"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[foreverlearning]

CackedNut: just keep a look out for any signs of anything trying to get in, just like if you had a closed coop at night.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

TerriLaChicks, I'm newer here, who are Amtrak and Acela? Guineas?
Laurie

My white peacocks I hatched last year. Both are girls. I kept them along with Romeo, my silver pied (he's my avatar pic) & Burt, my black shoulder silver pied males.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Ok all...another dumb question....are you ready

??? My coop is attached to the run and completely enclosed with heavy duty wire. It is secure. The neighbors rottweiler attempted entry once and tore his nose up so much, that he only stalks around the coop and run now. The property is surrounded by 3 board horse fencing, that is why my girls are only out of coop and run when I'm outside working. I do not lock up my girls in the coop at night. They go in themselves at dusk and come out at first light. What are the cons to doing this? My coop has good ventilation (2 soffit vents and 2 2x2 windows). The nesting boxes are attached to the coop on either side (3 each side). They are not laying yet, but hopefully soon! What do you think about not closing the door to the coop? Is it necessary during this time of year? I could understand during the winter, with cold weather, but now?
Thanks,
Laurie

I tried that & got away w/it for the longest time -- my pen is a six foot fence & I have wire on the ground a foot around the coop -- then my luck ran out -- I went out one morning to find 3 of my hens dead & partially eaten. I set a trap & caught 2 possums over the next several days. We could see where the wire was bent at the top where they had climbed over it. So now the coop is locked up ever night.

 

[CackedNut]

My white peacocks I hatched last year. Both are girls. I kept them along with Romeo, my silver pied (he's my avatar pic) & Burt, my black shoulder silver pied males.

Ahhh...Romeo is beautiful!

 

[CackedNut]

I tried that & got away w/it for the longest time -- my pen is a six foot fence & I have wire on the ground a foot around the coop -- then my luck ran out -- I went out one morning to find 3 of my hens dead & partially eaten. I set a trap & caught 2 possums over the next several days. We could see where the wire was bent at the top where they had climbed over it. So now the coop is locked up ever night.

That's terrible! My run is completely enclosed (even has the heavy duty wire as a roof). So enclosed, that my husband and I got locked in it and our 8 yr old had to let us out!!! At that point we realized a "design flaw" in using a gate latch on the exterior of the run door. We changed that out for a different kind of latch. The 8 yr old had WAY too much fun laughing at us before he let us out!

 

[mzstre]

Does anyone know what breed this is? I want one.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/818112/what-breed-could-my-roo-be

If you really want one, I have a young roo that looks almost exactly like this guy. He is a pet quality silkie from a project breeding. He is smooth feathered with a single comb. My kids really want to keep him, but I have to reduce the numbers. I'll take some pics today. This is him from a couple of months ago. His comb hadn't started growing yet. Now because it's grown, the crest pushes it over and makes it flop to the side like the one in your link.

 

[CackedNut]

CackedNut: just keep a look out for any signs of anything trying to get in, just like if you had a closed coop at night.

I check around the coop and run every morning and afternoon. We have only had the one "break in" attempt. I'm sure at some point there will be more, but we used heavy duty wire and it's completely enclosed.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Does anyone know what breed this is? I want one.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/818112/what-breed-could-my-roo-be

Its definitely mostly silkie but I wouldn't even try to guess the other side LOL the purple comb, feather legs and the streamers are from the silkie side. Anytime you cross up silkies x a regular feathered type you loose the double recessive genes it takes to produce the silky feather but a lot of the other stuff still comes through like the dark comb and they usually a kind a wonky type single comb like that one has they usually bring along the way over board broody tendencies too. Makes for good hatchers and mamas. My neighbor cousin has a bunch mostly black ones they keep her full on stock for sure.

Jeff

 

[NOLA Chicks]

Quote: I'm waaayyyyyy behind on posts but I just had to comment on this one! Too funny Terri (songster) and Julie (inspiration)!

 

[PrimroseMom1]

I check around the coop and run every morning and afternoon.  We have only had the one "break in" attempt.  I'm sure at some point there will be more, but we used heavy duty wire and it's completely enclosed.

IMHO. I did a lot of reading about predator proof coops (there's threads on BYC) and it seems that such a thing is hard to make, even requiring burying the sides down in the ground with cement trenches. Anyway, I decided on small lockable coops, nothing fancy that sleep 3-4 chickens each (I only put 3 in it). And they go in at night and roost and I lock them in and let them out in the morning. Sooner or later it seems something will get them if not locked up. My coops have very heavy liftable tops and recently read that someone with the same coop lose all theirs through the top (it's really heavy). The next day I nailed the tops down. JS