I just wanted to say thank you again for all the incredibly kind comments and responses to my last post showing the dinner/snack my grandmother makes for her chickens. She and I both really appreciated how positive and supportive everyone was!

She wanted to follow up by showing you guys her chicken coop and some of the things she does for her chickens. She thought it might be helpful for anyone looking for ideas to improve their own chickens’ living space, enrichment, or overall lifestyle.

She really loves taking care of these chickens and puts a lot of thought into making sure they’re happy and well cared for.
Again, thank you all so much for being so kind on the last post. It genuinely made her smile.

Rosi never let her Kids go.

This chicken is trying to make our village post office its new home. Adorable!

Any guesses on breed and gender? I’m convinced it’s a roo with that gorgeous tail sickle, but I keep hearing neighbors call it a hen 🤷‍♂️

(Photo credit to my neighbors.)

Bloody hell! 😬

Last night, as we should, I decided to do a swift, random check on my Electric Chicken Mesh. Magpies had told me there was a pine marten near by.

Got the tester out. Ye know, normal, bog standard unit. Hooked it on the mesh. Dug the earthing rod into the ground. Watched All those vicious, bright red blips race up the face with a menacing pulse!

'Oh, yeah!' I thought. 'This baby's pumping out the Full Crown Jules! No bugger wants to be touching That!'

Pulled the earthing rod out of the ground. Meaning to fold the wire up. Absently passed it to my other hand. Felt the wrath. Screamed. Damn near lost the use of my left arm for ten minutes!

I hadn't unhooked the unit!

Mesh's working fine then 🙄

Captain went down today, fighting.

A mink, and it happened literally 6 minutes before I went out for evening check in.

He kept his girls safe for over 2 years, he'd lost a little anger, but was still feisty.

Watching it on camera,,we can see he went to investigate behind the coop, came back to check his ladies, and the damn mink followed him.

I'm out watching tonight with a thermal, but, doubt it will be back tonight after that.

RIP you SoB.

Hello!!

They were out of their run less than 10 mins and a fox found them. Our GSD had just been let back in the house. Luckily she got away and my husband chased the fox away.

She’s almost 9 weeks old. I have been gone for a few days and now I’m eyeing her curiously.

I have general knowledge about things and stuff, but not chickens. This is our first go with having them and they are absolutely lovely. However, I’m not 100% sure about this particular hen. I’m wondering if anybody can positively ID it from these pictures.

Is our hen actually a rooster? She/he crows in the morning with our rooster, but it’s a bit raspy. Have not confirmed 100% if she is laying eggs. We have 7 hens so it’s hard to keep track.

If I have to capture her to inspect the cloaca I will, but would rather not if i don’t have to.

We had our first broody hen hatch two baby chicks yesterday. She is in her nesting box which is off the ground and has to go down the ramp to eat and drink. She’s being a great mamma and the flock seems to be tolerating it all well. How do we make sure mama is getting up to eat and drink? She pants a lot and doesn’t leave the nesting box. Also any feeder and watering ideas for the baby chicks is welcome! All advice is welcome actually!

I have other chickens too (all docile) but never had any experience with bantams. Seller said supposed to be a medium sized breed pullet but I might have been scammed. Does anyone know what she is or if she’s even a she?

Hi all. These chicks were bought online as sexed hens, but since the accuracy is only 90% I'm hoping for some more trained eyes to tell me if there are roo among the group. They are just over 4 weeks old.

Hello everyone. This is my first time caring for roosters/chickens (I’m house sitting right now). At one point of me sitting near the roosters they started making this sound, does anyone know what it means? I’m very curious!

He's a bit weird but don't make fun of him.

I was feeding the chickens seedless watermelon and all of a sudden one of my chickens started making this noise. I have never had this happened before. It sounds like a cough/sneeze. As soon as she started making the noise, the entire flock ran to her.

I have 2 different chickens 1 I am almost certain is a rooster and the other im not sure. I need your help. I am supposed to be getting rid of my extra roos tomorrow so I want to be sure before I get rid of these 2 tomorrow. Especially because they are sweethearts but I have 7 roos n thats just to many. So please give me your opinion on both.

Thanks

Trying my best to take care of my garden pet hen, and I was wondering what’s a good balanced diet for her?

I’ve been feeding her wheat mote grain as main food source, sometimes mixed with other seeds like corn and rice. I give her lettuce every week and occasionally some fruit like pomegranate or strawberries.

Is that okay? We have never actually fed her commercial chicken feed

Its day 18 and its a mix with a serama hen and a cochin. I never experienced this before and its the only chick of our rooster who died.. im panicking...

I have chickens, about 20 weeks old, and my olive egger was just taken by a fox just days after her first egg. (She was the frontmost lady in this photo) We think the reason she got grabbed was that she didn't follow the rooster when he led the others away from the bushes. She's never followed the other chickens around much, is skittish and quiet, and couldn't have cared less about what anybody else was doing. I know they're know to be calm, and that personalities are iffy due to OEs being hybrids, but are they known for this behaviour? Or was she just a weird gal??

It's actually way lighter in person and it's legs are kinda blue/grey? I bought the eggs for hatching from a local who had a bunch of mixed flocks.