Hello from the Netherlands.

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Hi! Great job on the building! It's beautiful! and

 

[ronott1]

Hello to all of you Chickenlovers.

Found this forum by searching on the RCOM Pro 10 Plus on Google, which we got yesterday. Finally decided to register myself. Found a lot of information about it in a thread.

I ( we, me wife and I) are not new with chickens, I was breeding them already when I was about 14-15 years old ( Seebrights). Nowadays chickens we have, we got them 1 month ago.
1 Cock and 5 chickens.

The breed we have is "Hollandse kriel" (Dutch bantam). The colours we have are silver, white, black, partridge (also the cock) and lemon partridge. We have them for the eggs ( and also because they are just beautifull).

We ordered a chickenhouse but when it came, damn, that was a small one, even too small for the little chickens, no doubt that we whould have put them in that small shed.

So where we always parked one of the cars, we rebuilt that part for the chickens so they would have space enough. With a substrate of wood chips and a nice sand bath in the corner they can spend all day.

The chickens we got from a cousin of my mother-in-law. Because of breeding bloodlines he could not "use" these anymore so we were glad we could take them over.

We had 4 eggs for breeding/hatching in a small machine. Problems with that machine and the next one again, so sh*t happens with the stressed eggs and they died in the egg.

But since yesterday the RCOM and wow, what a relief ( so far ;-)!) We will see, we put in 8 eggs in good condition. Let's see in 20 days !

Attached some pictures, hope you enjoy them. To compare, you can see the "green" ordered chickenhouse, which should be suitable for 6 small chicken pffffff.... if we have small chicken, after growing up, we will put them first in there so the others can get use to them. If not we will divide the whole room in 2 or 4 parts.

Also on the pictures the box I made from an old cupboard ( not ready/painted etc. on the pictures) where the small chicken will move in after dried up. The oldest dog has already approved it.

See ya.
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Robert & Nicole

You are well on your way!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Robert and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[sourland]

Hello, Robert and Nichole = welcome to BYC. You have a great set up for your birds and have picked a beautiful breed to work with.

 

[getaclue]

Welcome Robert, and Nicole.
I'm not sure how they get away with some of the claims on the pre-fab chicken coops. When they claim it is suitable for 4 birds, that means 2, maybe. One for 6 will usually work adequately for 2 3 depending on size.

You did a fine job on your new coop. I can see chicken math striking soon.

 

[drumstick diva]

Nice to meet you Robert and Nicole, hope you will enjoy Backyard Chickens as much as we do.

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Glad you decided to join us! Good job on building your own coop! The prefabs look cute but are usually tiny for the amount of birds they are advertised to hold! You can always use it as an infirmary or isolating a broody hen