have 2 chickens in boulder county. Need a coop asap. Anyone have any advice or materials? I'm goinna go pick some free wood up tomorrow in erie so hopefully i can build em something simple.
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Here you go. This was the best article, he writes really well and explains why he's doing what he's doing.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-to-incubate-hatch-eggs-using-the-dry-incubation-method
This is a great article, but keep in mind he is incubating in VA or West VA, so his humidity will be higher than ours here in Colorado. Just a thought.......... Also, I think this is why some people are adding a humidifier to the room where their incubator is, makes total sense.
Thank you! I think Mo is going to be able to add a Delaware to her Meyer order for me. But if that falls thru, I'll keep you in mind. Where are you?
Colorado peeps! Check out what the Man did for the hens today:
diagonal roosts for the warm weather! and i just added that covered litter box and i salted it with a grocery egg and they're laying there reliably! The boombox we play talk radio from all day aimed out to the forest to hopefully deter normally-nocturnal-but-hungry-so-hunting-in-the-daytime predators.
Where ELSE can I talk about this but Backyard Chickens?????
55 degrees today. I never wanted nice weather, i thrive in rainy weather, I'm irish and I blame that. NOW, after the floods, I want only perfect weather.
it's been grand recently.
marcia in pinewood springs
have 2 chickens in boulder county. Need a coop asap. Anyone have any advice or materials? I'm goinna go pick some free wood up tomorrow in erie so hopefully i can build em something simple.
This one didn't come with a flapping door and I was worried about the white color since I've read they like dark. But they've BEEN laying in light places, just not where I want them to...like underneath the coop in the back corner (which I suppose is darkISH) where I have to belly crawl thru straw to get them, top shelf of the coop, a bed behind the straw.... Then I thought I could spray paint the lid black, but before I decided to do that, I've found eggs in there every day. We only get 2 a day from the 5 of them right now, occas three. And I haven't found an outside-the-run/coop laying place, so I think they're all laying inside. And I suspect it's the same 2 or 3...with the longer days and warmer weather and me not chasing them down every few days to vaseline their legs, we'll see if production picks up!I love it! Did you remove the little flapping door from the litter box, or leave it?
Thank you! I hope they'll take advantage of them when it's so blasted hot this summer. I'm always amazed how hot it gets here at 7000 feet.That is rocking! Your chooks should love it. How bout a wee bit of the Irish weather coming in tonight with rain and 85mph gusts.really big sigh.........