- Apr 21, 2014
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Good morning all,
Name is Paul, from Lisbon falls, Maine. Been thinking about getting backyard chickens for quite some time now but never actually took the leap until 2 weeks ago.
Wow how fast things have happened, I found BYC and a few other amazing resource sites, and have done a TON of learning from the sites and from talking to other local contacts that have chickens..
So in 2 weeks I have converted an old 6X8 storage shed into a coop with 6 nesting boxes 2 feed and water stations and a crap load of roosting poles.. have erected 150 feet of 6 foot fence on grass and into light woods for a run and rehomed 12 1st and 2nd year layers from a friends farm a few towns over.
It took the girls all of about 3 hours to make the place there own.. I was afraid they would be timid of me and or not want to come in the coop at night or a multitude of nightmares a newbie would have.
Well to my joy the facts where just the opposite, they loved there new home, a few went right to work building nests in the boxes out of the hay I had put in them, at dust just like clockwork they all came in and perched and went to sleep. By morning 2 they all went to work scratching up there new run.
To my immense joy I found my first 5 eggs that afternoon right in the nesting boxes, all is well with me and my girls LOL
If I see some reply's I will do my best to write at least a few times a week even daily if I get a following ???
I have tons to say and could write all day about my new found joy in life ( simple things for simple minds I guess) ha ha but don't want to babble if no one cares
Paul
Name is Paul, from Lisbon falls, Maine. Been thinking about getting backyard chickens for quite some time now but never actually took the leap until 2 weeks ago.
Wow how fast things have happened, I found BYC and a few other amazing resource sites, and have done a TON of learning from the sites and from talking to other local contacts that have chickens..
So in 2 weeks I have converted an old 6X8 storage shed into a coop with 6 nesting boxes 2 feed and water stations and a crap load of roosting poles.. have erected 150 feet of 6 foot fence on grass and into light woods for a run and rehomed 12 1st and 2nd year layers from a friends farm a few towns over.
It took the girls all of about 3 hours to make the place there own.. I was afraid they would be timid of me and or not want to come in the coop at night or a multitude of nightmares a newbie would have.
Well to my joy the facts where just the opposite, they loved there new home, a few went right to work building nests in the boxes out of the hay I had put in them, at dust just like clockwork they all came in and perched and went to sleep. By morning 2 they all went to work scratching up there new run.
To my immense joy I found my first 5 eggs that afternoon right in the nesting boxes, all is well with me and my girls LOL
If I see some reply's I will do my best to write at least a few times a week even daily if I get a following ???
I have tons to say and could write all day about my new found joy in life ( simple things for simple minds I guess) ha ha but don't want to babble if no one cares
Paul