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  1. blakeh1

    From rags to riches, let me know what you think (my journey on my chicken coop build)

    No rooster. I have 10 pullets on order now(2 Easter eggers, 3 barred rocks, 5 buff Orpington). Coop is huge but all I need is 10 birds
  2. blakeh1

    From rags to riches, let me know what you think (my journey on my chicken coop build)

    I’ve been out of the chicken game for a few years now when I sold my land and home a few years ago and temporarily moved to the city while on the hunt for some bigger better property. We closed on our new place about 6 months ago (10 acres) and it was beautiful but the previous owner had not...
  3. blakeh1

    Finally no more food wasted!

    I tilted it slightly towards the end I used a 2" hole saw. And the cardboard is to keep the feed from flowing out over the holes. Watch the video i posted up there ^. And it explains it perfectly  
  4. blakeh1

    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    There's a good video on how to make it
  5. blakeh1

    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    2" holes yes they can get their whole head in
  6. blakeh1

    Finally no more food wasted!

    I wired mine in between the gaps of my 1x4s I made the coop out of
  7. blakeh1

    Finally no more food wasted!

    Here's a good video on YouTube. I made my barrier out of cardboard I glued to the inside of the feeder pipe. The elbow I had has a lip that won't allow the pipe to go that far down like the video.
  8. blakeh1

    Finally no more food wasted!

    After going thru different designs I've seen on this great site. I decided to make my own with a couple ideas from others. I got 4" thin wall pipe with a 90 and two caps. Glued a piece of cardboard inside the upright pipe that holds the feed about 1/2 inside the "feeder" pipe so it would only...
  9. blakeh1

    DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

    Finally no more food everywhere! My new 4" pipe feeder. The girls were very confused at first but I dropped a few millworms in and whala.
  10. blakeh1

    Help with run design, ideas (pics inside)

    I get all my chickens from the same breeder. They are 10 weeks old now. Started with barred rocks then got 2 more gsl. 2 br's and 1 gsl got killed so we now have 2 gsl 2 brown leghorns And 2 Dominique's She was out of the barred so we decided to mix it up lol
  11. blakeh1

    Help with run design, ideas (pics inside)

    A little over a month. Only 1 travesty from free ranging them, but it was enough to make me do something
  12. blakeh1

    Help with run design, ideas (pics inside)

    Well after debating closed run or not I decided I was more worried about keeping them in there "place". It's not hawk proof but we haven't had a lot of problems with hawks. They can also hide under or in their coop. They have ample shade. Let me know what you think I ran the same fencing we...
  13. blakeh1

    Help with run design, ideas (pics inside)

    I have been free ranging my chickens as I live on 200 acres. The one acre around my house is fenced in with this Which the chickens cannot get thru except in a couple spots which I am going to fix. I was thinking of building them a smaller fenced in area(run) using the existing corner of my...
  14. blakeh1

    Need some opinions on my "run" idea

    Thank you for the advice. I guess I will just bite the bullet and make them a true run. All of your reasons make perfect since. I am a first time chicken owner, I know they will still be happy outside in the run, but I just wanted to see of I could make the free ranging work. I will still...
  15. blakeh1

    Need some opinions on my "run" idea

    I recently had my first ever attack. Something got 4 of my 6 chickens that I free ranged so I am going to do what I said I wasn't and make them a so called run. I live on 200 acres but my house on one acre fenced in with small gap welded wire. The problem is the 9 week olds that I have and am...
  16. blakeh1

    4 chickens vanished! How long to wait?

    Yep after doing some searching I found some feathers of both colors ******. I wanted to free range but that looks like it's not going to be an option. To bad they are out of the br's luckily the place I get them still have some options of the same age as mine. Crazy I was only not outside...
  17. blakeh1

    4 chickens vanished! How long to wait?

    I have 3 br's and 3 gsl that free range every day. I have had them since they were around 4 weeks. They are now almost 9. Since they've grown they wonder farther and farther from the coop(I live on 200 acres). They like to go in an area behind the coop that is outside the fence and heavily...
  18. blakeh1

    Need some help. Fighting!

    Ok thank you. That's what I figured but my wife and daughter are worried to death a out it lol.
  19. blakeh1

    Need some help. Fighting!

    So I got 4 barred rocks and 2 gsl they are all 8 weeks. I recently found out that 1 of the br's was a roo so today I called the breeder and exchanged it for a gsl of the same age. All these birds were raised together. So I get the new gsl home and let her out to free range with the other 5...
  20. blakeh1

    Chicken crack

    Broke it up in my hand
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