Comments on: Lower Maintenance Chickens

By: Jaci

Jaci — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:52:47 +0000

Also on the watered front my husband rigged up a 5 gallon bucket to hosing and the put chicken nipples in some PVC Pip to make a watered….he catches rain water in the bucket from the roof of the coop…from what ive read about maggots I decided not to try them but I order meal worms from uncle Jim’s (5.95/500 using a coupon) and we will be raising mealworms for our gals!

By: Kendra at New Life On A Homestead

Kendra at New Life On A Homestead — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:43:51 +0000

I have heard of a maggot bucket, but I didn’t know what you would call it or how it worked exactly. THANKS for this!! I would like to try something like this for the hens

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:47:02 +0000

I know you posted this a year or so ago, but have you heard of maggot buckets? You poke holes around the bottom of a bucket, put meat in there, the flys lay their eggs on the meat and then the maggots crawl out of the holes and get eaten by the chickens. Just go a google search and you’ll find out loads about them. I’ve not tried it yet, but it sounds like a good supplimental feeding source for your chicks.

By: Jaci

Jaci — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:14:01 +0000

Ive heard of people having their compost close to or in the chickens run so they turn it for u and get to eat the bugs…we plan on building a mobile coop for free ranging and poop control factors…ive seen where people section off their yard with the coop kinda in the center and rotated the chicken btwn 4 zones …hth

By: Daphne Macie

Daphne Macie — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:55:15 +0000

Our 6 chickens lived in a chicken tractor for one whole summer until we were able to fix up a chicken coop and run for them. You are welcome to visit my blog see how accommodating our chicken tractor was. It worked out quite nice during the warmer months but the winter in northern N.Y. state are cold and bitter so we worked hard at getting them better living quarters that would be more accommodating. We are storing the chicken run in case we decide to get any more chicks but would put 1/2 inch hardware cloth over the existing chicken wire to predator proof it better. Check out my page Chickens x 6 and my link Chicken Family on my blog.

By: Kendra at New Life On A Homestead

Kendra at New Life On A Homestead — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:34:21 +0000

Yeah, a chicken tractor would work for a few hens, but not a very large flock