Oh dang! I would love to go since I need a new feeder and waterer, and maybe other chicken type stuff... But I have to take a class on Saturday from eight to two. Major sad face!!!!!
Nevadans?
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Hey ya'll!!! How 'bout this weather, can't make up it's mind...
Sunny, Laceynoelle, and Genny - I have a very good friend (who is also my neighbor) who is looking for some pullets/chicks - not sure. She is going to come on here to see if ya'll have anything she could buy - I think she is only looking for 3 birds. She just built her coop & is very excited!
I put in an attic vent in my coop. It is on the west wall. It allows for ventilation but no drafts. My roosts are in front of it. Do you think I should cover all or part of it for the winter? I posted this on the coop building thread but didn't get a good answer. Can someone here help me? Here are the photos: The vent is 24"x30"
Thanks!
Sunny, Laceynoelle, and Genny - I have a very good friend (who is also my neighbor) who is looking for some pullets/chicks - not sure. She is going to come on here to see if ya'll have anything she could buy - I think she is only looking for 3 birds. She just built her coop & is very excited!
I put in an attic vent in my coop. It is on the west wall. It allows for ventilation but no drafts. My roosts are in front of it. Do you think I should cover all or part of it for the winter? I posted this on the coop building thread but didn't get a good answer. Can someone here help me? Here are the photos: The vent is 24"x30"
Thanks!
oh my gosh, sparks...thats a gorgeous coop! sorry, cant help with the vetalation thing too well, but id say leave it uncovered...
i am also looking for an honest opinion...
i FINALLY got an e-mail from someone answering my cl post for pearl and darla. he said he lives all the way out past red rock and has a petting zoo. i told him that i would prefer to drop off the chickens, so i can have peace of mind about where they are going and how happy theyd be. he then e-mailed me back and said i couldnt drop them off because he was leaving for tahoe tomorrow (said he runs the northstar stables there) and that he would just come pick them up on sunday.
im sure that sounds perfect BUTTTTT,
i am now realizing that this is the same person that tried to buy darla last time i had her on c.l. (before i decided she was too pathertic to rehome). i am wondering if he buys chickens to resell. i mean, i just found it weird that both times i put up pullets he responded right away. idk...im sad, haha.
*sigh* im so overrun, and i have a place pearl can go...they need a roo, but are overrun with hens so darla would have to stay behind. lol im begining to think me an darla are meant to be together!
i am also looking for an honest opinion...
i FINALLY got an e-mail from someone answering my cl post for pearl and darla. he said he lives all the way out past red rock and has a petting zoo. i told him that i would prefer to drop off the chickens, so i can have peace of mind about where they are going and how happy theyd be. he then e-mailed me back and said i couldnt drop them off because he was leaving for tahoe tomorrow (said he runs the northstar stables there) and that he would just come pick them up on sunday.
im sure that sounds perfect BUTTTTT,
i am now realizing that this is the same person that tried to buy darla last time i had her on c.l. (before i decided she was too pathertic to rehome). i am wondering if he buys chickens to resell. i mean, i just found it weird that both times i put up pullets he responded right away. idk...im sad, haha.
*sigh* im so overrun, and i have a place pearl can go...they need a roo, but are overrun with hens so darla would have to stay behind. lol im begining to think me an darla are meant to be together!
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Yeah, the cowboy boot and Stetson one is long gone. This one is on the old Hwy heading south out of Yakima. It's a "Teapot Dome" station - built during the Sinclair Oil Teapot Dome scandal.
There used to be one in Junction City, Oregon - I believe it was either a coffeepot or a teapot - I think it is now the Safeway parking lot; it's been gone for decades.
Yeah, the cowboy boot and Stetson one is long gone. This one is on the old Hwy heading south out of Yakima. It's a "Teapot Dome" station - built during the Sinclair Oil Teapot Dome scandal.
There used to be one in Junction City, Oregon - I believe it was either a coffeepot or a teapot - I think it is now the Safeway parking lot; it's been gone for decades.
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Yes, leave it. Ventilation is super important in winter too. There was an article last winter about this in the BYC newsletter that was really good. I wonder if you can do a search through past newsletters for it? They talked about how humid a coop can get when there's no ventilation and when freezing temps hit moist chickens... well it's definitely not a good thing!
Yes, leave it. Ventilation is super important in winter too. There was an article last winter about this in the BYC newsletter that was really good. I wonder if you can do a search through past newsletters for it? They talked about how humid a coop can get when there's no ventilation and when freezing temps hit moist chickens... well it's definitely not a good thing!
Hi yall! Wow, there are a lot of Nevada chicken people. How cool! I read back about 10 pages but I haven't had a chance to read all 203 pages yet!
I had banties when I was a kid, but just now got the chance to get back in to chickens. We just bought a place in Lemmon Valley and I promptly got 14 young Leghorns (I think?). They are dim bulbs but totally adorable. They range on my half-acre future horse paddock during the day and sleep in a coop at night - so far so good!
The coop is one "stall" of a horse run-in shelter, about 10x12. It has three solid sides and one open side, facing NE, that's just covered in wire fencing. Should I add some plywood to the bottom half of the open side for the winter? I don't want my little idiots to freeze in our gentle Nevada breezes.
I had banties when I was a kid, but just now got the chance to get back in to chickens. We just bought a place in Lemmon Valley and I promptly got 14 young Leghorns (I think?). They are dim bulbs but totally adorable. They range on my half-acre future horse paddock during the day and sleep in a coop at night - so far so good!
The coop is one "stall" of a horse run-in shelter, about 10x12. It has three solid sides and one open side, facing NE, that's just covered in wire fencing. Should I add some plywood to the bottom half of the open side for the winter? I don't want my little idiots to freeze in our gentle Nevada breezes.
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"Gentle Nevada breezes..."
Yes you should cover part way up the side that's open. I would cover all but about 10-12 inches of that side with hinged doors (that can be opened during the hot weather) and put an overhang above so rain doesn't get in. Your flock should be quite happy with that.
Also, welcome to the Nevada thread! Great to see more Nevada chicken folks here!
Yes you should cover part way up the side that's open. I would cover all but about 10-12 inches of that side with hinged doors (that can be opened during the hot weather) and put an overhang above so rain doesn't get in. Your flock should be quite happy with that.
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TV Update -
Fox 5 news here in Las Vegas had a brief new storythat featured our Cluck Coop Master Leslie, myself (Holly), and a few nameless people interviewed on the street. Funny how many of them thought chickens create odors. They are thinking of the battery dungeons of poo, I guess, recently making the news in the midwest. Check out the News 5 website www.kvvu.com for the video, you can see all my chickens and my son with my Delaware hen, Della. All they put in the story from me was my talk of how useful chicken poo is.
But the girls are famous now, and you saw them being put into the van from the Oquendo Veterinary Center where we will be training them to identify colors, shapes, and other behavior training using clickers (The idea being to train the people to use clickers).
I'll post the feature on youtube when I can - in the meantime, this weekend half my girls are at veterinary school and I have another 10 to caponize.
I'll post the feature on youtube when I can - in the meantime, this weekend half my girls are at veterinary school and I have another 10 to caponize.
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Not sure why the video isn't there yet, but I'm bugging the web producer, hoping it will show up soon.
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