ALABAMA!!

[huntinwidow]

Any body near Jefferson Co. have any mottled, or Mille fleur bantum cochins or a blue ameraucana rooster?

 

[Tomtommom]

Check craigslist, I've seen a guy in Hueytown with Mille fleurs.

The surprise bin has a different breed every week. They could be anything. The EE's will likely be in one of the other bins. Atleast that is how ours is.

Anyway, without further ado, I want to introduce you to ducttape manson. A spacious home made out of double walled cartboard, courtesy of Ikea. It features a dogfood bag lined bottom, sealed with copious amounts of ducttape, to reduce any spills. The floors will be finished with puppy pads and a sprinkling of shavings, after the first week. A nice 2x4 roost, placed a few inches off the ground. The roof is reinforced with several wood scraps, since the resident felines were causing some sagging. It could likely withstand a pachiderm by now...This generous mansion is 34 by 27 inches, which should do the trick for about... 3 weeks haha. After that, we should have the coop completed and they will move in there, with the heat lamp for a few weeks. Closing it off so they can't get to the run part of the coop just yet, unless weather permits.






It's ugly

Glad it's in my bedroom now, that was adventure on it's own... It WAS in my livingroom, but my bedroom is more consistent in temperature and can be closed off from overly friendly felines. It's warm inside.. I was melting while I was in there taping the bag down haha

 

[Wisher1000]

You should, maybe, rethink the bedroom, chickies are almost NEVER quiet! My brooder stays in the unheated garage and they do fine. They can get directly under the lamp for max heat but usually are in a perfect circle about two inches outside the diameter of the reflector.

 

[bamachicks8]

Got some tsc chicks today will definitely be making a
Trip to feed store Thursday to get some more will upload pics for attempted breeds this will be interesting

 

[Tomtommom]

Good, they may drown out the cat and my fiance's synchronized snoring!

It's just a few weeks, I'll live

they may not, if I put them in the wrong room.

*headed to TSC*

 

[BSisco]

Good, they may drown out the cat and my fiance's synchronized snoring!

It's just a few weeks, I'll live they may not, if I put them in the wrong room.

*headed to TSC*

Have fun and good luck!!! My hubby won't let me get any from TSC since we have about 22 eggs in the incubator right now, and about 8 more coming this week...lol. My little ack yard chicken coop is turning into more than I expected. Thank God for friends who want chickens too!!!!! Think I'm gonna have enough to share...lol

 

[Wisher1000]

Quote: Yes, but will you want to........?

 

[Tomtommom]

I'm baaack. Got my supplies, or well, the basics. Will get grit when they're a little older and will buy shavings when I get the chicks (or the following week, if I go back for another batch).

They did have chicks! However, not AT ALL what I expected... They had straight run black giants (the chick of the week), white rocks and RIR. None of them were on my chicken wish list... and I know very little about their personalities, only that they're BIG and meat/egg chickens.

The cashier told me they get another shipment Wednesday, so that's when I will go again. Or Thursday, when fiance is off and I can go without the kids, since they're quite the handful, especially the "must touch everything" 4 year old. He wanted to get some today so badly, but I explained we needed to get their home ready and I had to talk to my computer friends and figure out more about these breeds.

 

[BSisco]

 [COLOR=800000]Yes, but will you want to........?  [/COLOR]

Not completely sure just yet...lol. At least I know my friend will care for them like I would and I can go visit...

 

[BSisco]

I'm baaack. Got my supplies, or well, the basics. Will get grit when they're a little older and will buy shavings when I get the chicks (or the following week, if I go back for another batch).

They did have chicks! However, not AT ALL what I expected... They had straight run black giants (the chick of the week), white rocks and RIR. None of them were on my chicken wish list... and I know very little about their personalities, only that they're BIG and meat/egg chickens.

The cashier told me they get another shipment Wednesday, so that's when I will go again. Or Thursday, when fiance is off and I can go without the kids, since they're quite the handful, especially the "must touch everything" 4 year old. He wanted to get some today so badly, but I explained we needed to get their home ready and I had to talk to my computer friends and figure out more about these breeds.

I have a friend who has RIR's and loves them, but she got them cause they lay eggs 265 days a year (her husband was a huge egg eater). I'm to sure if she handles them or how friendly they are though. I only see them out in her yard when I go to visit.