Recent content by Mike121

  1. Mike121

    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    Happy to report that yesterday the chicks came into the floor of the coop all by themselves and stayed there all day. I checked on them periodically throughout the day and never saw one up on the platform or up on the roost. They remained on the floor scratching around in the hay, although they...
  2. Mike121

    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    So yesterday and today I helped the chicks into the floor of the coop and stayed in there to help keep the big chickens at bay. So far that seems to be working out. Even when I step away, the big chickens seem to be mostly ignoring the chicks. The only exception is if the chicks get near the big...
  3. Mike121

    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    Last night I moved the big chickens outside into the run and closed the run door. Then I helped all the little chicks into the floor of the coop. Once down there, they loved it! They were scratching all around in the hay, eating up bugs and wheat seeds, etc. I let them hang out down there for a...
  4. Mike121

    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    Yes, the other chickens used to get up on the platform all the time and look at the chicks through the wire. Heck, now that it's been open the big chickens will go inside their pen to eat their food and drink their water. The chicks just run around inside the pen to get away from them but won't...
  5. Mike121

    10 Week Old Chicks Afraid To Leave Pen

    So a while back I bought some pullets and put them in a chick pen that's inside my main coop. A few weeks ago I figured the chicks were old enough to introduce to the rest of the flock so I tied the door to their pen open. I added some pallets around the floor of the coop so they'd have places...
  6. Mike121

    Repurposed Shed Turned Chicken Coop

    My original plan was to frame something out with metal or wood, but after seeing this post, I'm seriously considering framing it out of PVC and seeing how that works.
  7. Mike121

    Repurposed Shed Turned Chicken Coop

    This is our first time with a chicken run. The chickens at the last house were free-range. We're right next to a highway now, though, so we thought that's not the best idea. Oh yeah, I definitely don't WANT to do that, and I'll certainly make changes to it this fall. I guess I just didn't...
  8. Mike121

    Repurposed Shed Turned Chicken Coop

    Ventilation is something we're still working out to get better. There are 6 "windows" cut into the side of the shed. The plan is to make those much larger, and make them so that we can open/close them, from the outside, depending on the outdoor temperatures. Also, the entire roof line on the...
  9. Mike121

    Look But No Touch

    There are 12 of those little gals in there. Looks like most of them are hanging out over by the food/water. So my plan is to leave their food and water inside the pen so they still have access to that. I'm thinking I'll probably just tie the right side door to the pen open (where the platform...
  10. Mike121

    Repurposed Shed Turned Chicken Coop

    This year we decided that we wanted to get some new chickens. After looking at the cost of some of the big box store chicken coops, I decided it'd be much better, and much cheaper, to just re-purpose and old shed we weren't using into a chicken coop. The interior of the chicken coop is 12' wide...
  11. Mike121

    Look But No Touch

    So in just a few weeks my pullets will all be around 8 weeks old. I'm wanting to get them out of their pen and let them out into the coop/run as they choose. I see a lot of folks saying I should introduce them via look but don't touch. Right now the pullets are all in a pen that's inside the...
  12. Mike121

    One egg a week ago and nothing since

    No, and I've looked all around the inside of the coop and out in the run.
  13. Mike121

    One egg a week ago and nothing since

    Yeah, we've had chickens once before and I knew the eggs would be small starting out. I was wondering about the coloring. I'm really more concerned about the fact that we've only gotten one egg, and that was a week ago. Since then, nothing!
  14. Mike121

    One egg a week ago and nothing since

    I have a couple hens that are still fairly young and just now reaching laying age. One of them did lay an egg last week, though, and I've gotten nothing since. Is this normal for them to not lay again for a while after their first egg? Also, the egg was like gray/blue and very small. Could this...
  15. Mike121

    What subject are you a nerd in?

    Tough to say without knowing the specs but the first thing I noticed is that someone definitely needs a lesson in cable management. 😳
See more
Back
Top Bottom