Icelandic Chickens

[Happy Chooks]

I'm so gonna beat Lukka! Looks like I have plenty of time to finish my coop and still get it done before she starts laying again.

Although that picture is too cute, that poor baby needs to get out on it's own. I wonder if Lukka will keep mothering her until the baby starts laying eggs?

 

[The Sheriff]

The Warden is just a title and it does not guarantee any kind of respect around here! I talk, and I talk, and I talk but no one listens. I got new Moms fighting new Moms, two week olds fighting two week olds, hourly escapes through my make shift fence, in a word, CHAOS. There have been a total of six eggs laid since we moved here. I made them steel cut oatmeal yesterday with raisins. What did I get for my effort? One silkie egg! And for that, we had to hear the egg song all day from all the hens and Isi. I went out expecting the nest boxes to be overflowing with eggs. Not noooo, one silkie egg. So it's toast for me for breakfast again.

They have a nest box condo complex with all the amenities and I get one silkie egg? Chicken and dumplings are sounding mighty tasty right about now.

Don't even get me started on SuperMom Lukka. When this "baby" starts high school she'll probably lay another egg and then start sitting again. I have three lovely Icelandic hens who turn five months old soon. They are from Lukka & Henna eggs. Maybe they will come through for me. Or not.

p.s. Take a cruise Kelly. You have lots of time.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Did you build those nest boxes? That is exactly how I want mine. Care to share the building of them? I'm so gonna copy them!

I love the handicapped placard by the little roost. That is a riot!

 

[The Sheriff]

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Kelly, I made them from the shelving units that came with my shed. They looked like this.

I removed them from the wall, turned them around so that the mounting boards now became the boards to keep the shavings in. I cut dividers out of OSB and screwed them in place to make four nesting holes out of each shelf unit. I screwed the two units together and made a jump up board for upper boxes out of OSB and attached it with "L" brackets. I painted them brown and screwed the whole thing to the wall of the coop. Then I cut a piece of T11 siding that was left over from my barn build and made a slanted roof to keep them from roosting on it. I painted it to match the walls. The whole thing took me a couple of hours and no money! Everything was left over from another project.

Lucy likes her disabled roost. She's used it for the last year or so. I gave it a new coat of paint and my expired placard. I helped her find her roost the first night and now she finds it nightly by herself. She is so sweet.

 

[The Sheriff]

BTW, the barn came out great too! Excuse the debris, he is still cleaning up. It has a large open barn space and a smaller enclosed storage area with the people door. That was going to be my coop until I changed my mind and bought the shed. It has water and electric so I will keep my incubators and brooders down there. How lucky am i?

 

[kathyinmo]

Water and electric ????? You spoiled brat! I suppose you will have air conditioning and heat installed too?

I thought barns were red.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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you are certainly spoiled Mary! Nothing but the best for you and you babies! When are the ducks showing up?

 

[The Sheriff]

#1 Yes, I am spoiled. Nuff said.

#2 Haven't decided about heat and A/C yet.

#3 Barns are red if you want them to be. If you want them to match the color of your barn style house they are the same color as your barn style house.

#4 The ducks will be here as soon as I can hatch some Silver Appleyards. So far I can't find any eggs.

There!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Geez, now I'm totally jealous! The house, land, barn, coop AND the ducks I want!

 

[kathyinmo]

I like red barns.