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By those standards I would be pushing it with 5 so I will aim for 4, and maybe a bantam ...or an additionLol. The run is 75sq ft so plenty of extra room there, thankfully. Thank you so much for your response. The breeder flaked on me and now I'm searching for my next two before it's too late! Thankfully PayPal will refund us, but I'm very disappointed since I was looking forward to the breeds I picked out. All is good, I'm sure I'll love whatever I get!!
Sweet PDZ is a natural mineral that has been used for decades in horse stalls to soak up the strong ammonia they produce. Recently it's gained favor in the chicken world. It takes away all odor. Now I only have two birds but there is zero odor... Even after two days of no scooping. It dries the droppings and then you just scoop them up like cat litter. I made the mistake of making it 4 inches deep (went by the many forums I was reading). It didn't pack down quickly enough (it's like flour)and the birds feet just sank in. They freaked!! I removed all but 1.5 inches and now it's nice and packed. They still are wary of it but this morning I saw chicken tracks all over it, so they did come down from the roost. Now if they would only come out, theyre still sitting on that roost and purring and cooing and chirping and acting like pigeons. They'll have to come out some time!
The coop and run are complete other than the nesting box. The shed still need the flooring, four and window. Hubby took my drawings and ideas I got from Pinterest and designed it for our use. It had to have a clean look because of where we live, but I wanted it to be funky! Lol. The color is proper purple from Home Depot and the cream color is lemon balm. It's supposed to resemble an eggplant, inside and out. Because, well, it's our egg plant.
If needed you can always add another coop at the other end of the run. Eventually we might end up adding another one. I got bit by the chicken bug. Luckily, I think we're done getting chicks year after our last run to the feed store. We shouldn't have gotten more, but my daughter wanted "another robin" after she was killed by a dog. They got light Brahmas in with the last order, and ya can't just get one chick so we got two. Then this spunky chocolate colored chick jumped out of the box, and it was an arucana, so we got 2 of those too. We wanted blue eggs, ok I did, and since we have 2 rooms we were trying to fix the hen to roo ratio some. I have seen some smaller hatcherys in Florida with chicks on craigslist, but you would want to drive there for sure.
