Recent content by Jane11

I recently purchased and set up a solar electric chicken fence around our garden space for the chickens to “till, poop, and scratch” so as to prep and fertilize for spring planting. My question is this: how long do I need to let it rest between their removal from the space and planting? I put...

We just butchered our 15 Naked-necks at 12 weeks old (as this is the age they stated in an article to butcher) and they seemed really small to me. I know grocery store birds are bigger due to breed and other things but they were really small. When I order a new batch for our next rotation of...

Yes! This is my plan over the fall and winter. To fence in my actual growing space and let them do their thang prepping it for the next year’s garden.

I feel like they wouldn’t mess with the pits. They are hard and wouldn’t be much interest to a chicken. Even though they are not the smartest animal on the planet, God did endow them with instincts so I’d say let them forage in the space and maybe just keep an easy eye on them to make sure they...

So perhaps it would be best to layer their coop bedding on top of the wood chips in tue fall instead of having them directly involved. Thanks for the reply!

I have 30 6-week old chickens. Half will be butchered and I’ll be left with 15 egg layers. I’m currently building the fencing for their run but I’m also going to set up temporary seasonal fencing around my garden so they can forage and fertilize my area all fall and winter. My question is this…...

Thank you for your story. I am new to chicken-keeping, we have 30 6-week old birds now. I have fed them mealworms maybe 3-4x since they have gone into the coop. Mostly I want to use it to train them to come back to me if they get out of their run space. We live in town and our neighbors would be...

I have the ability to make a little penned in area in my yard to let our baby chicks go outside a bit. They are about 2 weeks old and I was wondering if this is too young to allow to do that? It has been very warm out here in Ohio. I would be outside with them the whole time since we have a cat...

I stapled it initially then used roofing screws with washers to secure it further all the way down.

I did it! I had a bunch of hwc that I was repurposing for this project. I’ll put trim up to cover bottom edge… I wonder though… can I simply do this to the opposite wall which is also open between rafters or is it too low (6’- 2’ lower than the front) and will cause a draft on chickens? I’d...

Thanks so much for the pic. So helpful.

Thanks so much!

So I want to be sure I’m understanding correctly…cover the rafters in hardware cloth and leave open? The east side I’ll do the opening with hardware cloth for sure! Also could I simply cover (with hardware cloth) the south and north open space at top of roof/rafters/eaves and NOT cut an opening...

My style of shed isnt addressed. I built a single pitch roof.

I haven’t yet screwed in 2x6’s in between each rafter on front and back. So basically it’s completely open at top 6” high. Could I simply take my hardware cloth and staple that in all the way down the length at roofline and then put in my floor vent on east wall at top? That would make it so easy!