Lavender-Based Leghorn Breeding & Improvement Discussion

These genetics are very rare/very common

  • very rare - seldom or have never seen before

    Votes: 30 96.8%

  • very common - I see them everywhere

    Votes: 1 3.2%
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The base of each coop and brooder is made out of recycled pallets the one by twos and the one by fours are all recycled pallets.. everything else have picked up in the scrap wood section at Home Depot you should see if you can go man there's always something to find.
 
Nice picts Miami Leghorns. ETA good tips for low cost wood !!

Moonshiner, can't wait to see what you come up with.

Once in California - way way back in the day -- they had this thing called the 'Festival of the Arts' in Laguna Beach/Laguna Canyon. It was a seaside resort and became very swank - but also had a hippie element. The Festival of the Arts if memory serves had living replicas of famous paintings -- like say 'The Last Supper' except real people would be dressed up to play the figures in the painting. They had a 'jurried' art show and many more artists were turned away than included if I recall rightly. (Laguna Beach was considered at art community at one time I think--maybe back in the 1930's or '40's) So the folk who were 'rejected' went across the street from the Art Festival and they made the 'Saw Dust Festival' -- It was all made from scraps and left overs etc. and was very creative and more interesting and 'artsy' than the snooty one on the other side of the road. Or so its seems.

The Sawdust Festival was people building things from scraps. Of course over the 50-60 years it has become commercial etc. -- and totally different, time moves ahead everywhere. Every place has a festival or two also now-a-days. (Especially here in TX) -- Here's a screen grab from the Sawdust:
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Oh, so that's how they do it. You can look in this screen grab and see the man is real, but the table where his hand is located is painted, as are the chess pieces. Pretty ingenious never-the-less:
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So the people are real, and the rest of the stuff is like stage props.

Apology for drifting off topic, Oh yeah, we were talking about using used materials to build, enlarge and refurbish coops.

Before I reduced my population by one, I was thinking for trying to use some plastic shelving, chicken wire, hardware cloth and huge limbs plus small branches to fabricate a new kind of coop with an emphasis on going vertical. I never even got as far as the sketching phase...but I have some limbs leaning against a tree that I can't decide if I should throw on the burn pile or save to bring along to the Moonshiner's barn raising in a few years when this is all past if I'm among the living. LOL

Most important, and bottom line is that the whole idea of 'form follows function' and what the requirements of a chicken pen dictate, added to the materials that are on hand and that can easily be obtained plus creativity and necessity can produce some interesting pens and best of all open the door for ---wait for it, wait for it.....
ta da
More chicks for another project. Yay!
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I've discovered PVC pipe. Used that purple goopy stuff for the first time to build a 'roof' frame that was 10'x20'. Failed to buy enough 'T's' and as a consequence, my flat roof couldn't resist the rain accumulation on the tarp over it despite the chicken wire under the tarp. Luckily I'm like the Moonshiner and I had left over 2x4's and I was able to build some braces to keep the roof from collapsing on the extension of my pens. The roof covers those chain-link panels. They used to be cheap - nearly give away on Craig's list but that isn't the case any longer I think.

Here's a plan for PVC pipe green house that could be adapted to a chicken coop.
http://www.pvcplans.com/pvc-greenhouse.htm

Here's a good chicken tractor,
http://www.pvcplans.com/pvc-pastured-poultry-pen.htm

BUT - none of these could keep chooks safe here where I am. I have had coyote and a pesky fox and a critter that looked so much like a wolf I couldn't believe it (cause wolfs are extinct here--- I can only guess someone had a wolf-dog hybrid that was out and tearing up my pens -- and should it reappear it may go to the happy hunting grounds. Be warned oh irresponsible dog owners wherever you may be.
 
MIAMI LEGHORN said:
I think that is a tremendous idea. I think the "cook books"would definitely get a lot of people going in their projects there's so many good people on this site willing to share very valuable information and insight.Sometimes even if you're not following a certain variety or pattern just the things they learn during the project can benefit someone else on another project as well. So it's a win-win for everyone.

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MIAMI LEGHORN said:
Yes and when you combine putting in tons of work plus the research side and data side of it,it makes that much more interesting and educational. I also like what ChicKat says anything to help you reach your goal directly with minimal waste. But also somebody like you Moonshiner puts you on the other side of the coin is from what I understand of the tremendous amount of birds that you've gone through there is a knowledge there;a history and a backlog of data that you're sitting on that is PURE GOLD.
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Well I guess my attempt to give out a hint just went over everyone's heads or maybe something's brewing behind closed doors but that above was my attempt to get ChicKat and Moonshiner inspired to do a collaboration on some books or A BOOK.

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She's really not to bad. More potential then most I've seen.
Do you have any other leghorns. Now I'm curious how her size compares.
 

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