I have 11 hens less than 1 year old. I was getting 9 to 10 eggs a day until a few weeks ago. I now get 4 to 6 eggs, and one will usually have a small hole pocked in the top. I let my hens roam during the day if it's not raining. The weather changed to 80 to 90 degrees over that last month, but I...
It's been awhile since I dropped into the coop. My flock is doing well.
My girls were reluctant to use the nesting boxes until I changed from wood chips to straw lining. For some reason my flock prefers to sleep on roosting bars in the run rather than in the coop. My first flock did the...
Greetings Ya'll,
My pullets are 23 weeks old and a few have started to lay eggs but they are small ones. They have laid then on the ground in the run but not yet in the nesting boxes. I noticed they were creating nests in the yard out of pine straw so I put wheat straw in the nesting boxes to...
I had an earlier flock without a rooster, then add some chickens and a rooster, Under both circumstances my flock did fine and produced eggs. I lost my flock to some wild dogs and have rebuilt my flock from new chicks, I'm trying to decide if I should get a rooster or not. My new chickens are...
Greetings! What you have looks like raccoon fur.
I lost my entire flock, a rooster and 5 hens , to a bobcat early Easter Sunday morning in Leesville, SC. Is there a way to keep bobcats away without turning the coop into a fortress? I doubt it but thought I would ask anyway.
Hi! I live in Leesville, SC close to Gilbert. I have a few egg laying hens but an looking for some new ones to increase my flock. Not sure that I'm up to raising chicks so I'm looking for 12 to 16 week old hens. Anybody have any for sale?
I have a large coop, big enough for 12 to 14 birds with an attached covered run of 200 sqft. Around this is a very large enclosed but uncovered pen area for them to free range. The birds do not have their wings clipped and several of them will fly over the fence to roam the rest of the property...
I have a brooding hen that started sitting on a clutch of eggs for a few days, then moving to another, then another and finally selected a clutch of 10 eggs that she has been sitting on for 21 days as of today. I checked under her this morning and saw no broken or hatching eggs yet. The eggs are...
Hello You All, I have an older hen who decided to sit on a clutch of 12 eggs apparently to hatch them. She sat on them for about 7 days then moved to a nest with 3 eggs and started sitting again. Is this normal? I have a rooster and I know some eggs are probably fertilized. I candled the 12...