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Do black sumatras generally make good mothers? I would expect from mine’s personality she might not. Her name is Betty but I always end up calling her Karen. She seems inclined to go broody these last couple days. And I have a seven chick order from a hatchery due to hatch May 20th. I'm...

I have a garden and now I have chickens. The coop has a poop board with PDZ/sand that I scoop poop from into a 5 gallon bucket every day. I'd like to start composting the chicken's poop to help enrich my garden. As we live next to a steep wooded embankment, in the past all of our garden and...

Twice now, I've gotten my posting privileges revoked because of an email issue? Not sure what's going on because my email has been working just fine. I'm not using something like Gmail. I own my own domain and received no notices about issues from the hosting company I use.

I may have mentioned that it often rains sideways where I live. I've noticed that my nest box has had some leaks, but not from where the lid hinges. (I have a strip of plastic to attach over the hinge point of the lid.) I actually think the water is running down the grooves in the siding. That...

I want to put a small temporary brooder in my coop for the 6 chicks I have coming in May. I already have 6 pullets that will be one year old at the end of May. I'd like to brood the new ones out in the coop to make integration easier. The coop currently has a 6 ft long poop tray above the pop...

I have a 7-8 month old Barnevelder girl that from day one seemed to have GI issues. I was constantly cleaning her butt as a chick. As a pullet she'd occasionally have some runny poo and poo stuck to her butt fluff but usually took care of it herself and it was an intermittent issue. She's also...

Not really coop related but I’m sure someone here has dealt with this. For anyone who’s gotten the 16 ft cattle/livestock panels, how do you get them home? I have a truck but it only has a 5’ 8” bed. Can I curl up the panel to fit like an upward facing tube? Are they that flexible with out...

I'm putting together the plan for my poop board/roost build. I plan on having a 2 ft wide and 6 foot long poop board with a 2 inch high lip on it to hold in PDZ. I have 6 hens currently. My question is how high to build the roost over the board. I'd like to do 8 inches, but will that cause...

We are just starting our run build. The question came up of attaching the hardware cloth to the lumber on the inside or the outside of the run. What did you do on your run if you built with lumber framing and stapled hardware cloth on? And why did you pick one over the other?

I've always wanted chickens. I enjoyed helping care for the flock at the one stable I boarded my horse at when I was younger and a small flock my uncle had on his hobby farm. Finally being in a place to have my own little flock, I started researching and got 7 day old chicks this past May...

Has anyone used Wenger’s feeds? Or from the bag tag does this look like an OK feed? I work just down the road from Stromberg’s Wilkes Barre location so I had been buying feed from ADM (Pen Pal’s line) there. When I went this week they were out of layer and only had grower or gamebird. I went...

My shed/coop combo finally delivered yesterday. Its a nice solid shed that with a few tweaks will hopefully be a good chicken coop as well. My to do list went from "Wait for the shed to arrive" to: Need to build a better roost. Might move the roost they sent over to the nest box side so the...

All chicks hatched May 22nd so almost 15 weeks old. The silver laced wyandotte has the reddest face so far with the brown olive egger close behind. Am I getting close to seeing my first egg do you think?

Will pullets have completely finished growing in frame size (not counting fat/muscle weight) by the time they start laying? For example my silver laced wyandotte could start laying in about 4ish weeks. Will she be as tall and as long as she's gonna get by about that time?

I can only have hens and Marshmallow turned out to be a cockerel. He'd love to go to a good home where he can have a good life with some ladies. Located in northeastern Pennsylvania, just outside of the Scranton/Wilkes Barre area.

Someone in my flock of what should be 7 pullets crowed just a bit ago. All were hatched May 22nd so about 12 weeks old? I think, but I'm not sure it was this buff laced polish. I was standing quite a bit away from the pen when I heard it and they were all standing together so hard to tell...

Like everyone else, this summer has been grossly hot here. Our relative humidity can be high or low depending on if it rained lately or not, but I still picked up some misters for the chicken run figuring it couldn't hurt. I have a Wi-Fi timer for the hose that I can program to run how ever I...

We are starting to finalize our coop/run plans. I've already seen two LARGE raccoons sniffing around the temporary grow out pen the girls are in at the moment so predator proofing is a high priority. I was thinking of putting these metal panels framed in 2x4's around the entire lower walls of...

Building our permanent coop and run has had a few set backs and delays. I'm working on putting together a temporary run and prefab coop for my 3.5 week old chicks. I got a small run built and am just working on reinforcing the cheap chicken wire with hardware cloth around the bottom plus...

I'm still in the mad planning stages for my coop/run build and am reading everything I can get my hands on. I'm planning to roof my run and probably the coop with plain 31 gauge galvanized steel roofing from Home Depot. But what I'm not sure of and have no one to ask, is if I need to support...