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Tweedle Dee was fine last evening on her nightly 1 hour backyard forage trip out of the hen pen. She did put herself in the pen first and roosted on a feed tub which was strange.She and her male Silkie Bo, Tweedle Dum are ALWAYS last in. This morning, she was where I left her ...still on the...

Quote: Chicken Stars & Exotic Peeps is a great family owned hatchery/hobbie farm in Norco (6th street). Check them out on Facebook for more information. I got 10 chicks there this past summer. Often they have older pullets as well. i.e. Orps, Marans, Amauracanas, Cochins, Silkies, Wyndottes...

Congratulations to all newbies out there. I just joined the club myself this morning It is right about 22 weeks for this Mottled Java gal of ours. I was beginning to wonder when & who would be the first as there are a total of 14 same age sister hens with her (all different breeds; Polish...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=100535 My tool shed was modified into a coop. Most would be chicken wranglers can handle a little hard work. I looked at pictures on the net and through some of my chicken basic books and managed to meet my goal of having something both...

I'm always a big fan of recycling something into a bigger/better than it was before. Nice ideas.

I bought some chicken nipples and made an automatic watering/drip drinking system. Just google "chicken nipples" and you'll see the site called poulty works. Follow their easy demo of hanging a water bucket with chicken nipples and viola, you have a cleaner way to get water to your chickies.

I never get tired at looking at someone's else idea on a coop design. Nice work;)

You buy watermelon for the chickens specifically as no one else in the house really eats it

You make behavior connections from your real peeps to your friends/family peeps.

Nicely done;) I love that you recycled items that you already had; dog runs, igloos etc. What a great shady little spot for them too!

Nevermind on the bird bath question. I took a better look at the picture you posted. I'm definately placing the bird bath I have in the run. Thanks for the idea. ps. I opened your message because of "jungle gym" words. I'm currently experimenting with perches and roosts for my little girls.

What does the bird bath look like? Standard round cement trough? Great idea. I may try it for my girls.

Operation Coop Nation is complete. Sweet 16 little chickies run around like they own the place. I wanted to share the results to inspire others to take the poultry plunge of making their own micro flock. Blog by Chickengnome via My Backyard Chickens...