BYC Café

[MysteryChicken]

Caught up with you all.

 

[MysteryChicken]

She's a good looking hen.

Thanks. She's been a great girl. I'll miss her when she passes away. Her old age is catching up with her.

 

[ValerieJ]

Does anyone know @KingOfFools? Know what happened to him? Looks to me like he started this thread in 2015 and left in 2015.

 

[bruceha2000]

Because she went broody in the layers nest boxes and I wanted her on the ground. So that's were I set her up and gave her eggs to set.

I've not had hens hatch eggs, no rooster here. But I have had broodies raise chicks I got from Meyer. I let them park in the regular nests until they are really comatose then put the brooder piece in the corner of the coop and move the hen there. The top is usually covered with a wire top and a board across it to the hole into the community nest box. They have their own door to the barn alley so the other hens can't get in the brooder area though when I open that door to let the hen and chicks go walkabout the other hens can sneak in and eat the chick starter feed.

 

[DobieLover]

I've not had hens hatch eggs, no rooster here. But I have had broodies raise chicks I got from Meyer. I let them park in the regular nests until they are really comatose then put the brooder piece in the corner of the coop and move the hen there. The top is usually covered with a wire top and a board across it to the hole into the community nest box. They have their own door to the barn alley so the other hens can't get in the brooder area though when I open that door to let the hen and chicks go walkabout the other hens can sneak in and eat the chick starter feed.

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I put Barb in the built-in brooder in my coop. It has a run on it too.

 

[Building Bridges]

I put Barb in the built-in brooder in my coop. It has a run on it too.
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Tonya that's such a nice set up. What is the roof over the brooder's run....transparent? Such great light in that space. I really like that.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I set up an ad, advertising silkie chicks I'll be selling in the spring if anybody wants to check it out?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Did you put on your state thread ?

 

[DobieLover]

Tonya that's such a nice set up. What is the roof over the brooder's run....transparent? Such great light in that space. I really like that.

Polycarbonate. You can click on the My Coop link to see how I built it.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Did you put on your state thread ?

Yes, in the title.