Arizona Chickens

[igorsMistress]

@Geranium

I do have screens on the front of my coop and in winter I have solid panels to put on. Maybe they don't need it as @FeatherPugs says, but I add them. When the wind blows at night and it's freezing I feel better anyway

 

[Geranium]

@FeatherPugs that's a good idea! I'll stick a board in there across the cinder blocks for them to check out.

They didn't know what to do at bedtime tonight! They've always slept in their brooder box with their brooder plate but tonight they're in the coop! They have their brooder plate and a huddle box but they were just pacing around screaming. I had to go in and stick them in the box and under the brooder plate. Agatha ended up under the brooder plate and everyone else ended up in the box. I'll go back out in a couple hours to make sure everyone is still quiet and warm. Poor girls.

 

[Geranium]

@FeatherPugs the coop is in a corner of the yard so it's pretty sheltered. Nice to know I might not have to close it up much. The chickens will have the option of roosting towards the back of the coop where it's more sheltered, or towards the front near the screen wall where it will be cooler.

 

[nicollee]

The chicken coop now contains chickens!! I think they approve. And I really like having a space where I can sit with them. I think they like that, too, because they were all piling up on my legs. The whole front is open wire, which we'll cover once winter comes.

Congratulations on the new coop, babies do need to be shown where to sleep in a new area. If they had a broody, she would show them, so you are it....

@igorsMistress
I also try to block the wind, because it makes me feel better.

 

[meetthebubus]

@FeatherPugs that's a good idea! I'll stick a board in there across the cinder blocks for them to check out.

They didn't know what to do at bedtime tonight! They've always slept in their brooder box with their brooder plate but tonight they're in the coop! They have their brooder plate and a huddle box but they were just pacing around screaming. I had to go in and stick them in the box and under the brooder plate. Agatha ended up under the brooder plate and everyone else ended up in the box. I'll go back out in a couple hours to make sure everyone is still quiet and warm. Poor girls.

Like @nicollee they will need you, just like you did. For awhile they will do this, even my baby that goes next to roost by mama still chirps until its completely dark. My ee's would cry and cry at roost time and try to roost on me but they'll get use to it it may take several days or weeks but they'll love it outside

 

[meetthebubus]

Cheetah update:
I got more supplies, gave her a sit bath, cut some feathers around vent, pushed it back in used hydrocortisone, then wrapped the hernia with vet wrap. She went after that ordeal to lay an egg (poor baby) and ate and tried to bathe but it was then roost time. At first the wrap stayed in place keeping her hernia in but it came out bc she tugged at the wrap so I'll re wrap it tomorrow and try to keep her enclosed in the mansion to rest. I'm worried about her, but she is active, and eating so I'm hoping she is ok

Her personality is calm, lies low, in the background, good layer, was the first to cuddle as a baby chick.....

 

[Geranium]

I went out to check on them and Agatha, the one that had been under the brooder plate, was behind the box, and everyone else was in the box. I stuck her in the box with everyone else. I'll check on them one more time before I go to bed. I thought they would know to go to their brooder plate since that's what they've always done, but I guess the big, new environment threw them off.

 

[Michelle Guynn]

My what a chatty group. Sitting on the runway in Harrisburg because there is fog in Philadelphia. I’m just ready to get home.

 

[igorsMistress]

My what a chatty group. Sitting on the runway in Harrisburg because there is fog in Philadelphia. I’m just ready to get home.

Hope you're headed home and have a safe flight. Great weather here for your return

 

[FeatherPugs]

@igorsMistress and @meetthebubus I too would have a something (and I have an idea to run by my DH!!) but right now I have the tarp to keep the wind/rain out. It works just fine. I didn't use it much until this year! Now I can button down the coops in nothing flat with the extra big winds and rains we've had!! Wonder how @Diannastarr is doing? Hope she is healed and moving forward. @Geranium I think it took a week for my "new" girls to learn to roost when they moved into their grow out pen. Some less and some more but it was a daily, go out and put them on the roost every night and when they were there, they were happy as clams.