Dixie Chicks

[AL bamadude]

lol... hey, your wayward stepson is going to his new home next week... super glad that she wants him...

I read that. He will be happy with all those ladies that Lisa has

 

[AL bamadude]

I know a guy who also has a mobike home

 

[Beer can]

Mobile home;

 

[AL bamadude]

Love love love it

 

[Outpost JWB]

Thanks.
I have been building 3' x 7' x 4' tall pens out of 2x4s and OSB board. The 3x7 works well because I use a 4x8 sheet as the roof. I jigsaw out windows and staple hardware cloth for ventilation.
I have 3 of these connected to a 20x20 run.
I alternate which pens get to go out into the run each day.

One thing I am worried about is "Putting all of my eggs in one basket" so to speak....do you have back up breeders? Where do you house them? Predators seem to have a bullseye on my chickens. To help explain it better, here are the breeds I need to separate:

Speckled Sussex- 1 rooster, 11 pullets
Black & Blue Copper French Marans- 2 cockerels, 4-5 hens
Cuckoo Marans- 2 roosters, 1 hen (I'll also have Easter Eggers and Olive Eggers in the pen-approx 10 more pullets/hens.)
Black Jersey Giant- 1 cockerel, 12 pullets/hens
Crested Cream Legbar- 1 rooster, 4 pullets

 

[AL bamadude]

One thing I am worried about is "Putting all of my eggs in one basket" so to speak....do you have back up breeders? Where do you house them? Predators seem to have a bullseye on my chickens. To help explain it better, here are the breeds I need to separate:

Speckled Sussex- 1 rooster, 11 pullets
Black & Blue Copper French Marans- 2 cockerels, 4-5 hens
Cuckoo Marans- 2 roosters, 1 hen (I'll also have Easter Eggers and Olive Eggers in the pen-approx 10 more pullets/hens.)
Black Jersey Giant- 1 cockerel, 12 pullets/hens
Crested Cream Legbar- 1 rooster, 4 pullets

U are gonna need a bigger boat.
Let me ponder

 

[Outpost JWB]

I know!! I was up to 197 chickens at one point. Now I'm down to about 90. Maybe build another people house & turn my double wide trailer into a coop! (Don't tell DH)!

 

[AL bamadude]

How big is your plot out p triple og?

 

[Alaskan]

One thing I am worried about is "Putting all of my eggs in one basket" so to speak....do you have back up breeders? Where do you house them? Predators seem to have a bullseye on my chickens. To help explain it better, here are the breeds I need to separate:

Speckled Sussex- 1 rooster, 11 pullets
Black & Blue Copper French Marans- 2 cockerels, 4-5 hens
Cuckoo Marans- 2 roosters, 1 hen (I'll also have Easter Eggers and Olive Eggers in the pen-approx 10 more pullets/hens.)
Black Jersey Giant- 1 cockerel, 12 pullets/hens
Crested Cream Legbar- 1 rooster, 4 pullets

Sounds like you need 6 breeding pens, plus maybe three grow out pens (depending on how much you hatch and grow out)

I had....uh...6 breeding pens this year Stupid....but whatever. But I do no work, I make the kids do the work.

And breeding season is now over, so we are trying to reconsolidate... Toss them all together... But the blasted growing out chicks take over every breeding pen that gets vacated... So there is no reduction in work load yet.... In two nore months I can start eating or selling the extras...

My pens though...higgledy piggdely... Except for my first shed and coop, oh, and the pond coop that came with the place... Is all junk that I built. Takes longer to care for all critters...

You can look through my coop pages, starting link is there after you click on my name.

 

[Alaskan]

Ah, so I have coops, and two tractors, and a table in my veggie garden.... I use them all.