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I belong to several chicken groups and Ive seen a pattern. I will preface this by saying, I helped raise our first flock of chickens 50 years go. We would raise between 50 and 100 birds a year. This year we are at a new location and I built a new coop and run for 24 dual purpose birds. Raising...

We would like to free range the chickens in the summer but the eagles, hawks, coyotes, foxes, weasels, etc means we would likely suffer some losses in the flock. If I cant let them get to the outside salad bar, I will bring a salad bar to them in the run. If these two boxes are a success, I...

The latest chicken coop accessory I made for my wife. We will be raising 24 birds and the coop is nearly completed. I hoped to make her life easier. I wake up some mornings and roll over in bed and look at her and think to myself, just how lucky she is.

Are you mentally prepared to raise animals? After all, this is a matter of life and death. I was raised on a farm. We raised beef, chickens (lots of chickens) pigs, rabbits, pheasants as well as a massive garden that fed the 8 of us. We lived remote/rural. Likewise we hunted and fished for our...

Im in Forest county (N.E. WI) Im wanting to buy chicks in the following breeds and qty. 8 Black Australorp (female for egg production) 8 Barred Rock (female for egg production) 4 Delaware (mixed male and female and would keep a rooster around) Im ready at this point for chicks and see I can...

Do you foresee any issue with combining the two breads in the same cop and run?

I want a very large and meaty bird to eat that is also a good egg layer breed. All i read about dual purpose birds is that they are normally good layers (hens) but even the roosters are not that big and you have to feed them for at least 6 months or more so which are the big meaty birds that lay...

As we continue to turn this piece of woods into a homestead One of our first steps was to clear land for a garden. Phase one was to clear a quarter acre of maple and ash for a garden space. Because we heat with wood, All those trees will become fuel. After the trees and stumps...

And so it begins. Ive designed the coop I want to build and I have begun construction. I will post the build pics here as I progress. We plan on 10 meat birds and 6 eggers. This will be a new addition to our new homestead. The focus will be on predator control (since we lots of them. After...

Hello, I was raised on a farm (but Im 60 now) and havent raised chickens a many years. We have established our homestead and Im now building a chicken coop for meat birds and eggers.