- Jan 25, 2008
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I will be attending college full time soon, I have been attending full time, but at a local community college. Now, I will be advancing to a college that is a couple hours away. Chances are, hubby and I will end up in an apartment and my birdies will stay with the in-laws.
I want to leave as small as a burden as possible. I have a pretty good collection of birds going, and I'm not ready to part with them. LOL
I am thinking about installing a type of Pipe/Hopper Feeder. I was looking at the PVC feeders. I need a feeder large enough to hold at LEAST a 50lb bag of layer pellets at a time. I would love to be able to build two feeders that hold 75lbs each(1.5 bags) of laying pellets. This way I can fill or top off the feeders when I'm here and not worry my in-laws about running out and fretting over my flock.
I am also thinking about the automatic filling water dog bowls. The kind containing a float valve. They just plug into the waterhose and you leave the hose on. To clean you just dump them over and put them upright again. I plan to put the 2"X4" rectangular wire circled around the water, to keep chicken feet and ducks out of the water.
I'm also considering building some rollaway nest boxes. That way eggs are out of the way of hens. This wouldn't be a big issue, because eggs won't accumulate in the coop inbetween periods. I don't mind asking the in-laws or my brothers to gather eggs, I just don't want them fussing with waterhoses and heavy bags of feed and whatnot.
Am I forgetting anything?
I know that some would just sell their flock. I'm not at the point, I wish to do that. I will be thinning some and reconstructing my coop for suffiency in between visits. Visits will only be a few days apart.
Quail are pretty self-sufficient in their coop. An automatic waterer run off a 5 gallon bucket that collects rainwater. We'll be adding a PVC feeder to their cage as well, just not one nearly as large.
Ducks are good to go, they either free range on the pond or stay in the chicken coop with the chickens.
-Kim
I want to leave as small as a burden as possible. I have a pretty good collection of birds going, and I'm not ready to part with them. LOL
I am thinking about installing a type of Pipe/Hopper Feeder. I was looking at the PVC feeders. I need a feeder large enough to hold at LEAST a 50lb bag of layer pellets at a time. I would love to be able to build two feeders that hold 75lbs each(1.5 bags) of laying pellets. This way I can fill or top off the feeders when I'm here and not worry my in-laws about running out and fretting over my flock.
I am also thinking about the automatic filling water dog bowls. The kind containing a float valve. They just plug into the waterhose and you leave the hose on. To clean you just dump them over and put them upright again. I plan to put the 2"X4" rectangular wire circled around the water, to keep chicken feet and ducks out of the water.
I'm also considering building some rollaway nest boxes. That way eggs are out of the way of hens. This wouldn't be a big issue, because eggs won't accumulate in the coop inbetween periods. I don't mind asking the in-laws or my brothers to gather eggs, I just don't want them fussing with waterhoses and heavy bags of feed and whatnot.
Am I forgetting anything?
I know that some would just sell their flock. I'm not at the point, I wish to do that. I will be thinning some and reconstructing my coop for suffiency in between visits. Visits will only be a few days apart.
Quail are pretty self-sufficient in their coop. An automatic waterer run off a 5 gallon bucket that collects rainwater. We'll be adding a PVC feeder to their cage as well, just not one nearly as large.
Ducks are good to go, they either free range on the pond or stay in the chicken coop with the chickens.
-Kim
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