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lpyrbby
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Oye, no updates since April!
Okay, first thing's first - I had 7 cockerels from my NYD hatch of 13. Sold 3, froze 4. That left 6 pullets. I moved the 15 turken and 3 brabanter into the in-coop brooder at 3 weeks of age. They're now 11 weeks! I've sold 2 boys and am going to a swap tomorrow to try to sell 5 more turken cockerels and 2 brabanter cockerels. I'm retaining 2 turken cockerels for myself.
Now, let me try to pick up the places I missed lol
I chose these for the nest boxes. They're working well
And this was our solution to closing in the brooder pen. One of the new layers was flying in there with the chicks and getting trapped! I thought she was flying in for their water, but no, she was flying in there to lay her eggs...found those a few weeks later after opening the pen to integrate the chicks.
You can see the wood trim here at the back that the hardware cloth is behind. And obviously, the grass is growing up through the cloth as planned.
Finally bit the bullet and moved the adults into the new coop with the juvies. This is the run dismantling process lol
We wound up just dragging the hoop coop about 20 feet backwards to get it out of the way for the run. I now have my Mosaic chicks in here.
I LOVE this coop and run. I still let them out to free range in the evenings, but they have enough space during the day to get by and the in-coop brooder pen has been invaluable!
Okay, first thing's first - I had 7 cockerels from my NYD hatch of 13. Sold 3, froze 4. That left 6 pullets. I moved the 15 turken and 3 brabanter into the in-coop brooder at 3 weeks of age. They're now 11 weeks! I've sold 2 boys and am going to a swap tomorrow to try to sell 5 more turken cockerels and 2 brabanter cockerels. I'm retaining 2 turken cockerels for myself.
Now, let me try to pick up the places I missed lol
I chose these for the nest boxes. They're working well
And this was our solution to closing in the brooder pen. One of the new layers was flying in there with the chicks and getting trapped! I thought she was flying in for their water, but no, she was flying in there to lay her eggs...found those a few weeks later after opening the pen to integrate the chicks.
You can see the wood trim here at the back that the hardware cloth is behind. And obviously, the grass is growing up through the cloth as planned.
Finally bit the bullet and moved the adults into the new coop with the juvies. This is the run dismantling process lol
We wound up just dragging the hoop coop about 20 feet backwards to get it out of the way for the run. I now have my Mosaic chicks in here.
I LOVE this coop and run. I still let them out to free range in the evenings, but they have enough space during the day to get by and the in-coop brooder pen has been invaluable!
