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    What’s taking my ducks?!

    Could be a fox. The take the carcass. Raccoons, opossums, and weasels do not. A large bird of prey might take one.
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    misting system

    We used this on our tent. Use the hose, let the warm water drain out first. Spray the roof of the henhouse with the cold water. Not a lot of water, little more than a dribble. The roof will cool down then the air inside the coop will drop in temp. Turn off water. You can do this any where...
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    Best YouTube Channel

    I would trust chickenlandia.
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    Best Chicken Breed

    Which family? Location. Etc. You would probably want chickens that are not flighty.
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    Ideas for Keeping Pure Breeding Lines While Still Free Ranging + Question About Bird Adaptability

    Just my two cents, breed as suggested above. Pick the time of year you want chicks hatching and work from there. I bought a rooster and a hen who were a year old and raised in total confinement. They did fine free ranging, following my young hen around and learning to forage.
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    "Guard Goose"

    You can have only one goose. It is advised that you get it as a gosling so that it sees the chickens as family. Some will sound the alarm only but only that. Others will attack. Research breeds to find what suits you.
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    help! outside coop built… please see pic &read description!

    Call a carpenter.
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    Cold climate coops

    Are you in the tundra? Please add your location.
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    What do you use for your walkways? (it's a soggy mess over here!)

    Until you put in the French drain you could lie a few 2 x 4 boards down. And a 2x 4 roost.
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    Are these chicken ticks? They are in my chicken coop!

    The award winning breeder I bought my Brahms from showed me what she feeds them. It included garlic. On another plus said you would be buying a product that is sold in Grocery stores, you can cook with it.
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    Are these chicken ticks? They are in my chicken coop!

    garlic keeps them away. Sprinkle garlic powder in the coop. After 3 days sprinkle some around the coop. I put it in the chicken food. food.
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    Controlling/preventing buttercup sprouts in foraging areas?

    They may be eating it because it is high in flavenoids.
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    Electrified Fence and Silkies and Call Ducks

    My chicks would just walk under the bottom wire. The adults hopped between the two lower wires. On poultry netting the bottom wire is not charged and chicks walk over it.
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    Massive coop upgrade!

    The roosting bars should all be at the same height. I'm not sorry they will like those bars. If not then replace them with 2 x 4
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    Wild birds or chickens? Does it matter?

    I think it is a selling point. More people feed wild birds than feed backyard chickens.
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    New Hoop Coop/Run

    Those roosting branches are too close to the wall. For chicks you just put the branches on the ground and they will eventually sit on them. You have more nesting boxes than you will need. They will decide which ones they like best.
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    solo baby

    He needs a chick friend. Now is the time of year to go to a feed store and pick up a few friends.
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    Weed killer

    The weeds you kill are probably good for the chickens.
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    Other ways to keep chickens cool?

    You can put a tarp up, like a roof and spray cold water over the tarp. This cools the space under the tarp, even the ground.
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    Coop up or free range

    You don't need an 8 foot barrier. Besides, my orpington hens and australorp roosters would fly up to the 8 foot beam in my greenhouse. Better would be to run a wire about 6 inches from the top of the fence and about 8 inches to the inside. When they try to fly up to the top of the fence they hit...
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