Posts by chicks4erin

We used the plans from The Garden Coop for our run and purchased the Omlet Eglu Cube for the coop.  I really can’t say enough about The Garden Coop plans and the structure itself.  It looks awesome, it really does.  It...

LOVE IT!!!! Nice job.   We will be staining ours this week before we put on the roof and wrap it in the hardware cloth (so dreading that job).  Love the pix of the chick sitting on the stairs, adorable.  BTW, love...

Thank you all for the suggestions.  Helpful as always!

We  purchased The Garden Coop plans and brother-in-law and hubby have been hard at work putting to together a modified version.  We ended up going with the Eglu Cube for our hen house which we'll attach on the side, but...

Hi Caity, we have 4 silkie's that are 4 weeks old, but I'm pretty certain 2 of those are roosters.  The roosters will be going back to the feed store for a new home since we can't keep roosters where we live.  It stinks...

Caity, this looks GREAT!!!  We are in the process of building The Garden Coop too.  We are using the plans just to build our run.  I went back and forth with leaving it at 9'6" or making it 12', after reading your post...

  Quote: Originally Posted by TheJuan-n-Only  So I started putting some of the hardwire cloth up today. I had planed to used screws with washeres on them to put it up, however, I remembered that the nailgun I...

We picked up our Buff Orp, EE and Barred Rock yesterday from our local feed store,  I noticed this evening the Buff Orp constantly had it's eyes closed.  The EE and Barred Rock are snuggling and eating/drinking together, but...

  We used this for the first week for 4 Silkie's, then move them into larger dog crate.  Our dog watching a little chicken tv!     Dog grate:

I've seen a few threads where people add bantams to older chicks, but I have 4 Silkie's who will be 3 weeks old next Tuesday, we will be getting a BO, EE and barred rock next Wednesday.  My plan is to keep the 3 new...