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Inside my coop the rafters are accessible to my chickens and they will roost up there over night; see Picture of Coop. I got my chickens about two years ago and they have been doing this ever since then. It is difficult for the chickens to get down for the rafters in the morning. It is even...

My chickens pictured are about 1.5 years old. They have been having feather issues for about 4 months. The Rhode Island Red has it the worst. It looks like her feathers have been pulled out. I had two roosters which I removed because I though that could be this issue. The roosters have been gone...

Hi, Just one section of my chicken run smells really bad. I do not know what ammonia smells like, but I don't think it is that? The smell is limited to one area where we have feeders for the chickens. It rained most of January here in central California and that area was extremely muddy. The...

Hi, I see that people use pine shavings for their chicken runs and I want to do this too to help with smell, but my chicken run is completely open and I live in an area where it rains during the fall, winter, and spring. What do I do with the chips for rain? Also, do I need to wrack and turn...

Hi, I bought a property with a chicken coop on it. It is 89 inches by 89 inches (56 square feet), but it is divided in two sections of 44 inches x 89 inches (27 square feet). One section has roosting bars and the other had two nesting box. I removed the prior nesting boxes because I eventually...