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[Too Fast]

The floor has a layer of hardware cloth down, secured to the foundation.



Over that is a layer of gravel:



And then I back filled it to the top row of cinder blocks:

Thank you for making the floor secure against digging predators. I was worried about that, now I feel safe. Looks great!

 

[bradselig]

Pipd- the coop looks great! Love the chick updates as well. I'm still going with my gut and saying the silkie is a pullet. I'm not seeing any of the streamers from her crest like her two hatch mates have and comb is still smaller than theirs as well.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Too Fast - Yeah, we didn't paint too carefully around the foundation, so there's a lot of drops and running paint on it, but I figure the hens aren't picky about the appearance. The main thing is that it's secure, which I'm pretty satisfied of, though I still want to put a skirt down around the outside just to be safe. Lots of screws and washers went into that, but less hardware cloth than I figured, so I have a whole 50' roll to play with.


Brad - I hope you're right! I thought for sure I had a young man after the fight that s/he had with my other boy, Hika Ma, but since then Marka/Margaret has been doing things like letting the younger pullets keep him/her from the feed and running to Po boy when he chirped with a treat for the girls. This bird has left me completely thrown as far as its identity!

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

The floor has a layer of hardware cloth down, secured to the foundation.



Over that is a layer of gravel:



And then I back filled it to the top row of cinder blocks:



A lot of work, but GREAT job !!!

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

Hi everyone, I am back from South Dakota. Crazy long exhausting work. Glad to be home. Had an absolutely horrible experience with my chickens while gone. Lost 2 of my rare Blue Ameracaunas and 1 BCM. My coop is a disaster. My 'fake' eggs are missing along with my egg gathering basket. And my chickens are not laying anymore.
My neighbor came and mowed my pasture without asking and now not sure what to do about our calf.
2 of our turtles are MIA; 2 that we have had for like 8 years too.
NO clue on any of that, but very puzzling disturbing.
Hopefully though now that I am home....things can get back to normal.

Guess you just really cannot leave your animals in care if someone else. :-/

Oh no, This is why I never leave. Nobody takes care of them like we do !!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Hi everyone, I am back from South Dakota. Crazy long exhausting work. Glad to be home. Had an absolutely horrible experience with my chickens while gone. Lost 2 of my rare Blue Ameracaunas and 1 BCM. My coop is a disaster. My 'fake' eggs are missing along with my egg gathering basket. And my chickens are not laying anymore.
My neighbor came and mowed my pasture without asking and now not sure what to do about our calf.
2 of our turtles are MIA; 2 that we have had for like 8 years too.
NO clue on any of that, but very puzzling disturbing.
Hopefully though now that I am home....things can get back to normal.

Guess you just really cannot leave your animals in care if someone else. :-/

I have a question. Your neighbor mowed your pasture...was he mowing it to bale it for hay? What made him do that? Did he need hay or did he think he was helping you out?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I just saw this post while catching up on what I've missed over the past few days. Whoops!

I never posted their 3 month pictures here, did I? These are from Monday:

Huka the Silver Lakenvelder:




Ihi the Golden Campine, on her last tail feather (she's lost it since then) :




Marama the Egyptian Fayoumi:





Po baby the little MAN! (Err, Black Cochin bantam) :





Rangi the Ancona!!

Roha the Exchequer Leghorn:





Tiwhiri the lovely Light Brown Leghorn:





And Hika Ma is a jerk so I'm not going to include him here.

I love Tiwhiri, she is really pretty. I hate when cockerels get mean, Hika Ma was my favorite (he is pretty).

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I have a question. Your neighbor mowed your pasture...was he mowing it to bale it for hay? What made him do that? Did he need hay or did he think he was helping you out?

My dad would do something like that. He would thing he was helping by mowing that tall grass, unless of course he had seen a cow in it, then my dad knows better. After all who wants to mow over cow droppings.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Oh no, This is why I never leave. Nobody takes care of them like we do !!

Exactly.when I write instructions people dont follow them. Plus nobody talks to them like I do. Call me crazy, but I like to talk to them and they make little noises back! I put that one the list as a suggestion, but no one does it lol.

 

[iamfivewire]

a nice collection of pretty chickens pipdzip