Recent content by makadiwal

Thats all 6 - sorry no more Buff.

Still waiting for a confirmation. These girls are still available.

Hi, they sure are. I can be there this weekend if you are able to pick them up.

Hi all, I have 6 chickens that are in need of a new home. I moved away last year and the parents have been doing their best to look after the flock but are not able to anymore. Feed is almost finished so before we need to replenish, we are hoping to find them a new home. We have 2 Rhode Island...

Just got the call from home Depot today. The metal roofing has arrived. I can go pick it up now. Also need the wood for the coop and sidings. Weather is great today.

Finally. Screwed the corners together. I was planning on pocket holing it all, but I had the perfect length deck screws and it just made more sense really to use those. It does mean that on the front of the run, the right-most post will have the screw holes so might need to cover those up - but...

It was getting late and I wanted to get three sides done so I could stand them up so for the coop side, I decided to just but the basic frame up for now and I will add the "internal" supports tomorrow. Those clamps sure are handy!

And here we have the right side done. My son modelling where the door is going to go. You can also see the pocket holes. I didn't paint everything before the build but I wanted to make sure the bottom of the frame was protected at least so I did one coat the same as the foundation just cuz...

Finally - on to the fun part of the build... putting the frames together. I started with the back wall as the back and sides are going to be the same height and I really wanted to get that length as straight as possible. I was going to build it on the deck and move it after but then realized...

It's been raining ALL WEEK and I haven't been able to go back out to work on the coop. Thankfully, with all that hard rain, I have been watching how much water collects in the coop area and it seems to run down pretty fast. Just went out there this morning and this is what it looked like: I...

She knows when I'm watching her, cuz she gets up and looks at me :)

Unfortunately, I just discovered one of my Buff Orpingtons has gotten wry neck! You can see she's getting trampled over in there so I separated her from the others, but kept her right next to them so she does't get lonely. I've been trying to feed her vitamin B crushed in her water but she...

Here's a pic of my girls, waiting patiently for their new home. You can see the waterer I made out of a plastic honey bottle. It was thick enough to hold the poultry nipple thread without having to worry about leaks and much cleaner with that much traffic in the small brooder.

So last weekend I lifted up the logs and the chain link fence was still bent as ever sticking up on both sides. Very frustrating. So I decided to just dig up the dirt and lay it lower. That is so much better now. :) I left the fence just over the edge of the 4x4 so I can bend it back into...