Sorry, this one will be gross. One morning I went out to check the chickens, I was in a rush to head out for the day, but I noticed Alma had some dirty tail feathers. I made a mental note to clean her off when I got home that afternoon. When I got home, I… Continue reading My Chicken Got Fly Strike
Our new coop may look huge, but it's not all chicken space! One of the things we wanted to include in our new coop was a storage area. We wanted a place we could keep their food, bedding, treats, etc... The storage area is about 28"x48". It was pretty easy to add a dividing wall.… Continue reading Building the Coop (pt 3)
Let's see, where did part one leave off? The walls! As I said in part one, we went a little overboard on the structure of these walls. But hey, I wanted to make sure no predators could get in unless they had an axe. In our coop design we had about a quarter of the… Continue reading Building the Coop (pt 2)
More chickens meant needing a bigger coop... and a second one. Our first coop would only house up to 5 chickens and now, since we got the chicks, we have 7. We needed a coop that would house all 7 chickens while keeping our first coop as a transition coop for new chicks and to… Continue reading Building the Coop (pt 1)
Baby chicks should be inside with a heat source for the first 5-6 weeks, or until they are fully feathered. At 5 weeks I turned off my chicks heat source to let them get used to regulating their own temperatures. They were mostly fully feathered at this point and it wasn't too cold in the… Continue reading Moving baby Chicks Outside
We bought our first house in November 2019 and my most favorite part about it are the chickens. Yes, our house came with chickens! We were going to get chickens anyway, it was just a bonus that this house came with them! There were 4 chickens, we named them Alma, Mary-Lou, Sookie, and Doris. Alma… Continue reading Meet the Ladies
two weeks ago we lost one of our chickens, Mary-Lou. She had been sick for a few months and we were doing everything we could for her. I’ve learned it’s hard to care for a sick chicken because it’s hard to find a vet that will treat a hen. Sadly we couldn’t nurse her back… Continue reading New Chicks!
