INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[weezerfish]

Ok new coop pics! This is the chickshaw 2.0 I mentioned a while back. It will always be inside electric fence. Still need metal on the back, corner trim on sheet metal edges and paint doors. I will probably paint ramp too so it lasts longer. We used hardware cloth on all the openings.
View attachment 1726333 Front showing handle to move it
View attachment 1726338
side view Its tall enough to offer shade for chickens 5 gallon bucket on top for water supply.View attachment 1726340
Inside view nest box areaView attachment 1726345
auto waterer with drain will be easier to clean.View attachment 1726347
Door doubles as a ramp View attachment 1726349
Top open to see nest box. If a hens broody just take the crate out with broody in it! I have extra crates for it.View attachment 1726352
waterersView attachment 1726354 Nest box external door. View attachment 1726356

That's a pretty slick little mobile coop. How many chickens will you put in it?

 

[Finnie]

Good morning fellow Indiana BYCers. I'd like to find a Barnevelder rooster for my 3 Barnie hens. Last year there was a lady selling Silver Barnevelder chicks and hatching eggs on Craigslist. She was on the east side of Indy. She also had "British tailed Araucanas" for sale, which I believe were discussed in this thread, and someone on here had bought some of those?

I was hoping I could find this lady. She hasn't listed anything on CL yet this year. Anybody know who I'm talking about? I hesitate to post an ISO ad on CL if I don't have to.

 

[pginsber]

Good morning fellow Indiana BYCers. I'd like to find a Barnevelder rooster for my 3 Barnie hens.... I hesitate to post an ISO ad on CL if I don't have to.

I imagined what your CL ad would be like 'looking for large, dark, roo, ideally, Barnevelder...' That made me chuckle.

When I began raising chickens, among the first rookie mistakes I made was giving 3-day old chicks live mealworm treats. One of them choked, and I swung it upside down by it's feet to dislodge the worm from it's mouth. Horrified, I'd caused some sort of trauma to the chick, I looked on Google to see what I should've done. This was my Google search "What to do for Choking Chick". Again--I WAS HORRIFIED at the results my search came back with.

 

[Leahs Mom]

I think that the use of the work "chick" is VERY LIKELY to get you into trouble...

 

[Faraday40]

When I 1st started out with chickens I did a google search on Black Sex Linked chicks.
You can just imagine my horror when some of those images popped up! It was an innocent mistake which DH still teases me about it today.

 

[Leahs Mom]

 

[Finnie]

I imagined what your CL ad would be like 'looking for large, dark, roo, ideally, Barnevelder...' That made me chuckle.

When I began raising chickens, among the first rookie mistakes I made was giving 3-day old chicks live mealworm treats. One of them choked, and I swung it upside down by it's feet to dislodge the worm from it's mouth. Horrified, I'd caused some sort of trauma to the chick, I looked on Google to see what I should've done. This was my Google search "What to do for Choking Chick". Again--I WAS HORRIFIED at the results my search came back with.

 

[Finnie]

When I 1st started out with chickens I did a google search on Black Sex Linked chicks.
You can just imagine my horror when some of those images popped up! It was an innocent mistake which DH still teases me about it today.

 

[Finnie]

That does beg the question... just how ARE you supposed to find black sex-linked chicks?

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Did you cut the crate for opening, or purchase them that way?

Yes the crate is cut by us.

That's a pretty slick little mobile coop. How many chickens will you put in it?

Thanks! 6 at most, I feel like that's pushing it. They are only in it at night and will be out all day.