I bought some Easter Eggers from Tractor Supply about a year ago. We decided to incubate and hatch our own. The mama hens are all just brown. The daddy rooster is kind of white with teal tail feathers.
However, after hatching many chicks over the past year with all of them being brown, we...
We wanted to see what would happen if we left eggs in the coop. The first set of eggs we left in there we had drawn black circles with indelible ink to differentiate from newly laid eggs. The tall disappeared but one. I kind of thought maybe we accidentally picked them up with fresh eggs.
When...
They are about a month old. A lady in the neighborhood gave us a few eggs to incubate. I showed her the chicks when they were a few days old. She said the light colored one was an Americuana (sp?) But she didn't know what the dark colored one was.
I have covered the pallets with plywood and placed hardware cloth over what would have been windows that were only covered with plastic netting. I'll be posting updated pictures soon.
Okay, got it. We've got a trip to Home Depot planned for tomorrow morning. Will get hardware cloth to attach to the outside of the coop at the top. And yes, good idea to spray the pallet wood with something that preserves it. I guess I will only apply a preservative to the outside.
We are building a coop out of pallets and other materials. The reason for pallets is because they are already on our property and therefore pretty cheap. The pictures show our progress so far. I thought I would share so that you guys can tell me what we're doing wrong.
So far on this forum...
Oh gosh. I'm so glad I posted. And thank you for making this point because I have no idea. I will have to look into this. The idea is to used pallets for the bottom half of the walls, and then chicken wire over the pallets and then higher up to about six feet. I was thinking that predators...
I am 64 years old and am finally a proud owner of 10 baby chicks! Three years ago, my husband and I bought an acre in Southwest Arizona. About 2 or 3 weeks ago we bought 10 "Easter Eggers" because we learned that they are more heat tolerant, and it does get hot here! We don't know if they are...