Recent content by WGHowell

This has been helpful. I lost all my coops and the run last year to a tornado. I've got their coop back together but it will be a while longer before I will get their run back up. I will have to use some of these ideas into my new run. I have a brooder now that the chicks are in that is outside...

Good news. I did wait until after dark and gently slipped the incubated chicks in with the broody. The chicks I had were of the same breed so you can't hardly tell the difference in them. When I went out to check on them this morning she was protecting them as if they were her own. I'll be...

My incubated chicks hatched off Monday . The eggs the hen was on hatched today (Thursday) . Will the hen except the other chicks If I wait and put them with her after dark?

I have built 2 coops in the last 5 years. The are easy to do. The first one was a 8x8, 8x16, and 8x10 closed in run. I went down to the Home Depot and purchased fence panels 6x8, 2x4s, 1x4s, tin for the roofing, sheet metal screws for the roofing and wood screws. The closed in run was a...

I have been buying chicks from TSC for 5 years and have ordered ducks from Hoover's hatchery. I've had real good luck with TSC chicks and also with my ducks from Hoover's. When it comes to sexing my TSC chicks have been very accurate. I've bought bantams from TSC also. I like getting them to see...