5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

You guys been here gabbing ,I have been cleaning coop and building another for my broody hen,,,,She setting on 11eggs you seen her,,,
One is going to be 4ft longx3ft widex4fttall for my Maran pair


On one of my heated coop and i build another to get the chabos off the wire get them down on some wood chips/shavings



.Gotta go plow the driveway out about 4inches

of fresh snow,,,Happy holidays my peeps,,Waving a BIG HAND from Fairbanks

PEACE

 

[bantambury]

yeah my dogs and cats are like that also, one day best friends the next they hate each other

lol! talk about it!



here is how my cat phoebe sleeps.

 

[bantambury]

.Waving a BIG HAND from Fairbanks

PEACE

I love your JB! here is mine:

he may be the daddy of 8 of my eggs....they will be all mixes, being a result of a mixed flock.
once we have more land I will separate them and have a coop for different breeds.

WAVING A HAND FROM FUQUAY!!!

(though its 80 degrees here)

 

[JLaw]

hmmmm.....the kitty scooper sounds good. also, the chickens could use the sand as a grit...correct?

is it ok for chicks to be in sand?

agreed. I will do that too. I thought I knew most....there are still a few breeds missing though, like jap bantams, or JB



so once you do that did you use a heat lamp?

Sand should be fine for them if its clean. Can use as grit i would still do paper towls for a day or two till they lean what is food.

I only put a boarder around the bottom about 6 inches or so. Also i tried to have the door by edge of table so cat couldnt stand on anything to get paws in. I used a heat lamp angled through front door. This was a plastic pet port with wire front door. My cat one i cut top off and made a lid of 2x2s and hardware cloth.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Okay, since we are talking brooder's I have to show mine off.The original idea was to build a simple box. This is in my computer room on an island we got as a tear out from a job DH was working on (the storage under is great). The lid is just screened and hinged. He built a removable divider because with different age groups it can be necessary. But, my favorite feature is the plexiglass viewing window. I pull up a chair and sit sipping coffee watching chicks in the morning....very peaceful. I love that we painted it so it wasn't an eyesore, as it is a permanent fixture in our house (I swear I'm not a hatching addict

). Drawback: My computer room does get mighty dusty.

 

[chickengirl1193]

lol! talk about it! here is how my cat phoebe sleeps.

awe that's cute

 

[Whoops]

Okay, since we are talking brooder's I have to show mine off.The original idea was to build a simple box. This is in my computer room on an island we got as a tear out from a job DH was working on (the storage under is great). The lid is just screened and hinged. He built a removable divider because with different age groups it can be necessary. But, my favorite feature is the plexiglass viewing window. I pull up a chair and sit sipping coffee watching chicks in the morning....very peaceful. I love that we painted it so it wasn't an eyesore, as it is a permanent fixture in our house (I swear I'm not a hatching addict

). Drawback: My computer room does get mighty dusty.

A divider? Awesome idea! I will have to steal that idea.

 

[ronniewayne]

Queen City! How bout that! I grew up in Hughes Springs!

small world I bet chicken world in wa is a bit different

 

[MontanaDolphin]

hmmmm.....the kitty scooper sounds good. also, the chickens could use the sand as a grit...correct?

is it ok for chicks to be in sand?

Yes, the sand is their grit. And yes, sand is ok for chicks. Lots of BYCers use sand in their brooders

 

[ronniewayne]

North teas. Is that the real place or miss spelling

lol that should be texas my chicken spell checker wasn't working