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Hi everyone, my old waterer broke, the plastic bucket had cracked being outdoors and 2 years of use. We had ideas on insulating the bucket for summertime when it gets too hot. I recently bought an igloo cooler and i’m thinking of using that to water the chickens. i do not have a stable...

this was a well written post! i’m glad you’re sharing awareness that chickens can be productive way beyond 2 years of age! i have my own little flock and i plan on hentirement as well!!

@3KillerBs yeah i don’t have pine straw on my property, i could go look around. will also get wood chips. for the first link you posted about someone renovating their prefab, i don’t understand why they used wood and covered up the sides of the coop? isn’t the free flowing air good? I...

detailed steps with pictures! really helps other keepers think about improvements

by mesh you mean the chicken wire or the aerial netting?? Yes wood chips seem like a great idea. should i go ahead and buy 30 sacks of chips to lay on the ground?? should i couple that with shavings? Does that also mean i should remove all that and put new chips and shavings periodically...

new chicken keeper, i have 4 girls who are about to start laying. I am also in Charleston South Carolina so the weather is pretty warm most of the year with winters being in the single digits but still about 60F in the day. Most of the year it is 70-85F. I have a run that is about 400 sqft and...

thank you, are all red sex link ones excellent layers basically?? I’m starting to suspect mine are mixed breed black chickies

So i got these chicks two months ago and they are now 4 months old ish. on another thread they suggested my chicken might be a copper maran? But i saw this thread and they look so similar to my chickens now! So i’m wondering if my two chickens are just mixed breeds...

Hey Nuthatched! yeah in the recent weeks they have sorta started growing their tails at different rates. I definitely noticed that black chick has curved tail feathers, i’m not looking to have roosters but if it happens, so be it i guess! he/she could help take care of the small flock. I just...

Thanks Perris, i suspected the australorps possibly weren’t pure bred, which is no issue. the one with red around the neck does have 2 feathers in the feet, but the other one has lots more. Yes i definitely tried regular old dirt, i went to the back of my property and shoveled up some plain old...

Hi, I’m a new chicken keeper, just got four young pullets in mid june 2021, they are currently 4 months old as of mid Aug 2021. They are supposed to be 2 golden comets and 2 australorps. The two australorps are mostly black with some white feathers and one of them has especially fluffy feet, the...