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That makes me glad I went ahead and filmed everything! I ran into several frustrating issues that hopefully you can keep in mind to avoid and learn from. Not huge stuff, but definitely cost me some time.

Hope it's helpful 😊

I put together a chicken tractor to put the chickens to work on the garden bed area and documented the process. There are bookmarks in the video and the video description if you want to see the process and jump around. I used just scrap wood I had at the house and pvc along with the fencing...

Our cat got into the chick room and killed one of our baby chicks. Her little sister escaped and hid. We found her and she is behaving like a normal chick. Eating, drinking, poking around but she constantly makes this peeping sound(see below video). Is this an injured sound or lonely sound or...

A couple weeks, we're getting chicks this weekend. I think I'll try that, the other hens don't seem to have a problem getting in the nest box to lay(it's a large shared one) so she's not really disrupting anything for now. I just know it will be difficult for the chicks to get in and out.

Long story short we've got a broody hen that we're going to try to give some chicks to. Our main nest box is not a good place for chicks. The fact that the other hens use it aside, it's got a massive lip and perch that leads to the coop then there's a ramp that lead to the run where the food and...

Fair enough point on the predators, although I'm not kidding myself about the HC. That's why it was added. I initially had nothing there and eventually the chickens got to where they could fly up and hop out. It was funny actually. And something that's not in the video is I also have a fan that...

Predators aren't a HUGE concern here so it the angled part of the run is more about keeping chickens in than keeps stuff out haha. I'm in south GA so I never have an issue with cold, during the summer I have a tarp that provides full shade.

Ok not chicken scratch, but wood haha. I tried to record each step, but time and logistics got away from me. If you want to skip to the final walk through recorded a couple weeks ago skip to about the 11minute mark :)

Oh I do, when I said I leave eggs I meant ceramic ones!

Luckily I'm in GA so it's barely freezing at night and of course a bit warmer in the coop so I have had to worry about frozen eggs yet :P

Yep! To the first question, really great nest box when they remember their training and I think you're probably right, I filled it back up with shavings again and found eggs in the nest again and no "naughty eggs". I'm just going to keep doing that until everyone is done with their molt and...

I promise you it's not space, I got the medium model for that reason. I literally can't get any bigger in the coop.

6 chickens total and "1" nest, but like I said it's the best nest box so it's plenty big and they've had no problem with it before.

This is the most aggravating thing. They all used the next box(best nest box for those wondering, works great) about 95% of the time with only the occasional oopsy egg. It's winter so they've slowed down and some have been through a molt, well a couple that have started to lay again now just...

Pepper and Brownie :)

I'm glad that didn't happen, I would have been really freaking out haha

Thank you so much for the reply! I figured it was minor, it was just scary to find. This is still my first 5 months with chickens so it's the first time I saw that.