Duckfarmer1
Crowing
Wish it could be that easy..put up a little sign, and the cockerels would stay out of the pullets nesting boxes...hmmm....
Today we made the boxes that everyone in our last ongoing thread about new eggs..sais I should have my boxes ready. Well I have 2 15 weeks pullets and 5 cockerels. They are NHR.. I personally don’t think they are anywhere near ready..no red combs..no squatting...etc...but perhaps I’m wrong. I told Chris we only needed two boxes but he came back with plans for 6 ...so we went for it...lol...ridiculous..,but, when we get spring chicks...
So, now it’s in. It’s actually in the coop..our other one, for the adult chickens is attached to the back..they go up a ladder or fly up into a rectangle and then There’s a long hallway With 8 boxes. The new one is in the coop...six boxes, there’s a ledge but no wall to enclose the boxes...we might have to do theater..I’m asking for opinions.....so then the ledge would be a hallway and the boxes.
In the other coop..Spike, our BR rooster, goes in from time to time to check things out but never disturbs the nest boxes. Plus..very very rarely have I ever had poop on the hallway..they are very clean in there.
I’m sure this will not be the case with the pullets and cockerels..first, those guys shouldn’t even be in there..even if we enclose it..they can still go in....plus they won’t know what it is...they loved it while we were putting it in...but ...we’ll...if they poop in it now..how do I stop them and research them the right behavior?
Today we made the boxes that everyone in our last ongoing thread about new eggs..sais I should have my boxes ready. Well I have 2 15 weeks pullets and 5 cockerels. They are NHR.. I personally don’t think they are anywhere near ready..no red combs..no squatting...etc...but perhaps I’m wrong. I told Chris we only needed two boxes but he came back with plans for 6 ...so we went for it...lol...ridiculous..,but, when we get spring chicks...
So, now it’s in. It’s actually in the coop..our other one, for the adult chickens is attached to the back..they go up a ladder or fly up into a rectangle and then There’s a long hallway With 8 boxes. The new one is in the coop...six boxes, there’s a ledge but no wall to enclose the boxes...we might have to do theater..I’m asking for opinions.....so then the ledge would be a hallway and the boxes.
In the other coop..Spike, our BR rooster, goes in from time to time to check things out but never disturbs the nest boxes. Plus..very very rarely have I ever had poop on the hallway..they are very clean in there.
I’m sure this will not be the case with the pullets and cockerels..first, those guys shouldn’t even be in there..even if we enclose it..they can still go in....plus they won’t know what it is...they loved it while we were putting it in...but ...we’ll...if they poop in it now..how do I stop them and research them the right behavior?