Vinyl flooring covered with pine shavings on top of plywood has worked great for us and our 4 hens haven't messed with it at all (about 1 year so far). Maybe we've been more fortunate than others.
We're putting together a new coop much like the one in the pictures at:
http://www.facebook.com/donald.weeks.102/photos#!/media/set/?set=a.369373556429338.93340.100000700897225&type=3
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Well, they can go up to 72 hours without food or water after hatching, so it would almost certainly be fine in there. I've done that before and it's always worked out okay. But...
This is the 20th day of incubation for a 17-egg hatch (33 were set, but 16 ended up not being fertilized). On day 18, we candled the eggs that still looked clear on day 14, removed them (they were all still clear), and "locked...
The friend we got our eggs from for our hatch has a number of different breeds, so it definitely doesn't have to be a "leghorn". That's just what she told us it was.What is meant by "Cochin Cross"? Does it...
We have a leghorn that was born first in a batch of three and has always been the "alpha" of the group. Both our boys have thought they heard "him" crowing but are not certain because it wasn't exactly like a...
Very impressed with how much you accomplished in such a short time. Your chickens look very happy about their new home, so I can only imagine how much happier your wife is.I'm curious about the internal dimensions of your...
Hello from right across the lake in Kirkland!You've got a lot of cool ideas put into a single plan. I was thinking of a building something along those lines, but hadn't thought of the corner lofts like you have.We don't get a lot...
