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I live in desert Southwest where it gets to 118 or higher in summer (about 7 months of heat) I found wash bottom sand works in my run and only shavings in nesting areas. We were blessed with a infestation of chicken ticks that was so bad we burned two coops to ground and started over (spared...

Love our mini Dino 🦕 kids!!

Well your little group sounds just like mine! We have 6 babies and 2 ducklings which my daughter and granddaughter thought cute to slip in with chickens! Chickens are omnivores so….mice are protein….yep eat them nicely. My daughter tells me that the ducks eat mice whole 😱🤢 not looking forward to...

My experience…now going on 9 years…predators have removed a few, chicken ticks took out half a flock (25), heat takes a few every summer(time to buy again) and winter is no problem they quit laying then mostly anyway, then I get to experience a crazy broody beast..let her hatch 90% roosters from...

Sounds a bit young...I probably would keep tossing her out of nest and not let her sit on anything...she needs to be a bit older..it got warm for a bit but will get cold..she will quit behavior when it gets colder..take all eggs out from under her....next broody cycle she will probably do it in...

I am thinking Owl...they pick a chicken out of enclosure without a trace..

Well...we did cute and the wind blew and the door and window (small one) opened and a coyote took advantage and we lost one of our two that day....I believe the best strongest is made by me....2x4 paint and bricks...construction mesh all around and under....I have built four....two had to be...

We have two, one is a special needs guy...he had a problem hatching and he has a limp, matured very slowly and is probably the most clumsy Roo ever ☺️ The boys did fight and Ivan (was Ivy til he crowed) did submit..his wounds have healed and yes they will fight to the death..

Well wait a while rehoming one is hard on That chicken even if it is a roo....that one looks like a hen tho?

I built this coop...we had 7+ hens in it and all I did was attach a long run to join our (then) two coops..worked well and is quite strong..has stood two years of Arizona heat, dust storms, weird wind and rain storms..we are building another coop and will abandon this one Due to last summers...

We lost our oldest hen today, she was hugging 5...called the crew in for night and Curious was a no show...found her by water trough just standing there...so I picked her up without a feather flying..and her crop felt full so upside down she went and..EEWWWW..Really nasty goobers came...

I have a dog run I am going to use..I really like your coop deign. We are abandoning our coop that I built 3 yr ago due to a chicken tick problem, hence the dog run. Do you have plans for your coop? I need to use as little wood as possible and will probably use milk crates for nest boxes, but...

Yes she can..keep,her warm put her with her flock when she starts to move about, fix her wounds so others won't pick at them..poor girl!

No problem as we aim to help each other I am getting the itch to build yet again..think my family will kill me

Wow! I envy your skills! I love building coops and have built three, each better than the prior as I learn from my many errors Now I am down one coop and need to really make a run so my one coop can handle the 9 hens should be only 7 that are in there. A good run may help them stay away from...

My new coop is clean too. I haven't heard of DE whitewash..I did hear that rain neutralizes its effect, so maybe not a good idea..keep it as a powder. It helps with odor as well as aid in protecting the hens/Roos. Some folks just dust all their hens directly. Here in the desert we get very...

Oh you will see them! Grayish in color, stealthily crawling up the chickens legs...you will see them if you have them. Indications that you do have them is black on edges of roost where wood meets wood, any area within a foot of the roost may have black debris on the wood. This is old blood...

I did post my rather criptic experience here somewhere but I will try the shortened version. Our rather traumatic finding of chicken/fowel ticks began in June. At that time we had three coops and 21 hens one Roo. We lost 7 hens when our heat hit no we have never ever lost that many in our 4+...

Not a chicken tick if seen or felt during day...chicken ticks must return to wood like Dracula upon sunlight. Any other tick perhaps but not a chicken/fowel tick. Ticks on chickens arrive from wild birds that gift them with critters of the night. They do not randomly arrive during free...

Meal worms is all I can say Our hens are trained well..just rattle a plastic grocery bag and they all come running..toss into coop a few handfuls of meal worms and TADA chickens in and safe for night. This takes a few times, but that reward system has worked for all our hens, the younger ones...