Recent content by orchidchick

I used the panels on the top as well to make everything predatorproof and wrapped the the bottom half with hardware cloth, the upper half and roof with chicken wire and laid a skirt around the perimeter of galvinized garden wire that I just slid underneath. It has worked out well. When I got...

Just getting caught up on my reading....That is Swell!!!!! What a tranformation! You need to get that finished in time for outdoor festivites so you can enjoy it Orchidchick

Hi, and thanks! it works out well here. Those are those SunTuf Roofing panels. You can get them at Home Depot and they come in different colors as well as clear and a shaded grey and you can cut them to fit. Very easy to manage as I have a really bad back! and they store easy , too...

Boy,do I know what you mean! It been a soaker of a week! This is what I have done for this kind of weather. I call them my "storm shutters". You can't really see it, but there is about an 8" span left open (covered with Hardware cloth) at the top covered by the overhang, and gaps on the...

Thanks, guys. Here's mine, although I have my "storm windows' on in the first pic. It is a convertedcattle feeder. I also had to get a few more chickens (shockeroo???), so there is another 6' x 6' run section off the back, so there's 6' x 18' altogether now.. Under the tarp is chain link...

Hopefully, he found a safe place to roost and you find him in the am...... Orchidchick

Of course, when the doors are shut, its much more private in there! If I remember correctly, this box is 30" long. Orchidchick

The roosters can get in there to show the juvies what its all about! I notice I don't hear all that complaining waiting for the favorite spot anymore either. Orchidchick

That is one sweet coop! You did a great job the way it is tucked so nicely into the property like that,and the way it matches the house. Orchidchick

Sad for your loss too, Nifty. I just found my roo passed on Tuesday morning, and wanted to do a necropsy as well, but am going in for a spine procudure today, and just couldn't get it together in time with everything else going on. I noticed someone else here mentioned their chicken had just...

Thanks again for the kind words all. It's hard to explain to anybody but you BYC folks the connection we have with our chicken family. Orchidchick

Thank you all. I have been thinking of all the angles as well. This area has a ton a black widows naturally occuring, we find them all the time in the gate latches at the farm I work at. So that is a distinct possibility, as well as the toxic plant scenario. But in the big picture, I guess I...