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

[ginger c.]

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You will get more answers if you start a new thread.

Only 2? You don't know your chicken math, do you?
They have wings, so it can be any time. How tall are the brooder walls? How big are they now? When will it warm up by you?

I'm guessing I don't know chicken math. I have a scratch pad though.

What's wrong with only getting 2? They're sexed & supposed to both be pullets.

We're in Alabama. Right now the days are 75-85 and the nights are 65-70. By next month it will probably be at least 75 at night. We're going to get them this weekend. At that point they'll be about 1-2 weeks old.

The walls are about 20-24 inches high.

Thanks in advance for extra help.

 

[quetsweyo]

There is nothing at all wrong with raising babies in the house. Safer, more convenient and fun. I cbn listen to the tv and go in the spare bedroom and spend quality time with my peeps. PotPie flapped all the way up on top of my head last night, beats anything on tv. Q, chik-cocierge

 

[fifenashia]

We were building our coop when I brought babies home and it was done nearly in time! So we moved from a rubbermaid container in our spare bedroom to.....

A soft sided kiddie pool stapled to the walls on 2 sides and an old bedroom set for the 3rd side!!! That room has NEVER been the same since!

My husband used to say all the time that we lived in a chicken coop!!!!! Now I have 3 new babies in the rubbermaid and this time the coop is ready and waiting with other hens already down there, so hopefully they won't take over quite as bad this time!

 

[ginger c.]

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yes bleach and vinegar are great inventions!!!

 

[Yvonne37894]

Our chick raising has taken over the house. They own us.
Spare bedroom is the brooder, no less then 4 storage tubs(sometimes 6) thats over 100 chicks, 2-4 heat lamps going all the time.
The dinning room is incubators and hatchers
I can here the new one as they come out of the eggs while I'm watcheing TV
much better watching then the TV

 

[Greendecember]

Hello Ladies and gents. Sorry I have been absent but I caught up on all your posts. Crazy loves company too! Thanks for sharing!! Some FUNNY Stories! Our chicks moved into their new coop this week. The laundry room is ALMOST human grade again. Just some final cleaning and moving the washer / dryer in and we are ready to go

We are doing deep litter so the coop has no floor. We free range our birds also so it won't be long before the chicks are allowed out with the big birds. Ok so the chicks aren't so little any more and that Bani is DEFIANTLY a rooster! It sounds like teen age boys voices cracking any time the roosters try to crow. SO cute! Anyhow, we let the chicks eat down the grass and scratch for bugs in the coop until yesterday when I started adding shavings to the floor of their 12' x 12' chick mansion. They seem to be VERY happy with their new digs and hubby is happy to MOSTLY have his house back LOL

 

[couponsaver47]

I'm glad I'm not the only hubby that thinks he lives in a chicken coop. We have raised chicks in one of our bedrooms for 3yrs now. Every time we finally get them outside I say, "NEVER AGAIN IN THE HOUSE!!" What happens? Every spring we go buy 25-50 chicks!!

Always kept them in rubbermaid tubs & they'd fly out within a couple weeks & make a mess. This year, I told wife, NO WAY. I put my foot down. I said NO WAY & went down to the feed store & ordered 25 Buff Orps & 1 mallard male.

Got them the next morning. Ended up with my 25 B.O. 3 others that I don't know, & 2 ducks.

Guess I showed my wife who is boss.

Now, at least I got smart this time. Instead of the tubs, I brought in a horse trough that's been laying outside since we moved here. Actually I think it's a big old plastic truck bed liner but was told differently. It is 7ft long by 5ft. wide by 18in. tall.. Yep, I showed my wife who is boss.

 

[Greendecember]

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Oh ya! you showed her alright.

you showed her you are wrapped around her little finger just like my hubby

but we will still let you THINK you showed us cuse we love you lots

 

[RaZ]

I finally moved the last brooder out to the garage a few days ago. They are about 4 weeks old now. The 9=week olds have been out for several weeks and are mostly well behaved in the yard except for the nosy roo who wants what the little chicks are eating. He climbs the fence to get into their pen.

The 5 ducks are also outside and free range with the big chicks.

So my house is no longer a chicken coop....my garage is!

 

[ChicksterJo]

I've had to keep changing my chicks' brooders because they kept trying to fly over the one they were in (although it was bigger than the one they used to be in). They just want to fly over to me when I'm in the room, and since there's carpet in that bedroom I don't let them loose for too long or else I'd have a big (wet) mess on my hands, literally!