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After being on this site for years we finally have chickens. We got six hens and one pullet from family members. We are getting around four eggs a day. I think we are off to a good start and the chickens seem to be happy.
After being on this site for years we finally have chickens. We got six hens and one pullet from family members. We are getting around four eggs a day. I think we are off to a good start and the chickens seem to be happy.
We all want happy, healthy chickens. After all, they’re more than just egg producers. They’re little feathered personalities that make us laugh, keep the bugs down, and give us a reason to wander into the yard a few times a day. But here’s the thing: sometimes it’s hard to know just how healthy...
In my collective 12 months as a chicken keeper, I've been witness to several behavioral clashes between flock members. Some of it is expected ("Don't touch my tasty treat or I'll peck you!"), and some of it seems a bit excessive ("Don't breathe the same air as me or I'll peck you!"). It can be...
Get out your torches and pitchforks, friends! It's time to talk about everyone's "favorite" prefab: The Omlet Eglu.
Every spring, I'll see several newcomers on BYC asking about Eglus. "Should I get one? How many chickens does it hold? Does it get hot in the summer?" And these are great...
If you’ve been raising chickens for a while, you know they’ll eat just about anything that doesn’t eat them first. Bugs, grass, kitchen scraps, even that sandwich crust you dropped by accident—gone in seconds. But what about organ meat? Can chickens eat things like liver, heart, or gizzards? The...
Are you sick of having skittish chickens that don’t come up to you? Or perhaps you're a beginner and want to know how to socialize with your first flock! This could solely be the chicken’s personality, despite your best efforts to socialize with it, or perhaps it’s the “user’s error.”
In this...
Hola everyone! It’s Duckfarner1 and Chickensreally!!!
We popped on to announce that we became fast friends on here 7 years ago! Since then we’ve talked daily.. sometimes constantly 🤣
Well we FINALLY got to meet!
Chickensreally lives in Edmonton… I live in Pittsburgh! I flew to see her...
Fall is such a cozy time of year. The leaves turn those beautiful shades of red and gold, the air smells like woodsmoke, and pumpkin spice is suddenly in everything from coffee to candles. But for chicken keepers, fall also comes with a less charming seasonal trend… predators on the prowl.
You...
"It has gutters!" is often the first comment I hear. Indeed; and we'll get to the reason for that eventually. But let's start at the beginning. As my esteemed colleague and sometime-bartender Paul tells me: you can change a plan, but only if you have one.
Not to scale. 12' long, 6' wide, 8'...
I started this coop by laying down two 8' 2" x 4"s then putting five 4.5’ ones down in between them. The boards were roughly two feet apart and fastened using two screws in each end.
Next, I added some 2” x 2" s in-between those short 4.5' boards. I alternated them 18" and 16" from the...
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