It's just the instructions are had to follow, they use more pic's than anything else and the drawings aren't the best.... I have figured out to just sit and wait to let DH figure it out on his own, it's just easier that way.... lol
We were lucky with our ChickenCondos Barn Coop - the Cove Products manufacturer in Utah has about 20+ youtube videos on their products and have an employee showing how to assemble their coops step-by-step. I showed the video to our contractor so he could see the assembly piece-by-piece. Even the wheel package assembly was posted on youtube and it was a good thing it was because the contractor saw that one of the wheels had come apart in shipment and he was able to fix it because of the video instructions. Videos are better than Chinese illustrations that are usually useless from all the furniture we had to assemble ourselves from Made in China drawings.
I like your barn coop, was meaning to ask the Blue nest boxes... what are they?
The blue nestboxes are part of the Barn Coop and 4 are designed to fit in the long lidded nestbox. I ordered a couple extra boxes to put on the coop floor tray in case I got up to 6 hens. Some nights when it is really cold ALL 4 of our hens will roost in a nestbox - good thing I have a box for each. The boxes are kinda small at 12x12 compared to the old little coop that had 3 roomy 16x16 nestboxes. But the girls manage in the smaller boxes and each get their own box now. The Silkies have always been nestbox sleepers and the 2 LF will start roosting on the perches and eventually gravitate to a nestbox a couple hours later. I let them sleep wherever they want. I figure I don't want anyone telling me where to sleep so I don't force them to stay on the perches. They use the perches throughout the day but for some reason like the coziness of a nestbox for the long night. We have always used a patio light through the night so having light coming in through the 2 Barn Coop windows is familiar to them. Currently the windows are up against the housewall on the sidewalk during construction. I wonder if they will start positioning for a window seat once they get a "view" from the windows LOL!
This is just me so take it with a grain of salt, but I have found that red hens are mean.... don't care what breed they were they were just plain MEAN. So I don't have but 1 red colored hen and she is the exception to the rule. Don't know what red has to do with it just know that I have had to REHOME every red hen. So I just stay away from them!!!!
Yep, the red ones ARE more aggressive - within their own breed the reds do well on equal ground but they always stay on top in mixed flocks with that attitude of theirs. I wonder if that goes for red Silkies too? Don't know, don't care. I only like the darker colors for free-ranging anyway. Had a White Leg and by next molt she would be so dirty, dingy, stained, and yellow, that I don't get white chickens any more. I have a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and she gets dirtier than I like to see.
e so that's great but it's the tanish brown I was hoping it would lay a colored one both my EE girls lay the tanish brown colored ones oh well eggs are eggs… dose any one know if the EE eggs are bigger than wyndot eggs?
