- Jul 20, 2008
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It's amasing what you can do with a pile of wood.
Just getting started. Hot day, needed a temporary roof.
Up to this point I had a shed plan to work with, now I need to start the brain gears working for the "coop" Parts.
Here's the big picture, the run is on the left. You can see my meaties in the tractor out back.
The nest boxes are made out of Bean Crates set on 2x4's screwed to the wall.
Roosts fold up for easy cleaning. At this point everything looked so clean and nice, put alittle stain on the paneling and I'd live in there.
I moved the chickens in on Monday and had my first 2 eggs by the end of the day. OK I did adopt eleven 1 year olds from a friend so I guess I cheated a little bit.
I processed my meaties on Tuesday (yum) 45 birds 358 lbs in my freezer WOW their like little turkeys
My crazy timeline:
8/4 decided to do meat chickens
8/5 at Menards buying lumber for an 8 x 16 meat tractor
8/21 meat chicks arrive (50)
8/24 a friend wants me to take 11 of his older laying hens so...
8/26 at Menards buying lumber for chicken coop (and the meat tractors not even finished yet)
Building such a big coop those 11 might be lonely so...
9/11 My order of little day old layers arrive (25)
Back to Menards so many times for this that and the other thing I can't even remember the dates.
Finished the meat tractor the day they moved in.
95% finished on the coop when they HAD to move in (hope they don't mind me finishing it while their in it, I think they like the company.)
AND while all that is going on, I run a 40 acre produce farm open 7 days a week and do 3 additional weekly farmers markets.
AND I breed Airedale terriers so I had a litter of those little guys to care for.
I'm so glad it's almost November so I can hibernate till the Spring planting season starts.
Goodnight....
Just getting started. Hot day, needed a temporary roof.
Up to this point I had a shed plan to work with, now I need to start the brain gears working for the "coop" Parts.
Here's the big picture, the run is on the left. You can see my meaties in the tractor out back.
The nest boxes are made out of Bean Crates set on 2x4's screwed to the wall.
Roosts fold up for easy cleaning. At this point everything looked so clean and nice, put alittle stain on the paneling and I'd live in there.
I moved the chickens in on Monday and had my first 2 eggs by the end of the day. OK I did adopt eleven 1 year olds from a friend so I guess I cheated a little bit.
I processed my meaties on Tuesday (yum) 45 birds 358 lbs in my freezer WOW their like little turkeys
My crazy timeline:
8/4 decided to do meat chickens
8/5 at Menards buying lumber for an 8 x 16 meat tractor
8/21 meat chicks arrive (50)
8/24 a friend wants me to take 11 of his older laying hens so...
8/26 at Menards buying lumber for chicken coop (and the meat tractors not even finished yet)
Building such a big coop those 11 might be lonely so...
9/11 My order of little day old layers arrive (25)
Back to Menards so many times for this that and the other thing I can't even remember the dates.
Finished the meat tractor the day they moved in.
95% finished on the coop when they HAD to move in (hope they don't mind me finishing it while their in it, I think they like the company.)
AND while all that is going on, I run a 40 acre produce farm open 7 days a week and do 3 additional weekly farmers markets.
AND I breed Airedale terriers so I had a litter of those little guys to care for.
I'm so glad it's almost November so I can hibernate till the Spring planting season starts.
Goodnight....
