Is it really this complicated? Feeling a bit overwhelmed!

[Montana-Hens]

Get/make a coop and start them in it. Every year they spend 2 or 3 weeks in my studio space b/c my husband can't imagine they can get enough heat under the lights. By week three my studio is destroyed in "chicken dust" and I am forced to clean the studio in ways I don't clean the rest of my house

 

[busymadre]

Montana-Hens: Sounds like you need some electricity in your coop to run a heat lamp for those extra cold days. Once mine are in the coop & run they won't be coming back inside. If you don't want to go to all that trouble, a long extension cord would work for those temporary situations.

 

[cortner1195]

Big R

Where do you live? I have Big R stores here in Spokane. We buy most everything there.

 

[bruceha2000]

Once mine are in the coop & run they won't be coming back inside.

Same with mine. Not that they even try. Could be due to seeing one of the cats through the door last summer. They all went scrambling off the porch.

Bruce

 

[taunikelley]

Where do you live? I have Big R stores here in Spokane. We buy most everything there.

Billings, MT. I believe that in MT it is called Shipton's Big R. Thats funny that you live in Spokane. I moved from Spokane to Billings about 6yrs ago.

 

[cortner1195]

Funny. Just in Big R this weekend. They are always knowledgeable.