Recent content by KLC321

Thanks for checking in! I've been wanting to take a minute and tell the story of "Little Guy." He came to us as an extra chick in our order. He had a gullet outside his body and it had exploded. He was a special chick to me and I asked on this site for help and the community responded! Here...

Thank you so much for the information! I'll worm my chickens tomorrow when the wormer arrives. That should be fun 😱

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I found this very odd chicken poop in the barn. I've never seen anything like it. I thought it might be a worm but it didn't move when I touched it with a stick. It was malleable but didn't seem alive or once living. Does anyone have any ideas? Do I have a problem with my flock? I have 9...

Update- I blocked the nesting boxes and one of the 4 roosted with the old hens. Success ! Hopefully the rest will follow her example. Thanks for the help.

They were using the roosts in their other coop. The roosts were bamboo poles and fit their small feet. The new roosts are 2x4s. I can try and put up some bamboo poles for them to transition to the bigger roosts. I don't see a lot of older hens picking on the younger ones, but I don't see...

Lengthwise roost is 6 ' long, widthwise roost is 3'9" long. Yes roost is higher than the nesting boxes

Thanks for your help. They have been in the larger coop for about a month, maybe a bit longer. I can try to block off the nesting boxes and see about another roost.

I have 6 elderly chickens and recently added 3 new hens and a roo. They are almost 5 months old. The new hens and roo were in a smaller, adjoining coop and run for a month before moving in. My problem is that the new birds won't roost with the other hens and roost in the laying boxes. The...

It works really well to have a separate run/coop for young birds and also sick birds or hens being picked on. I seem to use my smaller coop/run a lot.

We made this video from taking 1 photo every minute while building our coop. We fast forwarded and put it to music. It took about 2 weekends and the video is 4 minutes. The photo is of our 2 coops. They share a fence so new & young chickens can get use to each other before they are housed...

Thank you for your help! I'm glad I will be able to keep one and I read that the Brahmas are good layers through the winter. She will be a nice addition to my laying flock :)

I purchased 15 large breed male day old chicks for meat. I'm wondering if this one is a hen or rooster? I think it is a Brahmas. The others have a larger and redder comb. If it is a hen I am considering keeping her for eggs.

After reading about impacted crop I massaged the lump. It went down and seemed to kind of explode overnight. I put antibiotic cream on it and separated him from the other chicks. I noticed they were pecking his wound through the fencing so we added fencing. I then noticed him pecking his own...

I saw him drink yesterday but haven't actually seen him eat. His food seems to be going down in his section of the brooder so I assume he is eating. Is there anything I can do if the crop is impacted?