I came home to find three littles (but could only get a pic of one) under my Bantam Cochin Elsa! There were five, but only three hatched. She must've hatched them this weekend, but we had record amounts of rainfall and I didn't get out to the coop much. Thankfully, the rain is gone and it was...
Hi! I am local to you, I live in Verdigris. Another option for a pre-fab coop is Metro Building Supply. They have multiple locations, but the one in BA has chicken coops, I really like the loafing shed coop. Also, there's quite a few local FB chicken pages that always have coops for sale...
Did you try typing 'dog kennel roof' in search box? That will pull up quite a few examples for you, most with pictures. This is one of the first posts that pops up when you do a search. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/419303/chain-link-dog-kennel-for-chicken-run-enclosure The first picture in...
How many chickens are you going to have? Those pre-built coops are teeny-tiny and the number of chickens the manufacturers say they can hold is usually not accurate. If possible, I'd try to make the entire structure into a coop, and to answer your question, roosts should probably go on opposite...
Here's our two handsome, crazy, NOISY, boys! They are two peas in a pod, and frequently fly from their coop to the back porch which is quite a distance. Stampy's favorite spot is on top of our wooden swingset.
Mohawk (Moe, Moezer, etc):
Stampy:
And we just got four new girls, one is a...
It looks similar to my little guy who's a bantam white-laced red Cornish rock. Since he's hatchery quality, he doesn't have much of the red. He didn't have a comb hardly at all for the longest time. This is him around 15-16 weeks. Any chance yours is a bantam? Those definitely look like Cornish...
LOL, we've had a few chickens test out the slide on our play set. Not purposely, but were pecking around on the wood and next thing you know, whoosh! Down the slide! One of our Cochins loves to sit in the swings and sway back and forth. The wooden play set is probably used more by our chickens...
I have his twin, this is Mohawk! Ginger Red OEGB and bantam Nankins are so similar and I'm not quite sure which one Mohawk is. Although, I did get him together with our other boy who is a lighter color Black-tailed buff OEGB. I'm leaning towards Ginger red OEGB for Mohawk over Nankin, although...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/590043/dog-kennel-coop-how-to-make-door-area-predator-proof
I searched dog kennel gate and this came up, hope that helps!
I just had to share this. My son had a friend over after school today. I went in his room to check on him and found this! Lol, doing what boys do...playing iPad games and taking chicken selfies. Thankfully Tori, our bantam Cochin is good sport and doesn't mind showing off feathers for a few...
I don't really have any advice, but I'm also (north) east Oklahoma. Mosquitos are horrible, and the rainy weather all last week didn't help. (It's too bad earthquakes don't scare away mosquitos! ) My kids love to help me with chicken chores, but right now I won't let them. Five minutes outside...