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We have ~50 chicks that are 4 weeks old today. Up til now, they've spent their lives inside their permanent mobile coop, converted to brooder mode inside our unheated pole barn. Next week I plan to move the trailer out into our garden area, run an extension cord to it for the heat lamps, and...

I do not yet have any mites. Brand "new" coop, assembled almost entirely of metal. Perches are sou shugi ban wood and the floor is plastic, but with the exception of a few parts that can easily be removed, the entire thing can be torn apart and blasted with a torch or weed burner if necessary...

I have a flock of young chicks that will be moved out to pasture and be shifted around my farm when they're old enough. With most livestock on a forage-based system, supplemental minerals are provided. With the chickens eating less commercially prepared chicken feed and more bugs, grass, etc...

28 Chicks arrived this afternoon (shipped yesterday afternoon, all happy and healthy). Their distribution in the brooder area is a little odd and I wanted to get someone's take on it. I have 2x 250 watt heat lamps. It's a lot, but they're in an unheated metal pole building that can get cool...

It is for all intents and purposes complete. There are a small handful of finishing touches that need to be completed, like covering wavy cut lines up with furring strips, and covering up a few small gaps where a mink might be able to squeeze in. The roost bars need to get installed, but I...

We are finally at the phase of our small farm where we are ready to add chickens. I have a small trailer that I picked up at an auction that I've been cleaning up and modifying to house a flock of layers. The long-term plan for the flock is transit the less steep areas of our farm alongside...

I've kept chickens before in a suburban coop environment. We got rid of them before moving cross country to a big piece of land we are developing as a small hobby farm. I'm presently building a mobile chicken coop trailer to house a few dozen chickens. The coop will be night digs only, and...

I bought this beast of a trailer at auction over the weekend. It's homemade, assembled almost entirely out of angle iron and square tube. It's extremely robust. My intent is to turn this into a mobile chicken coop. I'm going to tear the wood floor out and put in expanded metal mesh or 1/2"...

I am leaning towards cockerel, but holding out hope that this one is a pullet. I would love some input. Still no pointy hackle or saddle feathers but it’s still young. Comb Ian the same size and color as the 2 definitely female ones. I’ve done a ton of image searches but haven’t been able to...

I got 5 straight run ameraucanas. Two of them I was sure about being cockerels, however I don’t know enough to be certain about this one. I would love some insight.

Picked this one up from a feed store about a month ago, however it was noticeably larger than the other birds I picked up from a breeder that were just hatched the day before (maybe 2x the size, fully feathered wings) so it is probably closer to 6 weeks old. It is still much larger than the...

I am not yet in this situation, but want to have a solid game plan for when I am. I have an enclosure with a converted dog house that has been set up as a community nest box. I have 4 girls and am hoping to try hatching out a dozen eggs sometime this spring if one of them goes broody. I have no...

I've read of hen feathered cockerels, but I have a langshan mutt with pointy hackle and saddle feathers, but I am about 99% certain that it's laying. Additionally, it displays no cockerel tendencies, and a hen in the flock has taken over as the rooster, mounting other girls and drawing them...

Had an easter egger and a red sex link for a few weeks(I was getting regular green eggs, and then a couple of soft shelled brown eggs laid from the roost). Purchased 3 "new" chickens(all chickens came from the same people this summer). The new chickens are what looks like a black langshan (but...

I have a flock of 5 birds and initially got chicken watering cups, which they took to quickly. Upon further research, I realized that the cups will freeze when the temperature drops (duh) so I picked up some horizontal nipples and added a bucket with horizontal nipples into my run. The...

I am feeling pretty confused right now. We are fairly new to the chicken game and just starting to get the hang of things. Below are our chickens and what I know about them. All were purchased from someone nearby with what seems to be healthy, if not slightly overcrowded birds, probably not...

New chicken keeper, still working out what's normal and what's not/what causes things. We are living in the suburbs, and the only way my husband is tolerating my need for chickens is through getting and keeping "quiet" ones. Obviously the egg song and random cackling and whatnot makes sense...

We built an enclosure for ducks initially before getting ducks and determining that they are definitely not the right fit for us. Ducks and chickens have different preferences and needs though, so after giving the ducks to a neighbor, I had to retrofit the duck pen to work for chickens. Here...

I just have 3 hens for now, but I'll be adding a few more. So far I am totally in love with my langshan, so I expect that the majority of my birds will be on the larger end. I'm building a community style nesting box and wanted to cut an egg-shaped hole in the front as an entrance. What...

I am in the planning stages of replacing the hacked together temporary nesting boxes in our cool with something a little better designed, attractive, and permanent. I have read about the roll out style boxes and it seems like a great design. Is there any reason to use a more traditional design...