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Chicks are 5 & 8 weeks. They've been eating an organic mash, plus the occasional wet treat which is oats, collard greens, blueberries, and molasses mixed together, and some dandelions and seedy grass from the yard. They love all of this. All are healthy and growing fast. They've never refused...

Looking for suggestions of greenhouse models. We want the frame, not the cover. We'd discard the cover and replace it with 1/2" hardware cloth and a tarp over half of that. One end would be 15/32" plywood with a vent for airflow and the other would have a 30"x80" steel door (overkill but that's...

I'm asking about a confined flock, not free range, with fewer than 10 sq ft per chicken. I know bigger is better. 1. How many sq ft per hen do you have in your run? 2. Are your hens unhappy? 3. Are you constantly tending wounds because they attack each other? 4. Do you get only a few eggs...

If you wanted to add more square footage to an existing four panel hoop coop, and you could only add it to the sides and not the ends, how would you do it? This design adds one 4'x8' rectangle to each side, adding a total of 64 sq ft, but it requires cutting 36" holes in the 50" wide cattle...

We have a lot of pinto beans right now. I'm wondering if I can move some to the "chicken food" section of our pantry. Can they be sprouted for chickens to eat?

My Bielefelders are about a month old and in an outdoor brooder. It's 1:45 AM and 48F/8.8C outside. None are sleeping under the brooder plate. There are six of them and they still fit under the plate together but they are in a loose group in a front corner of the brooder, opposite the plate...

Our nighttime temps are in the 40s and 50s. The brooder has two 10"x10" brooder plates for 15 chicks. Does it also need an ambient heat lamp at night for new chicks (one and two days old)?

Do one-day-old and two-day-old chicks need light at night so they can find their way to food and water and back to the brooder plate? It's an outdoor brooder so we don't have any artificial lighting in it.

I'm having a hard time finding a simple camera to continuously stream video and sound from the coop to a desktop computer (not a phone!) about fifteen feet away. It also needs to have overnight recording and local storage. Wifi. Plug in power. That's it. It's not really a security camera as...

The outdoor brooder is solid wood on the top and bottom and sides. The front and back are mostly hardware cloth. It is 8' long by 3.5' wide and 3' tall. It sits about three feet off the ground against a wall corner and partially under an overhang. The back is against the wall (a few inches away...

I need to monitor a brooder from about 25' away. I'm looking for: continuous live stream in color that I can watch on my computer monitor (not phone) sound overnight recording local storage (not cloud) weatherproof color night vision no glow (no red light indicating it's operating) no...

When keeping chicks in a brooder until they're 8 or 9 weeks old, how many square feet per bird is needed at that age?

Sketchup and I are mortal enemies. I really really hate it. So. much. I have the free SketchUp Make version 17.2.2555 64-bit. I assume they designed it to drive a user insane so you'll scrap it and get the version you have to pay for. My question is: how do I make an object go straight down...

How do you introduce your dogs to chickens? Our dogs are big (60+ lb) shelter mutts. They're mellow, well-behaved, middle-aged. They despise cats and express mild interest in wild rabbits when we're on walks. They don't show any interest in chasing wild birds, e.g. roadrunners or turkeys. One...

I was inspired by Gallo Del Cielo's hoop coop and some videos by this couple. Please excuse my crappy Sketchup skills. The basic construction is 1/4" hardware cloth and heavy duty tarp strapped down over cattle panels. The design is for 8-10 laying hens with 12.8 sq. ft. of ground surface area...

I'm sorry it's so difficult to see what's going on. Sketchup and I are NOT friends. I did the best I could. We are building for 8-10 laying hens. We cannot free range so this will be all the space the hens get. Proportions in the drawing are off. The coop is 8' wide by 16' long. The front is...

I was reading in another thread that someone's hens ate bits of metal they found in the dirt and passed away. The house where I live is nearly 70 years old and the backyard has been used for who knows what over the decades. We find all kinds of things in the dirt including broken safety glass...

If I build my nest boxes 4.5 - 5.5 feet off the ground for easier cleaning and egg collection, does it make any difference to the hens? I'm trying to design a coop and run that's user-friendly for us tall people with older backs and joints.