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[BantyChooks]

No, just a good memory, when it counts

 

[Pensmaster]

Hi Whites. Glad to see your getting help with the shed.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Me too. Got both end walls cut & assembled today. One's already in place; second will be tomorrow. Working alone again; almost lost the first one.

 

[BunnynChicks]

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[Pensmaster]

Me too. Got both end walls cut & assembled today. One's already in place; second will be tomorrow. Working alone again; almost lost the first one.

Almost suggested ballon framing to put it together. One piece at a time. Sure don't want to lose it by yourself.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: I honestly think it was pure luck - there was no ramp up to the roosts in this particular coop, the birds hop/fly up, so that may have been a temporary deterrent in the face of easily accessible Feather Fixer pellets... I also think I was lucky to get out there before anything happened... Yes, very very lucky. (wanted to add an emoticon here, but couldn't find one that fit...)

@Sally Sunshine

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Sally!!!!! I almost missed it - Happy Birthday!!!

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Thanks, it was! I, um... just MIGHT have gone a little OCD on checking and rechecking the coop doors when locking up tonight. And going back out and checking again. And propping a cinder block against the Frat boys coop door...

@Fire Ant Farm That was close on your birds. I am glad they were OK. I had that stomach dropped feeling myself two mornings ago when I went to open poo doors and realized that not only was the pop door, but the run door was open to the tiny coop where I have my two GFF CL that are almost seven months and set to move in with their own pullets after the extras go to the swap was open. I was very lucky to find their food pretty empty, but both of them OK. Then I walked about ten yarfd to the barn, and while I fed the barn cat bokd as brass causing me to start a young skunk walked past about three feet to my left up into a hay bale, and then down between the next to bales.

I dodged two bullets.

A while ago I had a young skunk wandering the Naked Neck paddock in the morning just as their automatic door opened and all the chickens began to pop out. I was very lucky that it was daylight, and that it had gotten trapped in there and was scared and 100% focused on getting out (ignoring the chickens). Yeah, it's scary to think what's out there at night - still being relatively new to chicken keeping, it's still an adjustment to think of how vulnerable they are at night (even the fiercest roosters). I built my coops as tight as I can - just gotta remember to lock them up!

My D'Anvers pullet

Look at her beard!!

I LOVE this picture!!!

Quote: Raccoon pressure is the main reason I gave up on trying to grow any corn before even trying...

- Ant Farm

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Balloon framing? Never heard of it.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

*waving*

I found some eggs to give my broody! A man not too far from me has Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs. Meeting up with him tomorrow. So excited!!!

 

[Chaos18]

*waving*

I found some eggs to give my broody! A man not too far from me has Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs. Meeting up with him tomorrow. So excited!!!

Congrats. SLW are very pretty birds. I have 3.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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I got the framing of this coop together by myself (I'm a wee little thing). Did the same for the previous coop, and learned how to do it alone, but these walls were 16x8, and heavy. It took a lot of racing around to keep things from toppling, cursing, and walls fell a few times. And a few pulled muscles. But I ended up using multiple very strong short bungees cords wrapped around the intersection, and with predrilled screw holes, I managed to get it all together. But that was probably the hardest part of doing the big coop alone...




- Ant Farm