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I believe that's 4 sq ft per bird of floor space within the coop. On the roost bars my ladies all cluster together and there is a lot of empty roost bar space.

I have a coop that size and I have 12 chickens in there, they only roost and lay eggs in the coop so they are fine. I haven't had any aggression problems at all. I opened the coop one night to check on them and they were clustered together with no space between them in two groups, one group on...

My chickens ate my waterline insulation, and one died from that, so I buried the waterline. Another one ate the flowers off of my hydrangea, so I dug up all of the hydrangeas and azaleas and burned them. Another ate the leaves off of my Peace Lily that I had set outside on my front porch to get...

I do when the wind is blowing, because it stirs the dust up. My coop floor is about 3ft off of the ground, so I stand in the coop and I just sweep the litter into a tote on the ground. I'm well above the dust as the litter falls. If the wind is blowing I wear a dust mask and safety goggles...

My run has about the same security as yours (dogs and stakes), but my coop is like Fort Knox - provided the door gets closed! I found where a raccoon had pulled up a stake on the run and got into it during the night, but couldn't get the coop door open. I was getting lax on closing the coop...

I would quarantine her for about two weeks, then move her into a pen close to them so they all get used to each other before putting her in with your flock (so they all don't decide she is an intruder and constantly peck at her). I have a Pearl Guinea that showed up at my house and helped...

Here in Arkansas, too.

I have feed buckets and waterer's set up and a fully enclosed chicken run that gives them access to the coop and nesting boxes (the nesting boxes drop the eggs out of the back to a collection trough) so I have left them for up to 10 days and they never ran out of food or water and never were in...

Diced tomato - they will follow you to the ends of the earth for a bite of tomato.

I wait until it is dark and then I have a big fishing net that I scoop my chickens out of the tree with. Once I get them safely down I trim their wing feathers. My Guineas have to have their wings trimmed every couple of weeks, because they just will not stay out of the trees if I don't. My...

I have clear poly on parts of my run, and metal on other parts, just so I can have a place to block light and rain, and a place to just block rain. I also have an uncovered section, which is where my chickens' garden is, so there is both rain and light. So I would go with multiple cover types.

Except if an animal is killing domestic animals in AR you are legally allowed to "dispatch" it. "Domestic" includes chickens, kittens, calves, etc.,) I had a couple of neighbors whose hunting dogs were running loose and killing chickens. I called the phone numbers on the dogs' collars ('cause...

I put two kiddie pools in my run and filled them with sand (holes in the bottom for drainage) and I add ice to them at about noon every day. When I go outside to collect eggs they are all standing in them. I also have 20 gel ice packs in my freezer I put half of them in the coop, swapping them...

My neighbors put in an automatic door and the door closed late and opened early, and they lost their chickens to raccoons. I go out every evening and check on the ladies as they are going to bed and I close them up. I then go out in the morning and let them out, so I can count them and make sure...

I was not going to buy any more, then I went in the feed store and they had white guineas and lavender guineas, so I bought a male and female of each color. Darnit!

My black stars (egg layers) are Nickie, Crowley, Beyblade, Slow Dancer, Jackie, and Chica. My meat chickens (cornish cross) are all "Big Bertha" and I refer to them as "The Bertha's". My Rhode Island Red rooster is Rhett, since he was given to me by my southern neighbor. My American Bresse...

The vase would get hot, and they might burn themselves. I have a camping cookstove with which I can heat water and put hot water (not boiling) in plastic bottles in the brooder. However, you would need to refresh the water in the bottles regularly since, depending on how cold it is and the size...

I had this issue and cleaned the entire interior of the coop with PineSol and the flies left, the chickens weren't crazy about it either but they layed eggs and slept in there so it couldn't have been too bad. Now I spray the inside walls of my coop with a mixture of water and peppermint oil...