All that's missing are the chicks! PICS!

[cphilip]

I was almost like you, at least I fully planned too do it that way... but I ran into some really nice birds two days before I picked up the coop. I couldn't pass them up as they were exactly what I was looking for, of superior condition and color to anything else I had seen and if I didn't go look and see right then, they would be picked over. I wanted to chose the best of the batch so I gathered up my Crate and shot down there anyway. Was first to see them and got to chose through 25 of them to get my 7 birds. As it turned out all the rest of the birds I didn't chose were sold to the next folks who came to look at them.

I ended up keeping them the two days between in an older Dog Pen I had. Messy but very temporary and no worse for the wear.

Nice big set up you got there.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

what type of chicks are you getting? I am asking because more than you think are GREAT flyers and will fly right out of there (mine did it today; I put them in as the new coop was almost finished and one immediately flew to the top of the 5' run wall. also another reason for a top is all those wild birds that WON'T eat your chickens, will happily gobble up their food!

 

[klevesque]

I am getting (5 of each):

Buff Orpington
Barred Rock
Austalorp
Red Sex Link
Rhode Island Red

 

[Enjaytoo]

Great job, I too am impressed you made the coop first!

 

[newchickmom]

My husband kept procrastinating starting the new coop, SOooo

I ordered 25 chicks (in March) then he had to get the new coop done because all the chickens won't fit in the old coop.

It's not quite finished yet, so the younger girls (about 3 of them) that have started laying, will go to the old coop and use those nests. The big girls don't mind too much.

 

[klevesque]

newchickmom: Great minds think alike! My hubby has tons of projects that he has started and then abandoned. SOOO....I ordered the chicks and told him that he had until Sept 21 to get it done unless he wanted 25 chicks to live in the house with us. He started the coop in July and just finished yesterday (9/20).

 

[2txmedics]

Yes!! your suppose to built a coop FIRST, and THEN GET CHICKENS...but heck, why follow that rule!!! Im now 2 coops BEHIND schedule!!!

 

[pseudoyams]

Im with you on this! I have my coop built now (mostly)...chicks wont be here until mid-Oct!

 

[cmjust0]

I knew a family member was hatching out chicks for us, but I didn't expect the phone call quite as quickly as I got it.. So, step one was a big brooder box -- after the chicks arrived! Got that done, and started thinking about the coop.

Thought WAY too long...chicks had pretty well outgrown the big (2'x6'!) brooder by the time I was able to move them out to the coop, which also took too long to build.

Just a while back, I started finding eggs in the floor of the coop much earlier than I'd expected.. So, we just installed the nest box array through the wall yesterday...I was smart enough to have framed for it already, but too whooped to build it and put it in back when the coop was finished.

The good news is that if and when these chickens go down the road (either to freezer camp or to someone else's place) in a few years, I'm all set up with a nice big brooder to start chicks and a really nice coop to move them to.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Nice coop!!!