NY chicken lover!!!!

[miquwid]

Duane is so good with these chicks. Checking in to say goodnight to all. Been a few crazy weeks while I have been sick.

That is awesome! I hope you feel better!

 

[Gramma Chick]

So tomorrow I'm going to start my young leghorns introduction into the big coop. Should be interesting they are just too big to be with the silkies, my little buff orp will have to deal until she is big enough to join.

I got a 40lb bag of food grade DE for $20 at Tractor Supply um super excited.

Have a good nite!

Cool Score !
You might want to do the buff orp with the leghorns ? If you do her by herself she has no one to buddy with ? and she will definitely be picked on .she is already bonded with them Right ?

Duane is so good with these chicks. Checking in to say goodnight to all. Been a few crazy weeks while I have been sick.

Sorry to hear youve been sick ..glad your feeling better ...
Is the policemen still visiting your house daily?

 

[Lynzi777]

Duane is so good with these chicks. Checking in to say goodnight to all. Been a few crazy weeks while I have been sick.

He is so handsome! And HUGE looking next to those chicks! Lol nice that he's getting along with them though.

 

[rancher hicks]

love the pics - of chickens and coops ! thanks for sharing ....

I watched a fox CHEW through wire on my last coop - I was just watching as I had my gun ready & was curious - what a great lesson that was and as I was right there - no hens were in danger.

I am doing a hoop coop - but I am covering the entire thing in hardware cloth - fastened with washers to really tighten it down. I can't visualize just a tarp as a cover over the cattle panels - that is why I am putting the hardward cloth around ALL of it. Even the gap in the door is going to have a hardware cloth overhang that is screwed and washered in .... no paws are going to pull that out until age hits the wire.

Those weasles are my biggest fear - because I know they can shimmy into something I may not even have seen as a gap! buggers.

Nope, that would be crazy. Mine have hardware cloth over chicken wire, up two feet. Front and back are hardware cloth as are the doors. Nail in with U nails. In some places screws and washers.

But like I said if a pred is determined they will get in. Thing to do is check for areas they might be trying to breach. I do think young chicks peeping are an attraction so I've suggested a radio set for an all talk station.

 

[armorfirelady]

Duane is so good with these chicks. Checking in to say goodnight to all. Been a few crazy weeks while I have been sick.

This is a great picture. I love how he roosts next to them.

 

[stonykill]

............... I've suggested a radio set for an all talk station.

I have been doing this forever. I don't think it helps but I do it anyway. I can have talk radio on and catch a coon or possum in a trap near enough to hear the radio.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: I love Rock N Roll...talk radio is so boring ! If I am out & a radio is on ..its got to be music ...

 

[JLaw]

Just my 2 cents here and it seems all are doing it already. Do not use chicken wire alone under ground to keep out preds. This aint from chicken experience this is from NC learning.

I lived in nc after getting out of marines for a bit and our neighbor taught our Dachshund how to dig under the fence. I wish that kid never lived there. Any ways my boss at the shop said to dig down and L the wire into the yard then cover it. When the dog goes to dig his nails and paws will get in the wire and he will stop. Yeah that didn't work at all my dog dug under to the wire. He then chewed through the wire and went under the fence. He is a digging machine though. To this day at 8 years old he digs our yard all up he's always missing nails and this is just to get to moles that he never catches. Just think what a pred could do with smaller mouths sharper teeth and more reason to get in than my dog had to get out.

 

[County Boy]

Definitely I'm in Rochester so it would be when I'm on vacation and we can plan a fun trip for my son or in spring when we visit my son's big brother he's expecting a baby boy in March. He lives in Southern PA and on our way back we can stop by. I would like to think by then someone would have helped me move this coop. It has a reinforced bottom with hardward cloth and wood. it's Weather proof and predator proof. It's prefect for my delicate breeds like my silkies and brabanter.

Stony - that is very good information someone else in my in local chicken club was explaining that as well. I did reinforce the coop with hardware cloth, they get locked in the coop. I have to have a run to prove to the city that I don't let my chickens run free in my yard which I do anyways oh well. I can just say opps they got out. But you did mention the digging predators and I dug done and used hardware cloth and filled it in with rocks, all the way around. I want to eventually build it up some more with rocks.

Lynzi - She is beautiful my one silkie is too much of a pain in the but to bother catching much less bathing she good, my other silkie is always in the rain I made it so she is covered but hangs in the rain anyway. But they dust bath all the time so I don't worry.

So tomorrow I'm going to start my young leghorns introduction into the big coop. Should be interesting they are just too big to be with the silkies, my little buff orp will have to deal until she is big enough to join.

I got a 40lb bag of food grade DE for $20 at Tractor Supply um super excited.

Have a good nite!

Well- let me know when you are coming over my wa and I'll have something.

 

[Sally8]

I'm going to have to say that Silkies are more of pet than a chicken. If Thor had acted like a chicken, he'd have been with the rest of them instead of following me around and under the car and I WOULDN'T HAVE RUN OVER HIM!!!!! Survivors guilt , I'm still suffering.