Howdy from Brazoria Co., southeastern Texas. I've been here off and on for over a year but just created an account.

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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frowGlad you joined.
One of the best birds I've ever had was a PBR. Loved her to pieces. Her bestie is also glorious. She is a black Australorp. I've never owned Orpingtons.
Bertie-Merle said:
one of my R.I. Reds can be a be-atch
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She's the HBIC. Someone's gotta be!

I'm sorry to say that you get points off for going on about your gorgeous girls and then failing to post pictures of them. :duc
 
DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frowGlad you joined.
One of the best birds I've ever had was a PBR. Loved her to pieces. Her bestie is also glorious. She is a black Australorp. I've never owned Orpingtons.

She's the HBIC. Someone's gotta be!

I'm sorry to say that you get points off for going on about your gorgeous girls and then failing to post pictures of them. :duc
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Heheheee ..... I get what you're say'in about the HBIC! That would be my Ruby! ; -)

My bad on attaching no pics .... I'm attaching some from this morning of The Girls and my current coop .... looks like I'm going to need to start work on building an additional coop as soon as this cold front moves through if I want to add two to four more to the flock in early February .... one that can be placed in one of my other fenced sections so they can free range without a Hatfield's and the McCoy's Redux!
 

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Kenneth Zweerink said:
Thank's for sharing the picture's your Chickens are Beautiful! And that's a Real Nice Chicken Coop.
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Thank you, Kenneth! I think they're a bit on the fat side, but given tonight's temp drop that will hopefully be in their favor for the present!

I know ... I feed my Hank-meister the Blue Heeler a few too many duck jerky treats and my chickens a tad too much sunflower/mealworm/cricket/peanut treat mix. My bad! They did well with their molting though and there is only one of my Easter Eggers who still has new tail feather stubs coming in, but otherwise feathered-up. Given how warm it's been I think they did well re-feathering, although the man at Stanton's Feed warned me that it could be a late molt and early freeze this year.

As far as the coop goes ... I bought the best reviewed kit I could find and double Behr waterproofed every side of every piece with 2-3 coats before assembling it. It took over a week to apply and dry all of the pieces in the humidity before assembling and I'm still not happy with it's sturdiness, although it is MUCH, MUCH better than most available kits online that I've seen. I'm really looking for a better option ... particularly rot-resistant modular options that can be separated and/or joined together for my plans going forward.

If you, or anyone, has any ideas on modular coops that are warm/high-humidity resistant I'd love to hear about them. I'm seeing that there are resources here that I've not even begun to scratch the surface of .... which is AWESOME! That said, I need to narrow my options down in the next month or so and plan things out.

Thanks so much for responding ... and thanks for your kind words about my fat chickens!

Merry Christmas from me, Barbara, and Hank the Tank cowdog!
 

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