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[BackYardChknLvr]

Hey Mo5 did you get your coop from that one teen age kid that builds them down off umm vista i or orchard??? that sells them for like 110 or so on Craigslist???

 

[Mo5C]

Hey Mo5 did you get your coop from that one teen age kid that builds them down off umm vista i or orchard??? that sells them for like 110 or so on Craigslist???

Yes. Why? It is all discombobulated and not put together right. My dad and I had to put a new roof on because the original one wasn't big enough to cover the nesting boxes to keep the rain out and I already had to redo a hinge and cut a new chicken door, add a screen to the window and I don't like where he put the roost stick and the door is hung wrong and I have to hit it with my knee to get it to close right. other than that it is a basic coop. My dad and I built the chicken yard ourselves out of reclaimed lumber, only thing new on the yard is the chicken wire. My complaints about my coop are as much my fault as his, I should have been more specific.

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

Yes. Why? It is all discombobulated and not put together right. My dad and I had to put a new roof on because the original one wasn't big enough to cover the nesting boxes to keep the rain out and I already had to redo a hinge and cut a new chicken door, add a screen to the window and I don't like where he put the roost stick and the door is hung wrong and I have to hit it with my knee to get it to close right. other than that it is a basic coop. My dad and I built the chicken yard ourselves out of reclaimed lumber, only thing new on the yard is the chicken wire. My complaints about my coop are as much my fault as his, I should have been more specific.

yeah i thought the same thing when i went to go look at his stuff, i thought the roofs were to thin and i told him he should look in to putting thicker plywood for the roof, but it hought for his age he does a pritty good job i was thinking about buying one from him my self, but i decided i was just gona build my own getting some blue prints this spring to build a new one, but naw i like it i just reconize his designs cause he does the little window area all the same on all his coops lol.. but at least your chickens are Blue pride now

 

[Mo5C]

yeah I do agree they are good for his age and experience, but if I ever get another one I am building it myself and at least this one keeps them warm and dry. I have a sister who also raises chickens that just built a bigger one so she is giving me her old one ( I am hopefully starting an Olive egger project in spring), I have the hens and the rooster, I just need the coop . I love BSU football, hence the color theme for my coop, my great-nephew (he's 4) helped me paint it.

 

[BackYardChknLvr]

I absolutely love it.. yeah im hoping i can start a project some day i'm still out there looking for somebody to do it with since the roo's will have to be gone befor i get fined but i have hope i may go talk to my neighbors by my parents they took my last two roosters and maybe since they have a empty side of a coop i can use that..

 

[Mo5C]

Hopefully they will let you keep the Roosters there and hopefully before you get fined. I am trying to figure out how to get the other coop over to my parents faster as my Rooster that got injured is trying to crow and the minute he does he will have to leave where I have him at, hopefully he doesn't try to crow again before next weekend (that is when I am supposed to go get the other coop), as long as he waits until then to make another attempt at crowing I won't get into trouble.

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

I have heard that if you tie a string from their neck to one of their legs roosters can't raise their head enough to crow and will learn not to try eventually. Kind of like how wearing peepers teaches them not to peck at other chicens. Worth a try to save your Roos if you need to.

 

[Daloorashens]

Intersting on teaching them not to crow... I know when a young cockerel that I recently sold started crowing I put him in a dog crate in the garage, he couldn't stand up in it, but he was still able to crow... I keep my roos at my mom's place, she can have roos, I can't where I live (about a mile away, go figure)...

Michelle, that clean faced Amer laid her first egg yesterday.... a nice blue egg Yay!!! I'm feeling tempted to go ahead and put her in with my cockerels and just sell any of chicks from her eggs as EE's....hmmm...

 

[pawtraitart]

Intersting on teaching them not to crow... I know when a young cockerel that I recently sold started crowing I put him in a dog crate in the garage, he couldn't stand up in it, but he was still able to crow... I keep my roos at my mom's place, she can have roos, I can't where I live (about a mile away, go figure)...

Michelle, that clean faced Amer laid her first egg yesterday.... a nice blue egg Yay!!! I'm feeling tempted to go ahead and put her in with my cockerels and just sell any of chicks from her eggs as EE's....hmmm...

She would be great for easter eggers!

 

[Daloorashens]

She would be great for easter eggers!

I'm thinking the same thing, lol=)

I had to laugh at your comment on the UT thread about being tempted by the chicks at the feed stores, even though you have a barn full of them at home... I feel the same way... it's kind of ridiculous, actually, lol... oh well, at least this addiction isn't bad for your health....

For any of you going to chickenstock this May... I am hatching a bunch of eggs this spring... kind of went crazy on the swap pages, plus some of the swappers are sending me chicks instead of eggs... soooo.... if you want something, I'm starting a list... I will be getting crested cream legbar chicks, russian orloff chicks (spangled). a variety of orpingtons (hopefully some lemon cuckoo and crele), and I will be hatching some welsummer, speckled sussex and a bunch of swedish flower hen eggs... also wheaten marans, but I am planning on breeding them, so I will keep them until I know for sure what I want to keep for my project, but still should have some extra. of course it will depend on how the hatches go on the shipped eggs, but I still should have a fun variety of chicks to choose from... let me know and I will hold chicks back from the ones that go to chickenstock...