops for 40 chickens of all sizes and all were fine. The small birds stayed on a perch close to the floor and huddled together. Only had one roo with a touch of frost bite to his comb this year I will use an...