Chicken roosts

We have regular size and bantam size chickens, and also guineas.  They each seem to roost differently and I don’t know if that’s  typical or not.
I had read my chicken books before I got them and before we built the coops. Of course roosts are very easy to add to coops or move or take down [...]

Healthy Chickens

Since I’ve had my chickens a little over a year ago, June 2008, I have not had any health issues.  They all eat, drink and poop as they should. 
I am using the deep litter method for the coops which is great.  There has been no smell and everything decomposes.  Every so often, maybe every 3 months or [...]

Chickens and coops in summer

This is our second summer with the chickens.  Last year they arrived a few days old in June so they were in our garage housed securely in a stock tank until they were old enough to be in the coops and in the pastures late in the summer. 
So, this year I am observing, as the [...]

Those crazy chickens

 
 I loooooove my chickens. I’m not personally attached to any, but I just love hearing them clucking, the silkie bantam rooster crowing, the guineas squawking when they see something unfamiliar, and drinking out of the alpaca’s water buckets. (The chickens have their own water fonts, but for some reason they like to hop up on [...]

Hungry Hungry Chickens

I love to look out and see the chickens swarming over the pastures.  I know they are getting rid of nuisance bugs for me.  I am thinking of bringing a couple over into the house yard and keep them  secured in an empty dog house at night and let them out during the day, but I [...]