Bought a house - previous owner moved to a town home so we kept the chickens. There is a decent amount of space on the property, and half of it is a forested hillside.
Any suggestions for a newbie? A new coop is definitely first thing on my list. And a fence around the property.
One of the chickens is an outcast and I feel bad for her, doesn’t leave the coop when the others go out in the yard and doesn’t eat treats from the ground just food from the feeder. The other chickens get along well it seems.
I’ve never given my chickens oysters, hadn’t even heard of it to this. Their feed has everything they need, and mine roam and eat what they want. If I use eggs when cooking I crack the egg into whatever vessel I’m using, then shoot the shell in the sink. Then I rise them, crush them with my hand into what would be a compost bin… And instead give it to the chickens. My chickens like everything, I can break a branch off and they’ll eat all the leaves off it.
If you want busy projects, you can put down layer cover on parts of the yard like clover seeds down before it rains. And they’ll enjoy eating it, and it can look nice