Recent content by AMURPHY227

I am in the process of building a bachelor pad for my teenage boys. If you want to skip down to the question, its labeled "QUESTION:" I am not new to chickens, but I am new to a bachelor pad system lol...... Backstory: My husband got me 9 Black Copper Marans from a breeder for Christmas...

Thank you! And it’s just at a low point. We live on 7 acres and there’s uneven spots all over the property. When we built this we didn’t realize how low it was due to grass being there at the time. We are about to add “barn wings” on to each side to expand it, so I’m hoping that will help too.

We've been having drainage issues in my chicken run. We did temporary fixes using pellet bedding and hay (See pic 1). We built it up this weekend with organic topsoil (just dirt, sand and gravel) (pic2) What is the best thing to put over that? Should I add gravel, then sand? I live in...

This thread makes me happy. I have some BCM babies and one of them has white in it so I was questioning the purity.

That mix should produce some very pretty eggs when the hens start laying!! I plan to breed my BCM roo with my OE and EE, and see the pretty egg colors I can get from those hens!

I have BCM's and OE's and EE's.........All of your black ones are the marans. The grey are your olive eggers, and the white one looks like my easter eggers but I suppose could be an OE.