Chickenylady
In the Brooder
- Oct 31, 2018
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Moved the ladies home today!
Got these girls last weekend at my 4-H chicken show and sale (I’m a 4-H agent in North Carolina).
These speckled Sussex ladies have been raised by 4-Hers from chicks since June. They were born about mid June!
No eggs yet but hoping for some soon as they get used to their new digs.
Coop set up is a 10x10 dog kennel topped with wire mesh and covered with a slanted tin roof to aid in drainage or rain and snow. Roosts are tobacco sticks from our old tobacco barns and nesting boxes are buckets.
(Will be adding tarps to two sides to give them a way to get out of the weather and apparently raccoons can pull chickens through wire so )
So far they have learned to use the nipple waterer and are enjoying digging for bugs in the straw!
Got these girls last weekend at my 4-H chicken show and sale (I’m a 4-H agent in North Carolina).
These speckled Sussex ladies have been raised by 4-Hers from chicks since June. They were born about mid June!
No eggs yet but hoping for some soon as they get used to their new digs.
Coop set up is a 10x10 dog kennel topped with wire mesh and covered with a slanted tin roof to aid in drainage or rain and snow. Roosts are tobacco sticks from our old tobacco barns and nesting boxes are buckets.
(Will be adding tarps to two sides to give them a way to get out of the weather and apparently raccoons can pull chickens through wire so )
So far they have learned to use the nipple waterer and are enjoying digging for bugs in the straw!