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.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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    22 days ago

    I prefer to add eggshells to my compost so my plants get calcium since eggshells are easy to pulverize with a atick or muddle and supplement calcium for the chickens with calcium carbonate or baked oyster/clamshells. The clamshells are a lot harder to break, you have to bake them well to get them as brittle as oystershells but it’s cheaper.