Recent content by louithom

Hello Our mixed flock of 5 happy and healthy birds (1 cockerel, 2 barnvelders and 2 golden lines) has just been reduced to 4 by a sudden and unexplained death of one of the barnvelders. I am concerned that an undetected problem might move onto the other birds. Or maybe it was just something...

We have a basic A-Framed coop in which we have kept 2 chickens with an area in the corner for egg laying. We would like to increase our stock of birds and believe the coop itself will comfortably hold 5 hens. However, in doing so we don't have any room for a nesting box area within the coop. I...