California - Northern

[Hen Pecked honey]

Hi

I just moved to Santa Rosa and look forward to setting up my new coop.

Deborah

 

[orrpeople]

Santa Rosa is beautiful! The band I conducted had a competition there - loved the drive through the wine country! Welcome to BYC! Great people and good information!

 

[dewtattoo]

Hi guys. I'm new to the forum, and new to chicken ownership. I live in Modesto with my fiance and her 11-year-old son. We bought our first chicks over the weekend from Atwater Feed. We started with a small clutch of only 4 chicks. I got a Black Australorp, a Speckled Sussex, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a Barred Rock. I also picked up the wood for my coop that I plan to start building this next Saturday.

I just figured I'd say hi. I've been reading through the forums for about a week now, picking up bits of information on raising the chicks and preparing them for coop living. I'm looking forward to the day when we have our first eggs

 

[ronott1]

Hi guys. I'm new to the forum, and new to chicken ownership. I live in Modesto with my fiance and her 11-year-old son. We bought our first chicks over the weekend from Atwater Feed. We started with a small clutch of only 4 chicks. I got a Black Australorp, a Speckled Sussex, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a Barred Rock. I also picked up the wood for my coop that I plan to start building this next Saturday.

I just figured I'd say hi. I've been reading through the forums for about a week now, picking up bits of information on raising the chicks and preparing them for coop living. I'm looking forward to the day when we have our first eggs

That first egg is very special!





Post pictures of both the chicks and the coop progress!

 

[dewtattoo]

Here is a pic of my 4 chicks on their way home from the feed store.


And here is a "before, before, before" pic of my chicken coop. The big storm we had 3 weeks ago knocked down my sister fence so they gave me the wood. I have a woodshop in my garage so I'm going to clean up this old fence wood to use as siding on my chicken coop.

 

[ronott1]

Here is a pic of my 4 chicks on their way home from the feed store.


And here is a "before, before, before" pic of my chicken coop. The big storm we had 3 weeks ago knocked down my sister fence so they gave me the wood. I have a woodshop in my garage so I'm going to clean up this old fence wood to use as siding on my chicken coop.

Nice!

It is great when you can salvage wood for coops.

Make it plenty beg too. We always seem to wind up with more and more chickens!

 

[Sylvester017]

Hi guys. I'm new to the forum, and new to chicken ownership. I live in Modesto with my fiance and her 11-year-old son. We bought our first chicks over the weekend from Atwater Feed. We started with a small clutch of only 4 chicks. I got a Black Australorp, a Speckled Sussex, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a Barred Rock. I also picked up the wood for my coop that I plan to start building this next Saturday.

I just figured I'd say hi. I've been reading through the forums for about a week now, picking up bits of information on raising the chicks and preparing them for coop living. I'm looking forward to the day when we have our first eggs

Congratulations on chickeneering!

Build FAST! Chicks at 2 months old are pretty big already -- about 3/4 their growth already.

A minimum formula for coops is to have 1-sq-ft per each chicken open ventilation near the roofline, 4-sq-ft per each chicken coop floor space, and 10-sq-ft per each chicken open run/pen space - these are minimum for chickens' health and well-being.

Make a door big enough to enter the coop for cleaning. Our first coop was only 41/2 feet tall and hard to hunch over to clean it.

So glad to hear you're having chickens. You have a nice assortment of equal-sized breeds and hold-your-own temperaments. Docile breeds would be too timid in your egg-laying group. I think you made good choices - they are all brown egg-layers but after a few times of collecting eggs you can figure which hen layed which egg as shapes and color-shading will be a bit different w/ each hen.

You must post pics of the chicks and your coop development and first eggs! There's a BYC thread called "post your chicken coop pictures here" where you can share your coop build.

 

[orrpeople]

Nice!

It is great when you can salvage wood for coops.

Make it plenty beg too. We always seem to wind up with more and more chickens!

"Salvage wood for coops" - I agree!! The majority of mine were made from theatrical set pieces (flats and platforms, benches, etc) I designed from when I ran a performing arts program - hence the silliness I get into when I build one (this is one I call the "grow out chalet"!)

 

[SpringPeeper]

Hi guys. I'm new to the forum, and new to chicken ownership. I live in Modesto with my fiance and her 11-year-old son. We bought our first chicks over the weekend from Atwater Feed. We started with a small clutch of only 4 chicks. I got a Black Australorp, a Speckled Sussex, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a Barred Rock. I also picked up the wood for my coop that I plan to start building this next Saturday.

I just figured I'd say hi. I've been reading through the forums for about a week now, picking up bits of information on raising the chicks and preparing them for coop living. I'm looking forward to the day when we have our first eggs

Welcome to chickens! Black Australorps are some of the absolute best chickens around, in my opinion, and are gorgeous with thier sheen-covered black plumage.

 

[ronott1]

"Salvage wood for coops" - I agree!! The majority of mine were made from theatrical set pieces (flats and platforms, benches, etc) I designed from when I ran a performing arts program - hence the silliness I get into when I build one (this is one I call the "grow out chalet"!)

I love the coop!