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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 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!

, member: 530033"]Hi Peeps! 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...

Quote: Thanks , I have one hen that is a good silki so I will not be breeding the TSC silkis.

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...

Congratulations on a job well done!

I got 4 straight run blue silkis in June and Last year I got a Black roo from Meyers Hatchery. You can pick up your order if you want. It's a neet place to visit.

This is Fluffy, He is double the size of my hens but its mostly fluffy feathers. The humidity here in Ohio can really do a number on the chickens so in the day I let them out to find cool spots under the bushes. I need to put a fan in the coop for the broody hens even though I take all their...

Just an update on Drew and Logan on their science project, They did take a 1st place ribbon and they each got a plaque. There were more than 1 first place winner because of the different catagories, so going by their point system they were third highest in points out of five 7th grade classes...

Did somebody say goats!? Goats are great pets, they do not graze like sheep they eat woody stuff anything and everything so if you have landscaping you will need to fence it in!. My first goat was bought for it.s milk. My 2 month old son could not digest cow milk or baby formula. Her name was...

I have 3 cochin roosters in my flock and have no problems with them. These birds are big and could do some damage to a small garden. My cochins and small chickrns (sultun and silkies) all get along just fine. Thanks to my silkie for being broody I now have cochin and silkie babies. Total now...