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WindingRoad said:
I hope so. Maybe I should have waited until spring or summer. But the way it was; if I wanted to make cookies I had to have oatmeal for breakfast. Only getting 2 eggs a day. Yesterday, only one but today 2. Unfortunately, one was frozen. Again my fault. Gonna wear my muck boots to bed so I can hop right up and go out there before sunrise. LOL.
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I am down to only getting 0-3 eggs a day. I only have 6 laying hens. Well, let me rephrase.... I have 3 Australorps who lay decent in the winter. their egg laying drops a lil but not much. I have 2 Speckled Sussex pullets. One has yet to lay so it's looking like spring for her. The other SS stopped laying when the days got shorter. And I have a Welsummer pullet who has also stopped laying since the shorter days arrived. I also have a Welsummer cockerel.... lol, who, for obvious reasons, isn't laying. :lau:lau:lau
 
WindingRoad said:
No blood yet. I wonder what the Buff and NHRed will do when the Wyans start laying. Oh Boy.
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No blood now is great. Leave them to sort things out.
When the pullets start to lay, the older girls will accept them more. It's actually a good thing.
But your coop is a little small for that many chickens. If you have a secure run and leave the pop door open all the time, that will help with space issues.
 
MotherOfChickens said:
I am down to only getting 0-3 eggs a day. I only have 6 laying hens. Well, let me rephrase.... I have 3 Australorps who lay decent in the winter. their egg laying drops a lil but not much. I have 2 Speckled Sussex pullets. One has yet to lay so it's looking like spring for her. The other SS stopped laying when the days got shorter. And I have a Welsummer pullet who has also stopped laying since the shorter days arrived. I also have a Welsummer cockerel.... lol, who, for obvious reasons, isn't laying. :lau:lau:lau
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Ha Ha. When I was a kid we had a pet duck. Us kids thought it was a drake. So we named him Jake. He started laying eggs. We changed his name to Jacquline. Kennedy was in the White House at the time.
 
WindingRoad said:
Thank you. My two Wyans are not debeaked and they bite. Not hard. As soon as the realize my finger is not food they let go. They have improved though. Because when I first got them on Tuesday. They would sqwak so bad you'd think I was killing them when I picked them up. Sounded like I was strangling them. Now I can pick them up and just talk very quietly to them and stroke them and the are fine. I think they know I am feeding them so they are getting to know me. ??????
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When I got mine they would do the same when I came to the brooder they would run around like chickens with their heads cut off lol but soon they realized when I stuck my hands in there I was just changing feed water and checking their health making sure they were good and the settled down for the most part 4 of the five still didn’t like being picked up but there was one that practically jumped into my hands she is one of my favorites
 
DobieLover said:
No blood now is great. Leave them to sort things out.
When the pullets start to lay, the older girls will accept them more. It's actually a good thing.
But your coop is a little small for that many chickens. If you have a secure run and leave the pop door open all the time, that will help with space issues.
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My figures are estimates. I haven't measured. Their are 3 nest boxes up in the coop so I think they are ok. I want to make a shed this summer for them. Probably 8'x 8' feet. I will probably get some more hens. Might start selling some eggs then. I only want large eggs. I was buying fresh eggs here but the guy was putting like 9 small eggs per dozen. He had large eggs but he was also selling to a small country store here and so I think he put mostly large eggs in those. I would like 14 eggs a week. So I can have eggs for breakfast. I hate oatmeal almost as much as my birds. My coop is "rated" for 6 chickens. That's not gonna happen.
 
WindingRoad said:
My figures are estimates. I haven't measured. Their are 3 nest boxes up in the coop so I think they are ok. I want to make a shed this summer for them. Probably 8'x 8' feet. I will probably get some more hens. Might start selling some eggs then. I only want large eggs. I was buying fresh eggs here but the guy was putting like 9 small eggs per dozen. He had large eggs but he was also selling to a small country store here and so I think he put mostly large eggs in those. I would like 14 eggs a week. So I can have eggs for breakfast. I hate oatmeal almost as much as my birds. My coop is "rated" for 6 chickens. That's not gonna happen.
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That's the problem with the pre-fab coops. They are NEVER large enough to house what they print. Usually a third the number will fit but only if an additional run at a MINIMUM of 10 sq feet per bird is attached.
Take a look on Craigslist for used sheds. Sometimes you can find one cheap. You would then have to find a shed moving company to move it for you. Incorporate that into the cost.
I will be converting my shed into a coop this spring myself. Always plan a larger coop than you think you will need. Chicken math is a real thing! It happened to me and I swore I wouldn't want more than 9 chickens. Ha!
 

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