Alaskan Chicken QBJudie
In the Brooder
- Apr 18, 2020
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Started with chickens 28 years ago. Took a break when my son was a baby but he's 21years olf next month and we've been raising chicken together since he was 7 or eight. (He won't even let me sell off extra
roosters who hatch in our coop by the time we know they are boys, we already have a bond...ok me too I guess! damn can't blame the rugrat)
They are our spoiled pets.
Currently we have two coops. One for the Millie DeFlures
& Silkies (their coop has the chandlier) And the big girls (Easter eggers & some of the 5 year olds that were weirdo back yard breed mixed with polish) have a big Chevy van (that's all completely carpeted wall, ceiling & floors I added a egg hutch at the back doors took out the small back window for a entrance and then equipped it with 2 big 8 feet long roosts).
I don't like killing chickens so if I hatch them i keep them even if they look strange. Once they get too old to lay eggs they still are welcome to stay. I had my first Ameracauna hen for over 7 years. And my first Mille DeFlure duccle lasted 6 years.
The girls in the van get to free range all over our property. They've got 4 acres to play on but they usually stay within the acre right around their coop. I started using the van 5 years ago after one bad Alaskan winter where it got so stinking cold my birds got frostbite. My coop was too big for the heat to stay around them. I gotta say it's much easier to clean up the chicken poop come spring. I just pull wheelbarrow up next to side door / open / rake it in.....no more shoveling and once I'm done garden hose out the carpet.
roosters who hatch in our coop by the time we know they are boys, we already have a bond...ok me too I guess! damn can't blame the rugrat)They are our spoiled pets.
Currently we have two coops. One for the Millie DeFlures
I don't like killing chickens so if I hatch them i keep them even if they look strange. Once they get too old to lay eggs they still are welcome to stay. I had my first Ameracauna hen for over 7 years. And my first Mille DeFlure duccle lasted 6 years.
The girls in the van get to free range all over our property. They've got 4 acres to play on but they usually stay within the acre right around their coop. I started using the van 5 years ago after one bad Alaskan winter where it got so stinking cold my birds got frostbite. My coop was too big for the heat to stay around them. I gotta say it's much easier to clean up the chicken poop come spring. I just pull wheelbarrow up next to side door / open / rake it in.....no more shoveling and once I'm done garden hose out the carpet.
