Dixie Chicks

[BriardChickens]

does it show???

you have to ask that! LOL

don't sell, you'll just want to hatch more next spring!

 

[Ravynscroft]

My chocolate orp is broody again. 2nd time this month. I broke her the first time, this time, not much luck.

Oh and I hatched a black ohiki

I figured I'd let mine go ahead, want to see who will be good mamas...

Jealous!! I wanna black ohiki!!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Poor Alaskan...

 

[hennible]

Psycho broodiness is now officially contagious here, lol...

3rd one to go in the last week...

Mine is on day 11 (I think) and she snatched up a bunch of extra eggs today... Arg! why didn't I make a mark or something on them?

Sam, I'd go with a dirt floor and a just pour a concrete floor if you get out of chickens. Concrete will suck all the ammonia into it. I would also put up partitions already, you do't have to take them into use, you can just keep doors open, but it's a heck of a lot easier to just build them from the get go than to add them later. Plus, having walls that block site lines a bit will keep things calmer in the coop even though the birds would be allowed to move freely between the sections. 

Food for thought for sure... Crap I had it all sorted out in my mind.... Well off to read about the pros and cons of cement...

 

[BriardChickens]

Psycho broodiness is now officially contagious here, lol...

3rd one to go in the last week...

I've got 7 duck eggs she can have... my "broody" isn't sticking to the nest yet.

I did tell DH I need a bigger incubator because everyone sells eggs by the dozen, not by the 7.

 

[minihorse927]

I figured I'd let mine go ahead, want to see who will be good mamas...

Jealous!! I wanna black ohiki!!!

you might get one!

 

[hennible]

I've got 7 duck eggs she can have... my "broody" isn't sticking to the nest yet.

I did tell DH I need a bigger incubator because everyone sells eggs by the dozen, not by the 7. 

Lol
By the 7!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Mine is on day 11 (I think) and she snatched up a bunch of extra eggs today... Arg! why didn't I make a mark or something on them?

My Am is up to 14, had to mark them, lol...

I've got 7 duck eggs she can have... my "broody" isn't sticking to the nest yet.

I did tell DH I need a bigger incubator because everyone sells eggs by the dozen, not by the 7. 

lol... this one is sticking hard... tried to pick her up and I think she brought the eggs up with her!

you might get one!

Keeping fingers crossed! Pulled a stinker call egg last night... trying not to really look yet...

 

[vehve]

Sam, if you can build a earth floor that stays dry (good drainage, and elevation), I'd say that's the easier route to take. Pouring the floor for a big coop is costly, and labor intensive, plus it takes a couple of weeks for it to dry. You'd need about 8" of concrete probably, so for a 200 square foot coop that's about 7-8 (metric) tons of concrete. Not very cheap, the best way to have it delivered would be with one of those cement trucks.

 

[minihorse927]