Recent content by NCchickKJM

Hi Ballerina Girl. My girls are good decorators for sure. My chicken run/coop was so beautiful for a few weeks...now like a people house it certainly looks "lived in". Regretfully I am strongly leaning towards painting the outside of baseboards a dark sand color. It is going to ruin my beautiful...

I loved your reply! I feel better knowing I was not the only one with the dream of a white run (that didn't stay white very long). I agree that they are my dusty but very happy girls. And they bring me such joy. I'll just pretend I intended the white base to be the color of sand.

Flock Master...here is the link to the Coup Deville....mine looks practically the same.Well it did before the chickens moved in :-) I am in NC and I am loving being a backyard chicken keeper. My six girls are so, so sweet and a joy to watch. I let them free range about an hour before dusk. We...

I feel better...Thx.

I fashioned my coop and run after the all white beautiful Coop Deville coop I saw on Backyard Chickens. (check it out if you haven't seen it) I use sand in my run. My coop/run was so beautiful until the chickens started making dust baths and now the white boards at the base are a tee total...

The girl outside the coop. I was told she was an Easter Egger when I got her.

Hi Michael. I'm a newbie too. This is an amazing site....it's like the chicken keeping Library of Congress! I have a lot to learn. Some days I didn't think I would make it through the coop design and building phase....what a mind blowing experience. But I finally figured out, as folks said, some...

Hi Everyone! I thought it was time for me to join the BYC forum family. I am very new to keeping backyard chicks and would NOT have made it this far without the unbelievably helpful info on this site which I have only referenced about a thousand times in the last two months. So thanks to all of...