Recent content by steinway

Quote: I hope you get many answers to this. I am thinking about it also and have checked this brand and another out (premier) as well. Seems like a nice compromise between letting them range or locking them up in a run. I am going to build in the spring and am wondering if I can skip a run...

Quote: The only way it works as it SHOULD is to have it at least 6 inches deep, and DON"T bother it other than to stir it a little if the chickens don't do it enough on their own. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9QuJFt/www.plamondon.com/faq_deep_litter.html/ Thank you for the link Bear Foot...

Quote: How did you encourage her to go broody? I am new, no chickens yet, just learning and this is the first I heard of this.

Quote: Thank you fireguy56

Quote: I am amazed. I just went through all the pictures on your home page and I am impressed. I am doing my research now to build in the spring, wish you lived in Michigan I would hire you / bribe you / whatever it takes - to help me. FANTASTIC.

great thread - I have gotten some fantastic ideas to use. I hope everyone who is building their first coop or run finds this thread. Thanks everyone.

That is a stunt pulled off by a new egg - I am impressed.

Quote: I am new enough to not know if you are pulling my leg. I am assuming you are.

For Henney Penney specifically but anyone can answer - It is my understanding that if you use DLM (deep litter method) that many people do not use poop boards. Do you disagree? Looking at your picture you might be using DLM. Another question - one of the pictures in this thread showed food /...

Quote: I have heard of some cities doing that but I would have assumed that kind of big brother behavior would be in Illinois and not in Colorado. At least they have not made rain illegal.

Quote: Now there is an idea that I have not heard anywhere, smart idea to have a storage area like that. THANK YOU. This thread is opening up other avenues that I am going to have to research, like "olive oil?). Does it have to be that expensive cold pressed kind Seriously, what do you...

This was the rain water post in the forum I referred to earlier. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=585244&p=1 I hope someone else finds it interesting.

Quote: Thank you - I really like the extra waterer idea - I do that with my rabbits. Do you use Sevin and DE?

Quote: 1. I simply lay some newspaper on the ground below their roost. Seems chickens will sleep/roost in the same place each night and >80% of the poop falls in the same place (on the newspaper). 2. We have a store bought hanging waterer. The hardest part is deciding if I want to fill it...

Thanks canesisters - I have rabbits in the other stall right now and have not seen any signs of any predators. There are tons of predators where I am so I am making sure the run will be very well built with hardware cloth all around and burried. I also will have it on top as I see flying...