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[zooweemama]

Zooweemama

Funny you should ask about Bully Sticks. I had never heard of them before, but was using this box for my Leghorn pullet who spent a week in reeducation camp because she was, well, a big bully! She slept in there and laid eggs. Solitary confinement worked. She's back with the rest of the girls and things are much calmer now.

Oh, the box came from Costco.


Big Bad Biscuit the Bully

LOL chicken prison!

 

[waititout]

Zooweemama

Funny you should ask about Bully Sticks. I had never heard of them before, but was using this box for my Leghorn pullet who spent a week in reeducation camp because she was, well, a big bully!  She slept in there and laid eggs. Solitary confinement worked. She's back with the rest of the girls and things are much calmer now.

Oh, the box came from Costco.


Big Bad Biscuit the Bully

Glad to hear that it worked!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Busted!

Zooweemama

Funny you should ask about Bully Sticks. I had never heard of them before, but was using this box for my Leghorn pullet who spent a week in reeducation camp because she was, well, a big bully! She slept in there and laid eggs. Solitary confinement worked. She's back with the rest of the girls and things are much calmer now.

Oh, the box came from Costco.


Big Bad Biscuit the Bully

 

[Happy Chooks]

Amy - they should be very close to the same color, though I've never had wyandottes

Capayvalley - better your coop leaking than your house. Yup, I have a house leak - get to call the roofer when this storm is over. I hate my lift up nest box on my small coop. I much rather have a walk in coop and collect my eggs. It's nice in winter too - gets you out of the rain.

 

[Miss Molly]

We lost the tiny runt duckling last night. All the rest are doing great. They vary in ages from days old to weeks old. I separated them last night. The brooders are staying drier now haha!

So sorry Amy Beth.....

 

[Miss Molly]

This is yesterday evening. I hope we see some more skies like this soon.

WOW, this is a feel good picture for sure...love it!

 

[Miss Molly]

Are Wyandotte eggs the same color as Orpington eggs? I find it extremely odd that my Wyandotte hen has never laid an egg for me. Since my Orps are young pullets and laying small eggs- if the Wyandotte eggs are the same color as Orp eggs- then it's possible she is laying. But if not...then I don't know what's up. The breeder had said she was about a year old and she was molting in August when I got her. Nothing would be wrong with her right? She acts normal. 

They are similar in color....

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Beautiful rainbow pic and really cute puppy pics. The one of Gracie teaching Katie how to track is heartwarming.

Overall, we are handling the rain very well here. I do have one issue- the nestboxes leak a little. These are the standard type, row nestboxes that you can open the lid from the outside. The rain leaks through where they are attached to the coop wall, between the hinges.

My husband says that he can't put flashing or sealer on there because then the lid won't open.

This type of nest box is so common. There must be an easy fix for this. Anybody know how to keep the rain out and still be able to open the lid?

I don't remember how her box is situated but we put a gutter on the roof above so the water doesn't leak down but ours is only about a foot below the slanted roof.

Zooweemama

Funny you should ask about Bully Sticks. I had never heard of them before, but was using this box for my Leghorn pullet who spent a week in reeducation camp because she was, well, a big bully! She slept in there and laid eggs. Solitary confinement worked. She's back with the rest of the girls and things are much calmer now.

Oh, the box came from Costco.


Big Bad Biscuit the Bully

Amy - they should be very close to the same color, though I've never had wyandottes

Capayvalley - better your coop leaking than your house. Yup, I have a house leak - get to call the roofer when this storm is over. I hate my lift up nest box on my small coop. I much rather have a walk in coop and collect my eggs. It's nice in winter too - gets you out of the rain.

We put a new roof on last year but I sure do remember a leaking roof...of course over the hardwood floors instead of the tile.

We have an exterior nesting box on one of our coops. I actually cut the front on that coop so I could get inside for cleaning, it just had a small chicken door so you had to clean through the boxes. Then we added a walk-in run, then enclosed the other end of that to make another coop on the other end and covered the whole thing so now it's all walk-in with a coop on both ends and sometimes I just gather eggs from inside because the top on the exterior boxes can be kind of heavy to lift. Our Polish coop is a converted storage shed with nesting boxes inside. Easy to gather eggs in there. I use the external if I don't want to have to go in the coop.

 

[MonsterClucker]

Those little germ carriers...and then they don't even seem to get sick themselves, just bring it home and infect the house! Hope you feel better soon, you know that chicken soup really does help with a cold! Sorry about your girl, must have been very disappointing.
I love my ladder roost. Everyone is much happier then trying to all get on the same one and I also use the full 2x4, less falling off when someones trying to find a spot.

I love frogs too! We have all kinds around here but I have to say, the bullfrogs are my favorite even though they scare me when I see them jump when I'm walking in the dark.

I'd ask the people on CL to send a pic of the actual coop before I drove over to see it.

Just beautiful!
I think they should go back in by now. My older roos don't normally try to breed a pullet until they're big enough....the JR cockerels....they try to mount anything the moves! Sorry about your little duckling too.

I'm not allergic to the pine shavings (thankfully since I LOVE the smell of new shavings), but I do get a little itchy rash on my arms from hay (we have horses so I don't have any choice but to handle it) and I get the same rash when I dig through the tomato plants. Mine goes away when I wash my arms off but since yours is airborne maybe you could wear one of those paper masks while you do chicken chores. May just be enough to stop you from getting the symptoms.

Hey Pam. I built a ladder roost today! It added some roost space in the coop. Im gonna build a few more tomorrow if the weather permits me to.
I did get that coop today. Its not as nice as I thought it would be. But I'm desperate right now until my other 2 coops get built th
s week.

Beautiful rainbow pic and really cute puppy pics. The one of Gracie teaching Katie how to track is heartwarming.

Overall, we are handling the rain very well here. I do have one issue- the nestboxes leak a little. These are the standard type, row nestboxes that you can open the lid from the outside. The rain leaks through where they are attached to the coop wall, between the hinges.

My husband says that he can't put flashing or sealer on there because then the lid won't open.

This type of nest box is so common. There must be an easy fix for this. Anybody know how to keep the rain out and still be able to open the lid?

My nestboxes leak too! I need to fix them.

 

[MonsterClucker]

Beautiful.  I'm pondering how you don't lose them to hawks though - all those white targets.

Oh I have! This year total we lost 10 Cornish x and 1 Turkey. I've since hung up fake owls in a few places and out CD's facing upward toward the sky. I haven't had any losses since I put up those deterrents.

There are some new hawk flying around here lately, hopefully their mama told them not to mess around over here!