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[Mojo Chick'n]

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I have some two week olds I'm putting out into the coop after Wednesday (wed is our last really cool day/night for awhile).

I have two heat lamps on out there - yesterday I turned it off during the day and just kept chekcing temps - it was 80 in the coop with the sun shining on it - but not sure where your coop is situated (sun/shade wise) so ya might have to have a lamp on during the day too - but yeah, go ahead and try them out there. I hung a thermometer in the coop so I could monitor temps out there.

Right now my youngest that is in the coop is three weeks. I am hatching almost constantly, and have gotten some hatchery chicks, too - so I have all ages. I think the oldest ones are 5 or 6 weeks.

Yay that ya got a brahma!! I love my brahmas - I've got 25 more of them coming from Cackle in a week or two

Glad ya like the coops - took some convincing to get hubby to build me runs onto the lower coops - he was just gonna have them as coops for free rangers, but I told him I need enclosed groups for pure chicks. Finally talked him into it. We discussed building a new coop for brooding, but then I made him realize it would be cheaper to build me runs onto the existing lower coop and use the upper coop (which had a run) for babies. Since he was building me a waterfowl pen down there anyway, he agreed

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(also, there is nothing like having 170 chicks in your house to make your hubby want to build you more coops and runs

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Got to take the kid to work (yeah, he has to work Easter Sunday - at a Fast Food Place - Lee's Chicken - sheesh, you'd think they would close up today.)

meri

 

[ThiefPouter06]

I got to rethink my flooring in my coop. It is a metal pole barn (8' X 16') on a very steep hill. I have just a dirt floor with some hay that I scrape out once a week. This did well since I only have 6 chickens. However with these spring rains it becomes a creek during the rains and now is a mud pit. I am thinking about putting down several inches of gravel, then sand and maybe concreting the out side to try to divert the rain around the building. My hope is that if I have 4 inches of gravel and sand that would keep the floor dry. Any thoughts?

 

[pop57]

matt y. :

I got to rethink my flooring in my coop. It is a metal pole barn (8' X 16') on a very steep hill. I have just a dirt floor with some hay that I scrape out once a week. This did well since I only have 6 chickens. However with these spring rains it becomes a creek during the rains and now is a mud pit. I am thinking about putting down several inches of gravel, then sand and maybe concreting the out side to try to divert the rain around the building. My hope is that if I have 4 inches of gravel and sand that would keep the floor dry. Any thoughts?

Hey Matt ive done the gravel thing works great for me . got my breeder pigeons on it at the moment.I want everything on it in time..

Happy Easter to yall and yours.

Pop​

 

[pop57]

My quail are hatching looks like im gonna have way to many

Day old chicks are $1. ea or less if you buy a bunch i had set 450 eggs and they are all are hatching looks like. Goldens , Chocolates, Texas A&M Whites, Jumbo Browns. I live in Mount Sterling cell # 859-585-8205

Have a few French Guinea keets left as well

Pop

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

The duckies have left the building!! YES!!!!

I'll get pics later, but I got the waterfowl run done yesterday and put the ducks out and they spent the night out there. Also one lone Welsumer mix rooster that needs to go to Sano. He chooses to live with the ducks, cause the chickens all kick his butt

I have the door to their old coop open so it can dry out a bit in this wind before I have to go in there and muck it out. This one is even worse than the other one I did

I have a leak in that roof (have bought hubby four tubes of silicone caulk to fix all my leaks) and a puddle by the door

The ducks are diggin' on the open air and the more room to roam in (even though they spend most of their time laying around grooming themselves in the sunshine and not much roaming.)

Now, the space they have now will be cut back when I make the other run off the coop - but by then I'll have fewer big ducks, so it'll all work out ok. 18 Swedish ducks take up a lot more room than just four of them will

Oh, and my white call duck eggs shipped this morning at 7:30 AM (so I'm told

) so I am excited as all get out to have those to put into the bator. My goose eggs go into the hatcher on wednesday. If they all hatch (or even most of them) I'll have at least a couple of Buff American Goslings for sale soon. I'd like to keep a trio of them (if I can talk hubby into it

) but I have 7 eggs, so we'll see how it goes.

Got quail eggs due this next week, too - both jumbos and buttons - not many of those, just a few to try again (haven't had any luck hatching them as of yet). Need to put chicken eggs in this wednesday so they are hatching out when my sister comes down to visit, she said she wants to see some eggs hatch. The appleyard duck eggs (if they are still good - not stinky though, so I'm hoping) have another week to go yet.

I tried to talk hubby into letting me go to Day & Day this morning, reasoning that I'll need to get more chick starter at some point, so I may as well go today and get free chicks with it

he said No, I have enough for now. Plus I got the 40 chicks coming this month from Cackle.

IMO you can never have too many free chickens.

Well, gonna cruise BYC a bit and see what else is happening.

meri

 

[estpr13]

Mojo Chick'n :

The duckies have left the building!! YES!!!!

IMO you can never have too many free chickens.

Well, gonna cruise BYC a bit and see what else is happening.

meri

ie. looking for more chicks are we?​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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ie. looking for more chicks are we?

Free is the keyword

I got tons of chicks, but free ones are always welcome, IMO

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

anybody want to buy a pair of geese

Benny went into George's coop and went after Miss Piggy with her babies.

Sounded like he was killing her in there - by the time I got there, she had a bunch of feathers out of her butt area on the floor. She's ok, just shook up, but still - if I'd had a gun nearby that would have been one dead goose for dinner.

I'm hatching some geese - raise them with the chickens, these guys got to go.

I can laugh at them going after the dog (he can defend himself) but to go into the chicken coop and go after a mama hen and her brood? nope, ain't gonna happen, not on my watch.

meri

 

[estpr13]

I saw my first snake today in with the freshly sprouting mint plants. It looked like a young female gardner snake. I left the future hen food alone...

I am slowly getting overcrowded in chickens. How did that happen? Perhaps Mojo or Shelleyed would know?

Out of the eleven barred rocks I hatched, it appears that all but two are roos.

Looks like I'll have some cornish style (barred rock roo) hens for the freezer next week. Just in time for THE Derby.

My five white feathered pigs (also known as Cornish-X's) will also be big enough next week as they are just now getting bigger than those same barred rocks I put them in with Perhaps I should get rid of them first so the barred rocks can fatten up for a week or two, since the pigs fill their crops so full the rocks are now have trouble getting enough to eat. I have to spread the food out all over.

My four broody hen's chicks are out with all the big hens and roo.

They seem to be ignored for the most part and are growing like weeds. I gave some treats and the roo was calling for the hens and the chicks came running and he let them eat. I think I like my roo!

Got to go back to bed. Hope everyone is doing fine.

 

[hobbyfarmer]

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Oh, we don't know the first thing about showing. Hubby and I pack up the kids and just go look at everyone elses' birds. Last spring we found an adorable pair of Mille Fluers and we're planning to pick up another pair of them Saturday if we see some for sale.

What will you be showing?

Kristen