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post #1 of 19
3/12/12 at 1:08pm
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Hi

We will are new to  chicken raising, I had a few growing up not thats been a long time about 20yrs.We are no going the chick route even though we would love to but we really have no room to raise them in a brooder so we are going to get 5mth olds we are only getting four to start off.

My son and I are working on converting a rabbit hutch a friend gave us to a coop and adding a run, this our Spring Break project. The hutch has a wire floor and I have read many books and magazines and they all say no slippery flooring and that wire isn't good either so does anyone have any suggestions on flooring to put in?  We were thinking astro turf but we didn't want the chickens to think it was grass and peck at it.

 

I will post pictures as soon as we are done.

 

Thanks for all the help.

 

Angie

Wife and  Mom to 2 young men (17 &22), 4 dogs, 2 indoor cats, 2 feral cats, 1 rabbit, 1 parrot, 4 ferrets, 1 betta fish and now 3 hens and 4 pullets    we LOVE our lil zoo

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post #2 of 19
3/12/12 at 1:14pm

welcome-byc.gif  Hi from Rosenberg, TX!!

Lisa   (one very special husband, 1 ornery cat, 3 Australorps, 3 Red Speckled Sussex, and 2 Barred Rocks)

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Lisa   (one very special husband, 1 ornery cat, 3 Australorps, 3 Red Speckled Sussex, and 2 Barred Rocks)

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post #3 of 19
3/12/12 at 3:29pm

Welcome to BYC. Alot of people use wire flooring so the droppings fall onto the ground. Mine are in a wooden coop with wood flooring, I use hay as bedding. Others use wood shavings. It's up to you how you want to do it.


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post #4 of 19
3/12/12 at 4:26pm

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Dorothy: The woman keeps a chicken in her home, how normal can she be?
Rose: I kept a chicken in my home.
Dorothy: You see my point?
The Golden Girls "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara"

 

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post #5 of 19
3/12/12 at 5:17pm

welcome-byc.gif from central Texas. I would keep the wire floors, I use rabbit hutches for my birds until I let them out with no problems. But you can put some hay or something in there.

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Get on the waiting list for Chocolate, Royal Palm, Midget White or Blue Slate turkey eggs for 2013. NO PREPAY
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post #6 of 19
3/12/12 at 6:32pm
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TIME is the best thing to spend on a child!
Always calibrate your hygrometer before you incubate!!

Home to Black East Indies, Mandarins, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rock, Golden Buffs, Welsummers, Ameraucanas, Black Australorp, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Two Weimaraners, Two beautiful daughters and a great DH who builds whatever I need!

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post #7 of 19
3/12/12 at 7:22pm

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 Crested Ducks                     Common Chicken Practices          Learn more about Avian Influenza

 

 

Helen: Daria, do you have to look at everything in such a negative light?

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post #8 of 19
3/12/12 at 8:48pm

Hello and welcome from Southwest Ohio...glad you joined

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post #9 of 19
3/12/12 at 8:51pm

Welcome to BYC, Angie!

 

I can't think of anything except wood that would work for flooring.

 

 

 

Good luck! 

 

 

 

 

  AnnElise Clark

 

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  AnnElise Clark

 

~Chickens are like potato chips, you can't just have one!~ 

 

Silver Laced Wyandotte's, Silkies, Ameraucana's, Easter Egger's, Belgian d'anvers, Leghorns, California Whites, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Black Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, one Black Jersey Giant rooster, Guinea's, Ducks, and one Sweetgrass turkey tom. 

 

 

 

 

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post #10 of 19
3/12/12 at 10:21pm
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Thank you everyone for the warm welcomes and the progress of the rabbit hutch modification and making of the run is going well, should be done tomorrow hopefully if the weather holds up. I think we will try to put something down over the wire then cover with hay. Thanks again.

Wife and  Mom to 2 young men (17 &22), 4 dogs, 2 indoor cats, 2 feral cats, 1 rabbit, 1 parrot, 4 ferrets, 1 betta fish and now 3 hens and 4 pullets    we LOVE our lil zoo

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Wife and  Mom to 2 young men (17 &22), 4 dogs, 2 indoor cats, 2 feral cats, 1 rabbit, 1 parrot, 4 ferrets, 1 betta fish and now 3 hens and 4 pullets    we LOVE our lil zoo

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