NY chicken lover!!!!

[tgrlily]

I have to open the bator & spring some chicks.

It looks like a WHO concert in there with chicks getting stepped on & squashed against the bator door!!! I think I can even hear Baba O'Reilly!

Now I'm gonna have to name the cuckoo silkies after The Who............. The chaos must be all their fault!!!

 

[Cass]

Thank you all for the tips. If only I could convince my Master Builder to accept something less than perfect. Not square? He'll have NONE of that. Windows that just pull up? Nope. Gotta be double hung with screens (which we owned, but have to be framed in exactly like a house). He even leveled up the roof rafters cuz one of them was off by a little more than 1/2 inch.

It's gonna be draft free, that's for sure. Not insulated, but ventalation enough for twice the number of birds it's gonna hold.

Doors? They have to match the rest of the buildings on the property...tongue and groove. (I did finally convince him to buy that lumber not custom make it to match EXACTLY)

It'll get done. Just not as soon as I would like. Which would have been LAST WEEK.

 

[featherz]

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Wow, can you have him come to our house? We just kinda kept pushing things until they'd fit together. I'd LOVE to have something that nice.

We are trying to build one more coop out of a huge run in on the back of the property and I'd love the advice.

 

[Cass]

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Wow, can you have him come to our house? We just kinda kept pushing things until they'd fit together. I'd LOVE to have something that nice.

We are trying to build one more coop out of a huge run in on the back of the property and I'd love the advice.

I'll bring him with me to get the chickens. Sincerely he is a "Master Builder". Built his first wife a HOUSE, from the sill up. (He didn't pour the foundation, a friend did that)

Ever see an Amish Barn raising? That's how we did the walls. 2 of us pushed up an 12'x8 foot wall. AMAZING. To get stuff up to the roof? He nailed a piece of 2x4 to another piece, nailed to wall and set the plywood on it. All I had to do was push it up from 3 feet off ground and he grabbed it from the top. Truely an amazing man. Or experienced. But either way, He's building me Cluckingham Palace for my girls.

 

[featherz]

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Wow, I'll be embarassed for him to see ours. but to be fair, my husband had never built a thing ever - he's a computer programmer.

And we did OK with what we had especially since I just said 'honey, I need a coop and it's gotta have this and this and this'...

If our walls weren't square, we just got out the rubber mallet and pounded until they were. Hee hee. The horse run in is huge and we're going to add a front wall and door to it soon so I'll have a place to put all these new babies. Just don't get my DH started on talking about how he wants to build survival bunkers.

 

[tgrlily]

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HAHAHAHAHA
I didn't know my husband had a BROTHER!

That first coop has double hung windows, a 15 light wood & glass door, metal roofing that matches the pole barn, fiberglass insulation in the walls, foam insulation in the roof, a ridiculous amount of roosts, perfect & attractive ventilation that can be controlled --- AND it's all built on a trailer so he can move it around! It's an 8x10 chicken tractor!

Seemed to take forever to build.

I was NOT gonna wait that long for a silkie coop, so I found a playhouse on CL. If practically KILLED him to help me renovate it & he hates the thing! LOL But it got done nice & fast!! Doesn't help that I refused to use "barn red" & opted for lavender paint with white trim.

He's a good man & I make him crazy. He still wants to paint it red.

The second silkie coop he took the few ideas that he liked from the playhouse coop and combined them with his amazing carpentry skills. It's 4x8, no wasted lumber, salvaged windows like I mentioned before & raised so they can have some shade & a place to hide from the hawks. I like to think that my "forcing the issue" with the playhouse coop was very beneficial to him!

He built it really fast, too.

I intend to make a hoop house --- just me & Noah. DH doesn't like the idea, but he's not ready to build me another coop yet. I need another one & this seems like the easiest & least expensive thing for me to do. Guess I'd better get over my irrational fear of power tools!

 

[marquisella]

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Thanks, I can't wait to start my flock...I'm in Vernon.

Trisha got a trio as well, pics ?

Sue

 

[Sebrightmom]

I am trying to find Rick Hare. I hope it is ok to post here. I was told he was from NY. Do any of you know how to contact him? I tried to do an interest search and couldn't find a website for him.

Thank you!

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

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Yes, I did. Rick Hare from Buffalo. He is an APA judge as well.
When he shows his slws, he usually wins bis.

[email protected] His email.

Sue

Here's an earlier post.

 

[Sebrightmom]

Thank you!