California - Northern

[caychris]

Im trying to dimension a new coop/breeding pen here are the rough cut plans with a solid back wall (maybe a flip door to grab the poop boxes)

Im thinking of making it about 3.5 feet on the sides and just under 4 feet wide and 4 feet tall at the front. the roosts will be up high and about 8-10 inches from the walls.

How many chickens do you think I could comfortably house in here. I will have a covered run attached but Im just looking to house a roo and up to 5 hens. The breeds Im considering doing this for are Pita Pinta, Cream Legbar and possibly Barred hollands in the future.

Doors are hinged flip doors.

The vent will just be wire opening that I can cover (vent door) in winter or at night.

Floor Plan



Front View



Sides

 

[caychris]

HELP

I think I have a problem. The two lovely birds I got from Kim do not seem to be interested in eating the pellets the rest of the birds eat.

The attack the small amount of scratch grain I gave them they have dug up the small coop run looking for bugs (i assume) and the love the vegetable scraps we have given then but they do not touch the pellets.

I made a mash out of the pellets and sprinkled a few in. They ate some of the mash but left the pellets.

Do you think crumbles might go better?

 

[tj74roberts]

Does anyone know of any breeders of D'anvers that will be at the PPBA show in Modesto? I have a few 1st time 4-Her's looking for bantams that are not feather footed. They all LOVE the D'uccle Millie Fleur but they have feathered feet. We are also open to suggestions from more experienced showman and or keepers of bantams. Show quality is a must and pullets only as they all live in town. Thanks so much.

 

[fowlman01]

Does anyone know of any breeders of D'anvers that will be at the PPBA show in Modesto? I have a few 1st time 4-Her's looking for bantams that are not feather footed. They all LOVE the D'uccle Millie Fleur but they have feathered feet. We are also open to suggestions from more experienced showman and or keepers of bantams. Show quality is a must and pullets only as they all live in town. Thanks so much.:yiipchick

Amanda Clark Stallings. She will be there. She is an ABA judge and is on Facebook.

Walt

 

[tj74roberts]

Amanda Clark Stallings. She will be there. She is an ABA judge and is on Facebook.

Walt

Thanks Walt! I'll look her up on FB, and see what she has available. Do you know where she's from by chance?

 

[tj74roberts]

@fowlman01 , I cannot find her on FB.

 

[fowlman01]

@fowlman01
, I cannot find her on FB. 

I don't have her contact info. Try the American Poultry Association Web page under judges.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I did see the eggs he has posted, but it's too far for me to drive.  If someone closer to me where headed that way I would try to get them, but alas...that is not likely.  I may try again when he restocks his bubble wrap. 

The website fro Urch that I was this one... http://standardbreedpoultry.com/breeder/Duane UrchUrch-Turnland Poultry/190

There not laying well yet but the black penedesenca are. I do ship eggs though and they should start up soon

 

[Sylvester017]

They find A I somewhere every year. Keep your birds away from wild waterfowl.

Walt

Great, two wild Mallards were eating with mine today, Sigh...

-Kathy

Hi Walt!

I try to keep mine away from all wild birds all year around. Leg mites, other parasites, diseases, who needs them. I'm confining them because the darn local geese seem to migrate between the elementary school behind me and the junior high at the end of the block. I have had no success in persuading them to wear diapers while flying over my yard. B^(

It is as unpleasant in your hair as seagull flops.

Poultry quarantine lifted in SE Washington

By Associated Press Jan 27, 2015
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington Agriculture Department has lifted a quarantine that restricted the movement of eggs, poultry and poultry products in parts of southeast Washington after avian flu was found in two Benton County backyard flocks in December.

The department said Tuesday that the outbreak doesn't appear to have spread beyond those two sites. The quarantine covered parts of Benton and Franklin counties.

Department spokesman Hector Castro says veterinarians with the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture visited about 1,800 sites and tested samples from birds at more than 70 locations. All were negative for avian flu.

A second quarantine remains in effect in parts of Clallam County, where a flock was confirmed to be infected in mid-January. The Peninsula Daily News quotes Castro as saying that testing there is expected to continue into the near future, but inspectors "are close to wrapping up."

None of the avian viruses detected in Washington have been associated with human illnesses and there is no immediate public health concern.

The virus has not been found in any commercial poultry operations in Washington.

Avian flu does not affect poultry meat or egg products.

The threat of AI in the North this time of year is probably slim since the water fowl have migrated South (our neck of the woods in SoCA). However benign AI is to humans my concern is for our flock and how deadly it is to them. Is it only water fowl that's spreading AI or has it been found to be traveling via Hawks, Sparrows, Finches, Doves, Phoebes, Hummies, etc, as well? There is absolutely no way to completely net our property from those little pests or the visiting Cooper's Hawks. We use treadle feeders for the chickens and nipple waterers to eliminate the wild birds from mooching the chicken's food but the pesky little wild bird species just keep coming into the yard and dropping their parasitic little poops everywhere! The chickens will chase off the timid Doves but Sparrows are the worst aggressors of all our visiting wildlife birds. Eliminating available chicken feed source has lowered frequent visits but the darn things still come in swarms. They're like locusts!

 

[AmyPaperlady]

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I know she could, but I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than have my hopes crushed

I got to be pleasantly surprised

Cookie was in the gap between the garage and the coop--not sure exactly how wide that is, but it's between 12 and 18 inches. Maybe less. I'm pretty sure she'd been there since Saturday--she's very thin, though her face and comb are still bright red. One of her legs appears useless--she's holding it up off the ground when she stands and hops around, and it's curled when we hold her. I don't see any marks on her leg, except some scuffing on the back just over her foot--if it were my leg, I'd say just above where my achilles tendon attaches to my calf muscle (yes, I know that, anatomically, I'm off by a whole section of leg, but in relation to her foot, that's where the scuffed scales are). Manipulating her toes and leg, she doesn't react like it hurts, though the useless leg moves a lot easier than the one she's using, which she would not let me move (I didn't want to force it, and risk hurting her good leg). She devoured 2 raw eggs (one of which she'd laid while she was missing), a handful of BOSS, a handful of feed, and drank some water, so I don't have to worry about her not eating!

I've got her in the getting-to-know-you/broody-and-chicks pen inside the coop--she was at the bottom of the pecking order before she disappeared for half a week, so I didn't think putting her fully with the others would be a good idea.