Might just have to do Chicks!

[hardwood]

SpecialK9 has a thread here somewhere about his chicken tractors.

Scott

[Shanevrr]

We got 14 about a month ago, good ol family fun,  no eggs yet though.

[LoriMNnice]

I have easter eggers and I get green and pink eggs lots of hatcheries ship chicks and there are hatcheries that ship small quantities at good prices, I get mine mailed to me and have never had a problem. You can build chicken tractors out of PVC pipe and wire cheap . Chickens don't start laying eggs until they are 5-6 months old.

[danno]

These are the only chickens I will ever get
The ISA Brown is a hybrid type of Sex Link chicken, which is the result of crossing Rhode Island Reds and Rhode Island Whites. The ISA Brown is a hybrid, not a true breed. It is known for its high egg production of approximately 300 eggs per hen in the first year. The Institut de Sélection Animale, a French firm, the company which originally developed the breed in 1978 for egg production as a battery hen. The ISA Browns are a hybrid brown egg layers. They are easy to raise and prolific producers of large richly colored brown eggs of excellent shell quality. They are quiet and friendly and easily trained to lay in their nests. At birth you can tell the sex by the color... white chicks are males, tan chicks are females.  When you order pullets 1 or 2 out of 10 will be mistakenly sexed.  Not with these.  You get what you pay for

[ChrisS]

Here are a few pics of my tractor


The first 2 pics are with a osb sheet for the roof. The second 2 we added a door and changed the roof to tin. The last pic the piece of tin that's sitting there was going to cover the door but we never added it. We also have pieces of tin we use to cover the sides on cool nights and rainy conditions.

[Michael Bush]

>Might just have to do Chicks!

It's so hard not to respond to a title like that...

[carlfaba10t]

 I kept chickens for a lot of years until my dog [BEAR] was shot by a new neighbor that moved up from Cal. said he mistook him for a black bear,best dogone dog i ever had he kept all varmints away from my property or killed them.
After bear dog was gone the coons and coyotes moved in and killed most of my laying hens except for a hand full that i gave to a neighbor with a fool proof chicken coop.Sure miss those big brown eggs.