"My house became a chicken coop. How did this happen!"

[Greendecember]

Last night I heard my Husband in the other room say to himself "My house became a chicken coop. How did this happen!"

I tried VERY hard not to laugh.

You see, we are still working on the house we recently bought. The laundry room is still devoid of the washer and dryer. So come chick brooding time I put the brooders in there. the temps outside were still dipping bellow freezing and it was a better choice for climate control than the garage which we used last year.

That was all well and good until they flew the brooders. I had not finished the lids in time and about the same time my Mom fell and we had to move her in with us (still in progress) so the new coop got put on the back burner.

NOT my brightest moment but I had to do something in a pinch. They had outgrown the brooders but were not big enough to be put out in the coop with the other birds. Add to the fact the current coop just is no big enough for the new additions. I opened a bag of wood shavings and spread them over the floor a few inches deep.

Yes, the chicks have their own bedroom IN the house!!

What crazy concessions have you made during chick raising season?

I know one I WILL NOT

be doing again! This is gonna be a MESS to clean up. Thank you lord for bleach and vinegar!

 

[galanie]

Add to the funny story the fact that talking to ourselves like that is almost a family trait around here - I can totally see one of us saying that and yes... I'd have laughed out loud!

 

[shelleyd2008]

You could say my chicks have their own room. The spare bedroom on average has at least 3 brooders. Right now I believe there are 5. Add to that the 15 button quail cages and 2 incubators and my son calls it the 'baby chicken bedroom'

 

[lovin'6chicks]

This is hilarious! We had to make our chicks a bedroom in a section of our garage last year because we got chicks BEFORE we built the coop. Needless to say, this year we built a tractor for the new little ones before we got them. You make do with what works, then learn from the experience.

 

[mdbokc]

Our second bathroom becomes the chicken home (only for a few weeks) until they outgrow the big box brooder and go onto the closed in patio, 4'x8' enclosure, (again for a few weeks) until transfer to their coop and run beside the big girls....then assimilation...resistance is futile.

 

[Greendecember]

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resistance is futile

 

[Greendecember]

WHEW! It is good to know I am not the only one. I feel a tiny bit less insane now haha

 

[gertiie]

I share my spare bedroom, which after all the kids moved out became the computer room, with my babies !
Needed to do that to keep my 2 Jack Russells and cat away from them, during the day while I am at work.
They ( dogs and cat) are only allowed in there while I am on the computer. And after this morning I am going to
have to keep my eye on that situation too ! LOL

She is SO busted !

 

[suzeqf]

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your kitty is very pretty and so are you chicks, my coop is the shop and when we got the first group back in march and who are now 7 weeks old my huby said he would have plenty of time to get the coop done but the weather has not been behaving and my hubby has been working quite a bit so i still don't have a coop so i've just gotten bigger boxes and joined them together to make a chickie apartment bulding complete with kitchen and rooftop patio to watch the neighbors next door

 

[menageriefarms]

Ok I'm new here but I can jump on this band wagon...lol. In my master bathroom I have a garden tub that I use as a brooder for the little ones. I just tossed the Geese out of it and got it back to normal and then the kids went to TS and got chicks, so guess what is fulled up again..LoL. Good thing I take showeres huh.