HAINIES HEN HOUSE HAS HENS!
Well this summer it finally happened. I finally have chickens. A friend of ours incubated a half dozen eggs for us. From those six eggs only two chicks made it to a week old when they were given to us. We purchased four more one week old chicks from
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In our summer kitchen I set up a radiant brood heater inside pallet collars two sets high, roughly 16" tall. I set up another pair of pallet collars on the grass for use when the day warmed up. For a cover I used a garden sieve and scrap piece of ply wood that I moved with the birds between inside and outside. I relocated the outdoor set everyday.
After a few weeks of manually moving the birds twice a day and several escapes a friend of ours gave us a VERY small coop with run that worked much better, but made it harder for me to get hold of the chicks.
I told my neighbor about our chicks. By shear coincidence his girlfriend had to re home her four adult hens due to a chicken ordnance in her town. The hens came with two small 3 to 4 bird size kit style coops.
The smaller of these two has a clam shell opening style roof making it easy to access birds. This is were I now keep the chicks. Im going to add wheels to this coop very soon.
For now, I put the adult hens in the other of the two coops at night for security reasons. During the day they go in an 8×10 dog.
I still haven't gotten my first coop rebuilt, thats in the near future. It was given to me a few years ago. It is approximately 3'×6' and but up to the dog run when after rebuilding.
I still have four cattle panels and assorted materials to build a hoop house style coop in the not too distant future. I'm mulling around the idea of incorporating that with my bokashi windrow I have working out back, but that’s a topic for a future post
I'm trying to teach a hen to pitch a baseball but all she does is "Balk balk balk".