ALABAMA!!

[Jseaborn]

I'm from woodland about 6 miles from Ga state line.

 

[Wisher1000]

Welcome, JSea! Glad to have you here with us. Which highway is Woodland on or which Georgia city are you close to? I have not heard of Woodland before.

Tom - the coop looks great! I would be tempted to just put up three walls on the end under the roof, hang roosts, and attach a shelf for nest boxes on top and food/water beneath. If you build the floor 2' above ground, it will be difficult to clean underneath and inside without doing some major crawling!

Just a thought..........

 

[Jseaborn]

Off of 431. 45 minutes from auburn or 30 minutes from newman ga

 

[Hilda the Hen]

Welcome lash and Hilda, I'm in Jefferson Co. also.

Thanks tmoore, how many do you have and what kind?

 

[Stumpy]

Tomtommom, it's looking good!

 

[Wisher1000]

JSea - Did you go to the Poultry Show in Newnan?

 

[Jseaborn]

no, I didn't know there was one....

 

[Wisher1000]

It was weekend-before-last, take a look here...

http://www.poultryshowcentral.com/Chattahoochee_Valley_Poultry_Association.html

http://www.cvpa-newnan.org/

 

[bbdal]

Advice needed please...so we got our chicks a little over 4 weeks ago. Some were 1 week old and some were 3 days old. At first we had them together. The older ones were too rough for the younger ones so we separated them. They are now outgrowing their brooders. We have 8 smaller ones (5 RIR and 3 cochin frizzles which are still tiny). The 7 older ones are all RIR. So the older ones are growing like crazy and the younger are not growing nearly as fast. They seem to be much further than 4 days behind. Their brooder is smaller (about 3 ft x 16 in x 16 in high) than the older ones' brooder. The older ones can actually perch, etc. They are now a little over 5 weeks old and the others will be 5 weeks on Thursday. We have the fully enclosed 10x10 hen house ready. Would it be too early to put the older ones in there with a brooder lamp after this cold spell through the weekend? They have most of their feathers already. We have also divided the hen house into a section for them and put a tarp over part of it to help keep some heat in their area. So, we need advice on why the younger ones aren't growing as fast and how soon we can put at least the older ones in the hen house. We are in Shelby Co. Thanks!

 

[Tomtommom]

The "indoor" coop section is just going to be in the last 1/3 of the whole thing, 4 feet deep (between the last two timbers). It's not gonna be too hard to reach. I plan on putting their food and water under it. The run will be 96 sqft if we do it that way, the roosting quarters 32 sqft, with a seperate area for nesting.. so 8-10 chickens can be happy.

The Coca Cola bottling company gives their food grade barrels to the Birmingham recycling center.. You can buy them for $15 a piece (Or $70 if you want yours already fully functional, then they come with all the fittings and stuff attached). We're gonna get 2 to put under the gutter