Coop De Ville
After moving to the county and wanting to start raising some of our own eggs and meat I decided we needed a coop. During the design and construction, the "coop" ended up looking closer to a miniature barn. This project has ended up taking more time and money then originally...
Thanks for all the compliments, I appreciate it. Several questions have come in since I posted the link to my coop. I will try and answer some of them.
I started the construction of the coop in the middle of October, but I started collecting all the materials about a month before that. At...
I finally have enough post that I can post links and pictures. Below is a link to my coop page. If any of you have any suggestions on how I can improve it please let me know.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=87811
I finally have enough posts so I can past in the link to my coop. It is still under construction so I will be updating it.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=87811
For the first two weeks he had them they were in the garage in a brooder. The second two week they were closed in the coop with heat lamps. For the past week and a half they have been in the coop with the door open during the day and they would always be back in the coop when the sun set. It...
I am a fairly new chicken owner and have a questions. The chicks we have are 5 1/2 weeks old, about 3 days ago I took away the heat lamp and ever since we have had a hard time getting them into the coop at night. Tonight we had to pick up the sleeping chickens outside and put them into the...
Thanks for the welcome, below is the list of chicks we got.
We ordered ours from McMurray Hatchery and here is what we got.
2 ARAUCANA Females
4 BLUE ANDALUSIANS Females
4 SPECKLED SUSSEX Females
4 BUFF ROCK Females
11 NEW HAMPSHIRES Males
4 NEW...
I just joined BYC and found this thread. Hopefully there are others around me I can get some advise. We live near Gardner, KS. I will spend some time going back through all the old posts to find out who is around.
Here is all my new member information
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We brand new to chicken keeping. We just received our shipment of 57 day old chicks about 6 weeks ago.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
We currently have 56...
I am considered a "new" member so I am not able to post links on the forum.
If you are interested in seeing my coop you can paste this
viewblog.php?id=87811
I still have a few things to finish up on the coop and the page, but here is the progress so far.
Aaron