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  1. Mrs. K

    Need advice on flock expansion

    Looking at your run, this is what I would do. I would add a large piece of cardboard to one side of that silver ladder - platform thingy. I would put that in the middle of the run. Then I would add some roosts from the top of that out to the side of the run. I would put the two feed stations...
  2. Mrs. K

    Need advice on flock expansion

    Could you post a picture of your set up. If I wanted two more birds, was confident where these birds came from, I would take them and expect it to work. Quarantine is a good practice, but nearly impossible to handle in a true backyard set up, and if you don't do it properly - you may as well...
  3. Mrs. K

    Adapting from 2 roosters to 1

    At this age it is a crapshoot. There is a good chance that neither rooster will work out. I agree that pulling the rooster is apt to change the other cockerel, but the pullets will be calmer. You might need to separate the one you keep till the pullets are laying. It is slwsys good to have that...
  4. Mrs. K

    Moving Grown Hens to New Coop

    You are way out of my level of coop. Whatever you decide to do it should work.
  5. Mrs. K

    Newbie in Maryland; please help

    Just sit with them without moving just watching them. That is what most like best. They are prey animals so reaching them, catching them causes stress. Don’t do it. At the end of your setting, just toss a bit of scratch and leave. After a few times you can toss the scratch well away from you but...
  6. Mrs. K

    Rooster doesn’t like exposed skin?

    Do keep him penned or your kids separated from him, I would expect this to get much worse while you take the time to look. Roosters have ruined the whole chicken experience for a lot of kids.
  7. Mrs. K

    Hen Abandoning 2 Week Old Chick

    I agree, put the chick on the roost next to mamma. Sometimes I will put a board there, but you don’t have to
  8. Mrs. K

    Moving Grown Hens to New Coop

    Ridge runner is right is saying it might work, might not. Do be sure and check near dark. However, I do worry about the potential to over heat birds in July locked in a new to you coop. Granted it is a bigger coop, and not a lot of birds.
  9. Mrs. K

    Is this a terrible idea?

    This should work fairly well, strange to both groups, almost equal numbers. Be aware, be able to separate. But you might consider getting all the birds from one place.
  10. Mrs. K

    Moving Grown Hens to New Coop

    It is a great plan, but you don’t need to lock them up for a week if the coop is attached to the run. Birds should return to the last place they roosted. While I have seen this advice several times, it is really only important in coops with out runs. Then you might need to do this.
  11. Mrs. K

    Need Advice- How do I start a Bachelor flock?

  12. Mrs. K

    Is my rooster aggressive?

    With a 3 year old daughter who has already taken an attack in the face, I would cancel the straight run order. If you need more hens, order sex linked pullets. Raise them up a year, and then look for a rooster. Roosters are easy to come by. If your child and the chickens share the yard, I would...
  13. Mrs. K

    Protective Pullets

    Strike one is how I would look at it. IMO, you are leaving the darling stage of cockerels, and you have too many cockerels for your flock. I would expect his behavior to become more aggressive, he might not, but I would expect it. Don’t make excuses for him, judge him on his behavior, not...
  14. Mrs. K

    Polish chicken older hen getting picked on by the Rhode Island red younger hens?

    Pin less peepers on the meanie, or separate them.
  15. Mrs. K

    Chickens fighting over a preferred nesting box

    Block off the favorite nest so no one can use it for a few days.
  16. Mrs. K

    Hidden nest located, now what . . .

    Block off the under the steps, or put something in there that destroys that nest. One would think they would find a good place and stick to it - nada. I finally caved, as I have ground nests in the coop. I finally created a nice nest in a box that I could easily reach, and they were laying well...
  17. Mrs. K

    Yolk Coming From Vent Then Soft Shelled Egg…what should I do?

    Or you could do nothing... it is highly stressful on a bird to manhandle them down to give them the tums. It is very very common to have some misfiring when pullets start laying. Sometimes you get shell less eggs, a lot of the time you don't. When I first started, I rushed in. Then a respected...
  18. Mrs. K

    may 20-chicken has soft shelled eggs

    When people first start with chickens they expect perfect eggs like one gets in the store. It is not that commercial layers never lay an imperfect egg - it is just that the ones we buy are sorted. I don't think you are going to cure this, I think this is the way she is. Laying is much more...
  19. Mrs. K

    Introducing new chicks to older flock

    A lot of people have wide open runs, and there is a huge advantage to adding clutter. While that open space looks like maximum space it is not. It makes no use of the vertical space. Every chicken can see every other chicken 100% of the time. Add pallets up on blocks, so chickens can get under...
  20. Mrs. K

    My flocks! Give me some advices.

    Do know, that not all bachelor pads work over the long time. Some do, some don't. That is how cockerels and roosters are. Today's behavior is no indication what tomorrow's behavior will be. Being raised together has little to no influence on future behavior. Mrs K
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