Welcome from a fellow Arky! Good luck with your new home, poultry adventure and garden, This is a great place to learn with many good people who will help when you have questions.
Well, it's all relative. What seems high to me might not to others. I just don't pay much for footwear of any kind. Or clothes for that matter! haha I'm cheep!
If I remember correctly, I think I paid around $90 for mine a couple of years ago. That's quite a bit for footwear to wear around the farm, or it seemed so at the time. Now I believe it was money well spent.
I have had a pair of Muck boots, chore boot style, for the last 2 years. Warm and comfy. They are what I slip on in the mornings as I head out to feed and water. Yes, the price tag was a bit hard to swallow at first, but hubby talked me into getting them, as he'd had a pair for a couple of...
I think it's pretty impressive with such a short notice! We had a couple of weeks to prepare for our babies and can't say we did as good a job. Ours is still a work in progress, and will be for some time I'm sure, as we live and learn. Good luck with your new adventure!!
You can find all kinds of good info on coop designs and...well, everything else chickens, here on BYC. This is a great forum with so many knowledgeable, caring people to help with almost any situation you might encounter. You have come to the right place!
What a nice Christmas gift! I'm too new to chicken keeping to advise on breed or gender, but wanted to say "Welcome to BYC". Looks like you need to start building a coop, if you haven't already!
What a difference 5 days makes...
Hubby's brother who has a small flock stopped by today and asked it we still had a rooster we would part with. (I put out the word last week about the extra roos, and couldn't get any takers.) He lost his only roo yesterday, so he wanted to take us up on the...