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 [...]

My peeps

I will repeat again, I loooove my chickens.  Going from zero to 30 a year ago last June was probably craziness on my part, but they are so fun.  I love having different varieties because they are all such different styles and colorings, as well as personalities. 
I got 10 guineas, 10 Silkie Partridge bantams (luckily 9 [...]

Chickens and eggs

We are ready for more HOT weather this week.  The chickens usually slow down laying during extreme heat; when it cools down they fire up again.  My Buff Wyandotte hens and the two chicks have been running around.  The little chicks are now venturing out more on their own away from the hens.  The chicks [...]

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 [...]