California-Southern

[estamets]

CHICKEN MEET-UPS are WAAAY MORE important than weddings and Anniversaries...right hosspak??

There are also meat-ups in San Diego so there is NEVER a shortage of them. .just in the summer months when it is too FRIGGIN hot to move!

You are on my LIST now..so no worries...

I want to be on your list!

 

[sol2go]

Thank you for the info Sylvester and Cali. I wish I had read your reply, Sylvester, before I went to the breeder! I ended up with a silkie and 2 mini Cochins and a brahma....all females. I wanted the brahma for the larger eggs but chose one of the smaller ones they had. The 3 bantams are 5 weeks old, the brahma is supposed to be 7 weeks but looks younger, closer to 5, I would say. I have been getting mixed reviews on the chances this will work out. I'm a newbie and thought I had done a lot of research but the size mix of a flock never came up. I'm already losing sleep over this!

Don't worry, if you have a problem, you'll figure it out. Until then, just enjoy!

 

[SurfCityBumpkin]

Thanks sol2go. I feel like a first time mother- worried about everything!

 

[Camp Julsby]

CHICKEN MEET-UPS are WAAAY MORE important than weddings and Anniversaries...right hosspak??

There are also meat-ups in San Diego so there is NEVER a shortage of them.

.just in the summer months when it is too FRIGGIN hot to move!

You are on my LIST now..so no worries...

LOL. It is one of these Chicken Meet-Ups that got me hooked. We only wanted 5 chickens for eggs. Now we have 25 Large fowl in our layer coop, 7 bantam Cochins, 13 eggs in the bator hatching anytime, and another 2 dozen + eggs to arrive and set later this week. You can say We've gone to the Birds. Just call me a crazy chicken lady.

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

CHICKEN MEET-UPS are WAAAY MORE important than weddings and Anniversaries...right hosspak??

There are also meat-ups in San Diego so there is NEVER a shortage of them. .just in the summer months when it is too FRIGGIN hot to move!

You are on my LIST now..so no worries...

Yay!! Ooh, list! Feeling special now. a

On a side note, we're getting closer to an habitable safe space for the birds. To save $$ and because I have had no luck trolling for free or cheaper roofing materials on CL, we went to a scrap metal yard and bought several panels of sheet aluminum for the roof of the coop/run enclosure. We assembled the roof on the ground and after several difficult attempts (partly due to my lack of height and reach), we managed to get it on top of the structure. We still need to attach and secure it properly, and then finish installing panels on the bottom of the structure. Due to the restrictions on coops for my city, I had to put the coop/run structure on part of the hill in the backyard, so the very bottom of the coop/run has to be done in panels and fitted around concrete pier blocks. Anyways, by this weekend, my pullets finally won't be so crowded in their brooder at night (they free range pretty much from about 5am-8pm right now). The actual coop inside the run will be a continuing work in progress, but at least there will be a large safe structure for them to stay in very very soon.

 

[froggiesheins]

Yay!! Ooh, list! Feeling special now. a

On a side note, we're getting closer to an habitable safe space for the birds. To save $$ and because I have had no luck trolling for free or cheaper roofing materials on CL, we went to a scrap metal yard and bought several panels of sheet aluminum for the roof of the coop/run enclosure. We assembled the roof on the ground and after several difficult attempts (partly due to my lack of height and reach), we managed to get it on top of the structure. We still need to attach and secure it properly, and then finish installing panels on the bottom of the structure. Due to the restrictions on coops for my city, I had to put the coop/run structure on part of the hill in the backyard, so the very bottom of the coop/run has to be done in panels and fitted around concrete pier blocks. Anyways, by this weekend, my pullets finally won't be so crowded in their brooder at night (they free range pretty much from about 5am-8pm right now). The actual coop inside the run will be a continuing work in progress, but at least there will be a large safe structure for them to stay in very very soon.

I hear you on that! I could find for free or cheep, everything but those blasted roof materials too!

 

[froggiesheins]

LOL. It is one of these Chicken Meet-Ups that got me hooked.  We only wanted 5 chickens for eggs. Now we have 25 Large fowl in our layer coop, 7 bantam Cochins, 13 eggs in the bator hatching anytime, and another 2 dozen + eggs to arrive and set later this week. You can say We've gone to the Birds. Just call me a crazy chicken lady.

sucked another peep into the black hole of CHICKENDOM!!!!

 

[froggiesheins]

I want to be on your list!

DONE!

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

I hear you on that! I could find for free or cheep, everything but those blasted roof materials too!

You have pictures of your Koop? I'd love to see them.

Almost all of the wood for my 10' x 5.5' coop/run is from free pallets that we got and disassembled. The human door and the doors for cleaning and egg-gathering are from CL or the Habitat for Humanity Store. From the regular hardware store, I had to buy a six concrete piers and 4 10' posts/beams, metal lathe (cheaper than hardware cloth and even chicken wire), screws, roofing material, some 12' of wood for the roof panel frame, oops paint, silicone caulk and 4" pvc pipe fittings for the feeder. I hope that's it (but I doubt it) for the expenses!

 

[froggiesheins]

You have pictures of your Koop? I'd love to see them.

Almost all of the wood for my 10' x 5.5' coop/run is from free pallets that we got and disassembled. The human door and the doors for cleaning and egg-gathering are from CL or the Habitat for Humanity Store. From the regular hardware store, I had to buy a six concrete piers and 4 10' posts/beams, metal lathe (cheaper than hardware cloth and even chicken wire), screws, roofing material, some 12' of wood for the roof panel frame, oops paint, silicone caulk and 4" pvc pipe fittings for the feeder. I hope that's it (but I doubt it) for the expenses!

Your wish is my command! I kinda got carried away! The gazebo was here in the yard when I moved in, just tweeked it a bit
AWW GEEZ, after posting, I see the pictures are out of order! sorry about that....