California - Northern

[chickee]

More Lewey photos

Jason. He is beautiful!!!

Makes me want to get another one!

 

[Nikon]

We are still waiting for the other 4 pullets to lay. The Brahma and OE are giving us eggs pretty consistantly. Maybe 2-3 days in a row than 1 day off then back to 2-3 days of eggs again.

Still trying to re-home Speckles the OE rooster. Poor Ellie the EE is getting chased way too much.

 

[Nikon]

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Oh my gosh! Pretty kitty! I didn't know you do photography. Nice!

 

[Ali707]

i've been impressed by using deep litter -- started with shavings on top of dirt, and the chickens' henhouses are built up above the floor of the run, so periodically just sweep all the shavings (and now pine pellets) down onto the run floor on top of whatever's already there. occasionally add dead leaves, or grass straw after the weed-whackers came through in summer, or weeds i've pulled, or whatever. the chickens scratch through it all & keep it constantly turned over (esp. when they're locked up all the time, like now!), and it really has zero smell when its working properly. i took a bunch out in winter to use to mulch my fruit tree saplings, but otherwise, i've not cleaned it out since i started a year ago (this is in the main coop, the other two pens have just started this summer). it's nice and springy to walk on, and they've been excavating way down through the layers lately to get at the bugs that live down in the compost -- in places its about a foot thick at least.

no work, and no smell -- my kind of system.

Hmmmmm well these guys are going to be on concrete in the main part of the run as soon as I move, do you still think it will compost as well if I were to try that on concrete and not dirt? It also shouldn't get very wet as it is going to be a covered patio I am enclosing......

 

[Ali707]

Those are great pictures Jason! He looks so CUTE! I want to squish him!

 

[lawatt]

Hmmmmm well these guys are going to be on concrete in the main part of the run as soon as I move, do you still think it will compost as well if I were to try that on concrete and not dirt? It also shouldn't get very wet as it is going to be a covered patio I am enclosing......

I'm not sure about how well it works on concrete, i suppose if it is deep enough? there's a deep litter thread you might be able to go back through to find out...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/70/deep-litter-method

 

[Hangtown Farms]

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thanks. nope not me lol. My wife does. Mine are the strange sideways camera phone pictures lol

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Jason. He is beautiful!!!

Makes me want to get another one!

Those are great pictures Jason! He looks so CUTE! I want to squish him!

thanks he is super sweet but very much a Bengal. he is in the shower and up at the highest points of the house while whinning away lol.

 

[lizanne]

Do any of you guys raise Salmon Favorolles? I figured that with having a Salmon Favorolle roo, it might be fun to have a couple of SF pullets for him.

 

[ronott1]

Do any of you guys raise Salmon Favorolles? I figured that with having a Salmon Favorolle roo, it might be fun to have a couple of SF pullets for him.

Check with Papa Brooder.