Chicks never going outside!

[tired401]

My husband started the chicks coop weeks ago, but we only have the frame built because it rains every Sunday and during the week when he is off. He works 72 hours a week and you would think mother nature could give him a break. The chicks are now 6 and 8 weeks old and I am cleaning every day their temp home in the laundry room and constantly changing water. Love my husband who said not to worry he could build the coop in a couple days and went and got the chicks before starting the coop. He did get the framing done in a day and would mostly likely have the outside done in another day. Then finish in the next day, but the weather is not on his side.
I have had to separate the chicks into more containers to avoid over crowding and even had to chase one polish that seems to like to work himself out of the wiring at the top of the container a couple of times. Have considered getting rid of husband or the chicks a couple of time, but afraid everyone is attached to them both. Praying for sunshine this weekend.

 

[suzeqf]

i feel your pain we can't get mother nature to cooperate with us either my oldest ones are almost 8 weeks old and need a coop ina bad way

 

[flowergirl60]

I really hope the weather clears up for you. I was in the same boat last Feb. It can be very frustrating. Hope you get to work on your coop soon and get chickies out there.

 

[AlienChick]

You'll get your sunshine, and you'll be able to keep the husband and the chicks!

We had the same problem. We were able to mostly finish the coop and I went out in the rain adorned with raingear to do some finishing touches.

Our coop is still not 100% finished, but it's finished to the point where the chicks have moved in and are enjoying it.

 

[suzeqf]

we've got 90% of the materials and have got the blocks in place and that was done in between thunderstorms, i don't mind working in a light spring rain but what we've had has been 20 plus winds and massive thunderstorms and have prob gotten 10-15 inches of rain since march and we don't normally get that much that quick and my county and the surrounding onces have been declared disaster areas and we've been under some type of watch for the last 2 weeks

 

[jgervais]

we're running into the same problem! and omg the dust! i cant handle the dust in the house from the chickens anymore!!! Weve built as far as we can in the garage, but just waiting for the rain to letup in Michigan now so we can finish the project!
We were at my moms over easter and used the nice days there to build her the same coop:
http://simplelifeainteasy.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-coop-down-one-more-to-go.html

Its almost torture knowing what a nice coop I could have seeing hers complete.....
Oh well, I guess all this rain means pretty grass :-/

 

[suzeqf]

the only bright spot i have is that my chicks aren't in the house they are in the shop but my adventuresome young roos have decided they are not content to just hang out on the edge of their brooder/apartment complex like the girls are they feel the need to live on the wild side and to walk on the edges of the boxes that connect their apartment building to the younger ones and they end up getting spooked and falling off and getting wedge between the wall and boxes

 

[zengrrl]

We're in the same boat! These chicks REALLY need a place of their own!

Between the awful weather and my husbands job trying to put him into an early grave our huge project is NEVER going to get done. Blah

 

[sjmarshall87]

Same issue here.. But mine have at least another 2 wks before they are fully feathered.. But watching that calender mark away.. nervewracking