Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Outdoorlover]

Thank you for all those suggestions, aart, I appreciate all the help that I'm getting on here!

Now I need a different suggestion: where on BYC should I post, to find the few English O. chicks that I'm looking for? I would like to find them within a couple of hours driving

Thank you!

 

[aart]

Thank you for all those suggestions, aart, I appreciate all the help that I'm getting on here!

Now I need a different suggestion: where on BYC should I post, to find the few English O. chicks that I'm looking for? I would like to find them within a couple of hours driving

Thank you!

That's gonna be a toughy...I'd start with the breed threads.
This'll get you started:
Advanced search>titles only>English Orpington

 

[Outdoorlover]

Thank you!

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Haven't had power since Wednesday... least I have no eggs in the incubator.
Hope everyone is doing all right.

 

[Outdoorlover]

I feel so bad for those who lost power! ):

 

[bigmrg74]

Hi everyone,
My coop is in the drawing stage, we've been spending a lot of time researching and viewing the Gallery to get an idea on what exactly we need to have in the hen house (ventilation, nesting boxes...), the run, and to learn the different things we can do for predator control.
I was wondering if there is something else that we should take into consideration...perhaps you guys have suggestions on how to better insulate or ventilate the hen house based on our climate than what we can learn from viewing pics?

Heating or not heating the coop, where do you guys stand on that?

Thank you!

Half inch hardware cloth! The holes in it are small enough that small critters like weasels can't go through it, and overall tough enough to resist a large dog or a coyote for quite a while. perfect for blocking off any and all possible accesses to your coop for super smart predators like Raccoons, who only need a small gap to get in and murder your flock. attaching it you can staple it down, but to really lock it down you would want screws and washers. If you wanna be fancy you could use bottle caps.

This here is a mouse that got stuck in the hardware cloth on my hoop coop. Poor little guy got halfway through and couldn't get himself in or out at that point, and it was up enough that the girls couldn't get at him.

 

[Outdoorlover]

Got it! Thank you, big!

 

[bigmrg74]

Got it! Thank you, big!

Its expensive, but worth every penny when you know that there's hungry critters out there that would love to turn your girls into a meal.

 

[Outdoorlover]

Believe me I'm with you on that! I live on 4 acres, I'm pretty sure I have a fox den on my property, among the rest of the predators mentioned above....lol I love all Nature, but I wish it wasn't so close to my chickens

Drawing of the coop is almost done and I only found 2 chicks so far: a Black E.Orpington and a Blue E.Orpington, I wonder if it's so hard to find breeders, cause people are still out of power and offline.

 

[aart]

This here is a mouse that got stuck in the hardware cloth on my hoop coop. Poor little guy got halfway through and couldn't get himself in or out at that point, and it was up enough that the girls couldn't get at him.

Whoaa!!
That must not have been fun to clear out.