The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[NanaLynn]

For those of us who don't have dirt floor hen houses:

Who uses dropping boards?
Do you like them?
How often to you clean/maintain them?
Are yours removable?
Do you like them?
If you could re-make them, is there anything you'd do differently?

I had planned to use them but decided to go with sand instead. I got tired of sifting through the sand so I switched to deep litter and I love using the deep litter method. I have 21 hens now so there's a lot of poop in the hen house and deep litter is just less work for me then sand or poop boards. JMO

Has anyone on here tired this:

Little Giant Automatic Game Bird Fount Waterer

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Giant-...qid=1398008677&sr=8-20&keywords=chicken+water

I'm thinking of getting one in the future but am uncertain about how it will work. I have tried the nipple system and cup system but am now using just a regular fill and flip waterer right now.

 

[misbhaven]

here is the duck coop the DH built. he is getting faster only took day and a half to get it done instead of 4 weeks.....lol

 

[LadyBehir]

That is a neat duck set-up!

 

[armorfirelady]

Working on the herb planters that go against coop before dinner today. It's looking good so far. After dinner I am going to work on them some more.

I was putting new color zip ties on my BR today and I picked one out of the nesting box, sat down & out popped her egg she was not impressed. It didn't break tho.

Happy Easter everyone !!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Working on the herb planters that go against coop before dinner today. It's looking good so far. After dinner I am going to work on them some more.

I was putting new color zip ties on my BR today and I picked one out of the nesting box, sat down & out popped her egg

she was not impressed. It didn't break tho.

Happy Easter everyone !!

Happy Easter to you too! And everyone else

 

[misbhaven]

That is a neat duck set-up!

he plans on making another door where the little square plywood piece is at and adding a step system for them to walk in and out of to the garden area from their coop area.

 

[RedRidge]

Ok. .. Here's the pic of the pine pellets after they have been down on an outside path for 5 months. Same texture dry or wet...

 

[Leahs Mom]

Thanks, Redridge.

It sounds like they may not work for places where the floor isn't dirt from your description since they need the moisture from the ground. Am I right?

 

[misbhaven]

I planted some regular peas along my runs for the chickens to graze on..I i had a bunch of left over seed..Regular peas just aren't worth the effort for 7 people...

 

[armorfirelady]

My mom put these in my Easter basket. I got the pattern from someone on the ny thread.

I don't know why pic is up side down??