Arizona Chickens

[igorsMistress]

@BlueBaby Thanks! Yes'm I'm keeping them inside for a few days, then out they go. The door is going to have 2 chicken doors in it. One narrow enough to keep the bigs out and one for the bigs in case we have a broody.

 

[igorsMistress]

That is really going to be nice..

Thanks! Hubs did it all pretty much. I helped staple the low stuff and put the roof on but that's all.

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby Thanks! Yes'm I'm keeping them inside for a few days, then out they go. The door is going to have 2 chicken doors in it. One narrow enough to keep the bigs out and one for the bigs in case we have a broody.

Sound's like a plan!

 

[starri33]

@starri33 I agree that it's a boy above. It also look's to have a double comb on it? What breed is he?

@igorsMistress If Fugly becomes a daddy, should I tell Charley that he's a grandpa?

I hadn't thought about it, But the double comb seems to be a Roo trait, Speed Racer has one, Sir Poops-a-lot has one. Billy Bob their daddy, the one pictured here doesn't. Some recessive gene maybe ? Now to see if the chick I kept from the last hatch is actually a roo and has the double

 

[BlueBaby]

So, since it has warmed up enough to be outdoor's more now, I was wondering if any of you are working on thing's for this year to make improvement's for your flock for this year? For me I will be attaching some of that 1/4' hardware cloth around the bottom of one of my growout pen's. It's the first pen that I put the chick's into when I move them outside, and the bar's on the wire dog crates have too big a gap so that the smallest chick's sometime squeeze out of it. Adding the hardware cloth will keep that from happening.

 

[starri33]

So, since it has warmed up enough to be outdoor's more now, I was wondering if any of you are working on thing's for this year to make improvement's for your flock for this year? For me I will be attaching some of that 1/4' hardware cloth around the bottom of one of my growout pen's. It's the first pen that I put the chick's into when I move them outside, and the bar's on the wire dog crates have too big a gap so that the smallest chick's sometime squeeze out of it. Adding the hardware cloth will keep that from happening.

Trying to figure out what improvements I can make to the old coop to use it as a grow out.. I'm thinking find wood and make the floor completely solid so that the little one's don't fall through the slats on the pallets.

 

[starri33]

Sir Poops a lot is now in the tsc coop

 

[BlueBaby]

Trying to figure out what improvements I can make to the old coop to use it as a grow out.. I'm thinking find wood and make the floor completely solid so that the little one's don't fall through the slats on the pallets.

There are free pallet's that you can find on CL. You could re-purpose them by breaking them down, and then use them to make your floor.

 

[igorsMistress]

So, since it has warmed up enough to be outdoor's more now, I was wondering if any of you are working on thing's for this year to make improvement's for your flock for this year? For me I will be attaching some of that 1/4' hardware cloth around the bottom of one of my growout pen's. It's the first pen that I put the chick's into when I move them outside, and the bar's on the wire dog crates have too big a gap so that the smallest chick's sometime squeeze out of it. Adding the hardware cloth will keep that from happening.

I've already moved the picnic table out to the middle of the yard, moved a roost out under a shade structure and added extra waterers. I added an old gate to a structure and put shade cloth on, everyone seems to like getting on top of there in the evening.

We're going to make the pop door on the coop bigger, Fugly kind of has to squeeze thru it right now. We're removing the loft from the coop and extending the roost and poop board.
By the end of summer we'll be rid of the quail. That'll free up another shade option I can move out for the chickens.

 

[BlueBaby]

I've already moved the picnic table out to the middle of the yard, moved a roost out under a shade structure and added extra waterers. I added an old gate to a structure and put shade cloth on, everyone seems to like getting on top of there in the evening.

We're going to make the pop door on the coop bigger, Fugly kind of has to squeeze thru it right now. We're removing the loft from the coop and extending the roost and poop board.
By the end of summer we'll be rid of the quail. That'll free up another shade option I can move out for the chickens.

Yes, now is the time to prepare with what you will need for them while it's still cool enough with having to do any labor out there. It's a lot easier doing thing's without the sweat running into your eye's.