If you’re like me, you constantly battle with your chickens as you try to get them to sleep in the coop. Mine constantly get out of the pen and sleep in the bushes next to the coop. So every night I have to go out and put them to bed.
If you’re like me, you constantly battle with your chickens as you try to get them to sleep in the coop. Mine constantly get out of the pen and sleep in the bushes next to the coop. So every night I have to go out and put them to bed.
Chickens are extremely vulnerable to predation. In many cases they have been bred to be heavy to please our palates at the table and many of them are nearly flightless. They can literally become “sitting ducks!” The level of protection required for your flock of chickens depends on what the predators in your area...
Now that my chickens are about seven months old they have completely settled into their surrounds. By settled in I mean they no longer stay in the pen and rarely use the coop. Every night I have to go out and take them out of the bushes and trees and put them back in...
One of the many things you learn when you raise chickens is that fences are more to keep other animals out of the chicken coop than to keep the chickens in. You have to keep in mind that chickens are birds and birds fly. I have Araucana chickens. I don’t have a rooster so...
After a month being in the house inside the brooder box the little chickens were final ready to go out in their new home.
As I’m raising my chicks in the brooder box I’m asked the question “How do you know when they are ready to go outside”? The answer I’ve always heard is that when their feathers are in and they are big enough to not fit through the fence they are ready to go. Obviously if...
Organizers of the Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival (ACEF) announced the eighth annual event will become a three day event in 2012. North Alabama’s wildly popular spring festival returns to Moulton, April 13-15, 2012 and with the additional day, new activities and more live music are on the agenda.
When I got my six baby Araucanas I initially used a small box. Something to keep in mind though is that chickens grow very quickly (a week or two) and I soon had to get a bigger box. Some things I learned about Baby Chickens. They smell. – When they’re are very young it’s...
I’ve wanted to get chickens for a while now and my wonderful wife got me six baby Araucana chicks for my birthday. So now I had to figure out a way to house them once they were grown, and not go broke in the process.
