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Beautiful roos!

Would love to know how you keep roosters from becoming mean after they hit puberty. I have hand raised many chickens from day old chicks but usually I have to put the roosters down as they start attacking people shortly after they hit puberty. I have 2 gorgeous golden roosters (Buff Orpingtons)...

The roost has a typical 4 rung high roost made of wood closet pole, but found they prefer a shelf. So... I also have a 1X8 (Trex composite type material) shelf around each wall about 4 1/2 foot high. It is easy to scrap and clean.

nicely laid out coop!

I pick out their dirty or wet shavings daily, scrap the roost boards daily and wipe any wet messy areas off the walls when they are wet. I try to deep clean once the weather turns 60 degrees in the spring and again in the late fall. I use artificial turf nest pads in the nests and I shake those...

I am so sorry for your loss, You could put up a trail camera to find what kind of predators are picking on your flock. Minks, and owls take off heads and feet, hawks and dogs, coyotes, foxes tear off chunks of the body. We had a neighbors husky that jumped 5' fences easily and picked up and...

I give my flock alfalfa cubes soaked in warm water for 30 min which rehydrates and softens the alfalfa. They also get layer crumbles, oyster shell, and for treats they get a mixture of layer crumbles, scratch feed, mealy worms and sunflower seeds. My hens are in excellent shape and very content...

When I had a black snake problem in my hen house ( lying in the chicken nest) and several other areas, I got some barn cats that are feral. They got rid of the mouse population and then the snakes left and have stayed away.

Raise the waterer up on a lid or a small box so they can still reach it but it is a few inches above the shavings.