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Well the coop is home! Had a little tire trouble on the way home but thankfully it was a short trip and didn’t go totally flat until I got in front of my house. But it did make it impossible for me to get it backed into the driveway with the truck so I had to get the tractor and finish the job...

Your welcome and thank you very much. I’m almost done with it. Should be ready to move chicks in by mid week. I’ll have a new round of pictures soon!

Well I’d like to say I could answer all your questions but I’m still in the beginning phases of our pasture layer expansion. We have about 8 acres of fields behind our house plus another 150 acres owned by my neighbor that will let us use his pastures in rotation with his cows. We currently...

Well it’s almost there! Just need to finish up some battens on the end walls and build the deck for the water tank and it will be ready for paint. I’ve got the roost bars mapped out in my head and will get to work on those after we get the inside painted up. Order the pullet shut auto door the...

Some more progress.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/hwcD1VwGtIKWccqD2 https://photos.app.goo.gl/NgwPoPxKea4AQIwG2 Rain in the forecast for tomorrow. Going to set me back another day. But at least it’s closed in. Hoping to have it ready for paint by the weekend.

Productive weekend here at the farm. Siding boards are up, windows and doors in, roof on. Just need to finish up a few odds and ends tomorrow and it will be ready for paint. Going with barn red on the outside and will trim the windows and doors in white paint to make it look nice. Going to...

WV is a nice area. A little hillier than I think I want though. I’ve grown up fighting with the hills and rocks of NY and really miss that flat fertile Midwest land. We are looking for big acreage also, like 800-2000 acres and possibly more depending on prices at that time. Last time I looked...

We will have two coop setups this year so I’ll be doing two different ways of keeping it clean. Our home base coop is deep litter and our mobile pasture coop will be cleaned out every day or two to help fertilize the fields we are rotating them on. Our deep litter coop gets cleaned out usually...

Free range all year sure does sound nice. I’m a pansy when it comes to the heat though. I lived in NC for a bit and I hated the summer time there. I like our 4 distinct seasons here in NY but the taxes and cost of living here is getting out of control. After the kids are out of school and the...

My neighbor gets a pickup truck bed load every Saturday from a local warehouse. It’s all sorts of different breads, white, wheat, multi grains, buns, potato, cinnamon raisin, blueberry, etc. it’s all within 3days to a week from its sell by date so they can’t ship it to stores and either junk it...

Nope that would be no problem for a 1 ton truck. I’ll be hauling my ton is a half ton F150. I think it’s technically overweight but I do it all the time with corn and other stuff. Plus I only have 28 miles to go so no big deal. Buying in bulk sure can save a lot of money. Splitting it with...

That’s a good way to do it. We have a truck that can handle the weight no problem and until we buy our new tractor this summer I’ll have my neighbor come over and unload the tote for me with his tractor. Can’t wait to take delivery of the New Holland we will be buying here shortly!

http://www.stonehousegrain.com/index.html They are located in Hudson, NY. They don’t have their prices on the website but they will email you their price list. The GMO free layer mash I’m looking to buy is going for $18 a bag or for $590 they sell it in 1 ton “totes“ as they call them. This...

Hell we are going through 2 50 pound bags every 5 days. Once the chicks get bigger I’m calculating around a little less than a bag a day even with free range. Luckily I just found a mill not that far away that makes organic non gmo feed for a surprisingly good price and I can get them in 1 Ton...

Any updates on these doors? I’m about to order a auto door in the next week and I can’t make up my mind between pullet shut, ADOR and now I find this coop gadget and I like the control board on it so now I’m even more confused