- May 6, 2012
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Hi all,
New at raising chickens and I hope this site will give us some good advise on how to. All ready like all the coops some of them are real fun. We are working on ours. It's an old out side play house that we are getting for free. We are hauling it from about 60 - 70 mi away back to our house next weekend. Going to put it on 4-3' high 6x6. Then attach a 6x 12 run to it. Will post later how it turns out. Our first chicks arrive Thurs. Have our brooder ready. We are using a small kids swimming pool. Filled with pine shavings. Have 2-1qt waters and 1-1qt. feeders. Red heat lamp & thermometer. Anything else I need would be helpful to know. We a getting 2 of each kind: Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, White Rock, and Black Australorp. Raising 8 for eggs for now and if we like it we can get more next year.
New at raising chickens and I hope this site will give us some good advise on how to. All ready like all the coops some of them are real fun. We are working on ours. It's an old out side play house that we are getting for free. We are hauling it from about 60 - 70 mi away back to our house next weekend. Going to put it on 4-3' high 6x6. Then attach a 6x 12 run to it. Will post later how it turns out. Our first chicks arrive Thurs. Have our brooder ready. We are using a small kids swimming pool. Filled with pine shavings. Have 2-1qt waters and 1-1qt. feeders. Red heat lamp & thermometer. Anything else I need would be helpful to know. We a getting 2 of each kind: Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, White Rock, and Black Australorp. Raising 8 for eggs for now and if we like it we can get more next year.
