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[BryLT3]

My beautiful wife, and two children helped me build another nesting coop inside my barn today. Start to finish (including cleaning the floor area) 4 hours. This coop is for cricket and his girls to roost in. They are free range so is come and go as they please. The coop is 10' long x 4' deep and 6' high. Has an osb roof. It's not hardware cloth but 6' welded wire fence. The coop turned out to be very strong and secure. The fence also is ran on the back wall. Fun little project and thanks to kabhyper1 for the idea.

Looks great!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

My beautiful wife, and two children helped me build another nesting coop inside my barn today. Start to finish (including cleaning the floor area) 4 hours. This coop is for cricket and his girls to roost in. They are free range so is come and go as they please. The coop is 10' long x 4' deep and 6' high. Has an osb roof. It's not hardware cloth but 6' welded wire fence. The coop turned out to be very strong and secure. The fence also is ran on the back wall. Fun little project and thanks to kabhyper1 for the idea.

Very nice! I've considered doing something like this in the pole barn but I haven't been able to figure out how to get them in and out without defacing the barn or leaving a door open. Neither of those options would work for me.... Been thinking of possible a ramp up to a window that's already there for them to come and go from the outside....

How do your chickens enter and exit?

 

[chickiebaby1]

I am really wanting to get some cochin pullets or hens because I have heard they are very good sitters, or go broody often. Does anyone on here know where I might be able to get some good quality birds? I am planning on going to the state fair in Aug. Do people sell birds or eggs there? Any info would be great. Thanks

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I am really wanting to get some cochin pullets or hens because I have heard they are very good sitters, or go broody often. Does anyone on here know where I might be able to get some good quality birds? I am planning on going to the state fair in Aug. Do people sell birds or eggs there? Any info would be great. Thanks

There is a show in Lebanon this fall. you might be able to meet a breeder there or at least get a list of bird owners. The trick is there is really 2 shows that day, the adult show their chickens while the youth shows theirs in a different building. So if you find a chicken in the youth barn, they would be on the list of youth owners not the adult owners. I only picked up one list last year.

 

[kabhyper1]

My beautiful wife, and two children helped me build another nesting coop inside my barn today. Start to finish (including cleaning the floor area) 4 hours. This coop is for cricket and his girls to roost in. They are free range so is come and go as they please. The coop is 10' long x 4' deep and 6' high. Has an osb roof. It's not hardware cloth but 6' welded wire fence. The coop turned out to be very strong and secure. The fence also is ran on the back wall. Fun little project and thanks to kabhyper1 for the idea.

Awesome! Maybe your chickens will put themselves away unlike ours lol!

 

[raisinemright]

Very nice!  I've considered doing something like this in the pole barn but I haven't been able to figure out how to get them in and out without defacing the barn or leaving a door open.  Neither of those options would work for me....  Been thinking of possible a ramp up to a window that's already there for them to come and go from the outside....

How do your chickens enter and exit?

Thanks! They come and go from open doors during the day. A goat door and a horse door stays open through the day. Then we shut the barn up at night.

 

[raisinemright]

Awesome! Maybe your chickens will put themselves away unlike ours lol!

Thanks Kab, they normaly roost around 8/8:30. I'm going to try and add a few of the EE's and a couple other hens to the barn coop. Hope they figure it out quickly. Cricket is great at getting his girls to go roost. Might need your guy's help with moving the pallet coop down to the new place!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

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Maybe I'll have a "professional pole building builder" come out and take a look at how a proper door could be put in.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

First build an indoor foyer of sorts so that you have room to open the person door to the pole barn and step inside to a small screened off area. Then put a chicken door in the screen off area as well as a human door. you can use the screen human door to get to the rest of your pole barn. you then build a tunnel of sorts that goes from the inside chicken pen along the walls of the pole barn until it comes to the chicken door in the screened off area. Then the chickens can't get to the rest of the barn or dangerous stuff stored there. Also they can't poo anywhere other than the pen and tunnel. Hint make the top of the tunnel hinge open for replacing bedding.


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[SallyinIndiana]

I'm listing my 2 bresse 14 week old pullets on CL. They are from @racinchickins 's Bresse stock. They are lovely chickens. I'm just not in love with white and I really need to stick with my favorite lines for breeding.

I'm not having great success with my BLRW program either. I spent money trying to get more new blood from Hardin poultry and that went sour. They might still be able to get me some chicks but it is so late in the season, they would not make it to this year's breeding pens. This is just another reason why buying a trio from a good breeder has advantages. Then I think so far every BLRW chick I hatched out from my pair this spring is looking like a rooster. And I did not get the colors I really wanted either. I thought for sure a black and a splash made blue chicks but maybe not. I got lots more splash and lots more blacks, maybe a blue rooster but no blue pullets unless I'm thinking the girls are roos. Who are the genetics people on here that can help me? I know I will be getting away from these BLRW if I don't get good results next year or if I don't have at least 3 hens going into the 2015 breeding season.