maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

[quailyroo]

im sure if I scratch around on BYC long enough i'll be bound to find one

there seems to be everything on here!

 

[wolfandfinch]

the chicken class was REALLY popular. They covered:

breeds, best breed to buy for what
coop basics
city bylaws and regulations
how to care for them (feed, where to buy it, water, etc.)
what to expect in terms of eggs, deaths and responsibility


I would do a series, if I had the knowledge:

Chickens 101: getting set up (breeds, building a coop and run, city bylaws)
Chickens 201: maintenance (how to care for them, what to expect, disease, how to make them more productive, chicken gardens, treats etc)
Chickens 301: breeding or selling eggs (how to feritlize, breed etc., or how to sell fertilized eggs or newborn chicks, or how to sell eggs to eat etc - ie how to make money/ make it a business)


If you go and do this please send me your class materials as a thanks for the brilliant ideas, so I can learn from afar

HAHA

 

[BrattishTaz]

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You are assuming I know more than you. I am learning as I go. My birds would never have made it if is was not for the info on BYC. Maybe I will just have one class and charge $20 each to give them BYC's web address.

I could take one of my roos to show the class, "This is a rooster."

 

[quailyroo]

heheheh -

perhaps , if it is aimed at city folk , you had better take along a turkey/goose/duck


...this is a chicken....

this is a turkey...a goose...a duck ... - they are NOT chicken.


best to start with the basic isnt it??

 

[BrattishTaz]

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Good idea but I don't have a goose, a duck, OR a turkey.

I guess I could have flash cards.

 

[quailyroo]

hmm - I hear they can do great thing with little dog dress ups?? atleast our next door neighbours chihuahua is currently attempting to disguise himself as a bumble bee ...hehehe,

 

[BrattishTaz]

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Will a cat work? I don't have a dog either.

 

[quailyroo]

who knows - perhaps a rooster in disguise

although it might be alittle damaged to his sense of rooster-ness