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Re: New Guy looking for some info....Good morning said Roger the rooster
)...Thanks for all the inputs!
Well, spent Friday night into Saturday morning up again on Saturday early working on coop , got Chickens late afternoon Saturday, worked on run Sunday...sit down Sunday evening and looked at our work....Wew...
Everything is going great, the kids LOVE our new friends...No egg yet, well see if we got a laying hen or not ????
Both Roger (the rooster) and Tilly (the hen) are Very friendly, and seem to be adjusting well to their new home, my Lil' Flower (wife) is happy....and we all know when Momma's happy the family happy ;o)...
As far as the Mercury light causing any problems with roosting....everything seems to be fine.
I do try and need to keep Tilly and Roger separate...He seems to have quite an eye for Tilly ;o)...
Right now I can control there exposure to each other by use of the 2 chicken doors out of the coop, but only one at a time can be in the run; I do plan on giving them their own run soon...
Anyway thanks for being here, I'm sure I'll have more questions / comments along the way.
Pretty funny though...I over heard my 4yr old daughter talking with my 6 yr old son...She was asking when they thought Mom and dad were going to get a pony..!!!....So..... Who knows....? The wife flat out asked me when we think we could make ANOTHER coop for the meat chickens.
I plan on posting photos once I figure out how.
Thanks again the New Guy, Rick
p.s. we still plan on getting chicks...may be from the Easter Bunny....?
Re: New Guy looking for some info....Good morning said Roger the rooster

Well, spent Friday night into Saturday morning up again on Saturday early working on coop , got Chickens late afternoon Saturday, worked on run Sunday...sit down Sunday evening and looked at our work....Wew...
Everything is going great, the kids LOVE our new friends...No egg yet, well see if we got a laying hen or not ????
Both Roger (the rooster) and Tilly (the hen) are Very friendly, and seem to be adjusting well to their new home, my Lil' Flower (wife) is happy....and we all know when Momma's happy the family happy ;o)...
As far as the Mercury light causing any problems with roosting....everything seems to be fine.
I do try and need to keep Tilly and Roger separate...He seems to have quite an eye for Tilly ;o)...
Right now I can control there exposure to each other by use of the 2 chicken doors out of the coop, but only one at a time can be in the run; I do plan on giving them their own run soon...
Anyway thanks for being here, I'm sure I'll have more questions / comments along the way.
Pretty funny though...I over heard my 4yr old daughter talking with my 6 yr old son...She was asking when they thought Mom and dad were going to get a pony..!!!....So..... Who knows....? The wife flat out asked me when we think we could make ANOTHER coop for the meat chickens.
I plan on posting photos once I figure out how.
Thanks again the New Guy, Rick
p.s. we still plan on getting chicks...may be from the Easter Bunny....?