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I had some strange stuff happen. I have a large stacked brooder, but when I get a small hatch like from my broodies I put them in some tank brooders I have. In the last few weeks I have lost 3 young chicks. All three were bloody and I assumed the hatch mates got to pecking on them and then when they got blood they pecked till they died. Day before yesterday I walked into the brooder house and there was a large green shiney bug (like a large june bug) latched on the butt of one of the little chicks and had drawed blood. I had to pull the dang thing off. Today there was a large black bug that was attached to one of the little buggers butt again. Has anyone ever had this happen. Now looking back I would say the bugs is what caused the problems from day one. The brooder house sets under a night light and lots of bugs fly to the light constantly. Then there is lights in the tanks. I assume the bugs are attracted to the light. I moved one set to the big brooder so they are bug free. Have 6 left in another tank. I will rig up some sort of screen on it. CHICKENS ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT BUGS, Not the other way around.

NN chicks are extra cute - later they are not so much, but they are great birds. I saw some NNx LF chchins once. Now those were "unique"!

Originally Posted by Ksane 
The layers are all together, I guess I hadn't considered doing it that way because then I'd have the roosters all together in with the hens. Would all those roosters get along? There'd be like 5 or 6. How many boys do you have? I do have a game cock of some mixture (Spoc) in the layer's yard and he tolerates the 2 Silkie boys just fine. Which is odd because he won't put up with any other males. Hmmmmm.....that might very well be the way to do it with the ones that are babies right now. I don't want want to mix the Fav boy and grown Cochin boy with the  babies though. But all the babies really could grow up and live together, couldn't they??? You might be onto something. Back to my drawing pages!

Could you make some smaller cooops like Aframes to house the males that don't get along with others well?  I have one male that he just can't be around the others so I took him and his 3 girls and put them in a a-frame that gets moved every other day.  He is happy and so are the rest of the flock.  We have thought about making small a-frames for batcholer pads for single roos without a flock of their own yet.  I bought two round ones at auction last week in Harrah for our extra Golden Salmon Marans boy and our extra FBCM roo.  They seem quiet happy to be in there.  Of course they will be MUCH happier once I get them their own flock of girls, lol.

Originally Posted by mjgigax 

NN chicks are extra cute - later they are not so much, but they are great birds. I saw some NNx LF chchins once. Now those were "unique"!

 

That is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

Okay so Kurt and I know we need at least two more Aframe coops built this weekend and one more hoop house built.  I have the materials for the hoop house already.  It will be identical to our last one.  The Aframes I want to make I want them lighter than the others we built.  I love the others they will last FOREVER but they are a big hard for me to move by myself much.  So who has pics of some very easy build, easy to move a-frames?   I was thinking about not putting a floor in the "coop" area of the a-frame but I like knowing they are up off the ground in a rain storm I just need to figure out how to make it lighter in that area.  I am also considering not covering the entire bottom with wire and just do a skirt of wire around the bottom edges to keep out diggers.  We haven't had any issues but I know that doesn't mean we won't.  I am going to Lowes after work to get 2x4's I already used up most of hubby's cedar he had milled.  Time to get that man back to putting his chainsaw to good work instead of running off to the races, lol.

We really get a kick out of him.  Ask Red " do you want to go see the babies " and he is all wiggly and running to the door or the gate.  Then he lies as close to the chicks as the hens will allow and whines if one of his favorites moves too far away  He is really alert to any that are hurt.  He whined until I checked a cage where a little one had a cut on it's neck from a wire in the cage.   GOOD DOG!

   There are already feathers everywhere

   will do...

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Originally Posted by mjgigax 

NN chicks are extra cute - later they are not so much, but they are great birds. I saw some NNx LF chchins once. Now those were "unique"!

 

 

That is the cutest thing I have ever seen!

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Originally Posted by artsyrobin 

hey tony, hows the dog working out for you?

has anyone used vinegar to clean the coops with, been reading how it kills bacteria and is used as a disinfectant....

I haven't used it in coops I use Oxine in there but I do use it in the house with a little bit of lemon juice added.  It works great!  For a scrub to get rust off counter tops or the bath for hard water marks add salt and lemon to it to make it abrasive.

I had some strange stuff happen. I have a large stacked brooder, but when I get a small hatch like from my broodies I put them in some tank brooders I have. In the last few weeks I have lost 3 young chicks. All three were bloody and I assumed the hatch mates got to pecking on them and then when they got blood they pecked till they died. Day before yesterday I walked into the brooder house and there was a large green shiney bug (like a large june bug) latched on the butt of one of the little chicks and had drawed blood. I had to pull the dang thing off. Today there was a large black bug that was attached to one of the little buggers butt again. Has anyone ever had this happen. Now looking back I would say the bugs is what caused the problems from day one. The brooder house sets under a night light and lots of bugs fly to the light constantly. Then there is lights in the tanks. I assume the bugs are attracted to the light. I moved one set to the big brooder so they are bug free. Have 6 left in another tank. I will rig up some sort of screen on it. CHICKENS ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT BUGS, Not the other way around.

hey tony, hows the dog working out for you?

Okay so Kurt and I know we need at least two more Aframe coops built this weekend and one more hoop house built.  I have the materials for the hoop house already.  It will be identical to our last one.  The Aframes I want to make I want them lighter than the others we built.  I love the others they will last FOREVER but they are a big hard for me to move by myself much.  So who has pics of some very easy build, easy to move a-frames?   I was thinking about not putting a floor in the "coop" area of the a-frame but I like knowing they are up off the ground in a rain storm I just need to figure out how to make it lighter in that area.  I am also considering not covering the entire bottom with wire and just do a skirt of wire around the bottom edges to keep out diggers.  We haven't had any issues but I know that doesn't mean we won't.  I am going to Lowes after work to get 2x4's I already used up most of hubby's cedar he had milled.  Time to get that man back to putting his chainsaw to good work instead of running off to the races, lol.