NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

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Well I have thought of knitting little hats for the roos but not sure they'd stay on. Mud and dirt are one thing about white birds and I suspect that's why some floks do't wnat thme. I'm gettiog tired of back trackng to fix my spelling.

THere's something wrong with your spelling?

 

[Henicillin]

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they are beautiful in pictures!!

Oh, they're gorgeous!

 

[Henicillin]

So, get this, y'all. DH spoke to both nearby neighbors this evening and told them we were going to ship the extra roos and my dominant Polish roo to auction this weekend, so things would be a bit quieter around here (he's back to "I don't want to process them," so I told him that they needed to go to Schuylerville or I'd do it alone

). Both of them wanted to know why, as they LIKE the roos. Apparently, because they're locked up in the coop until a reasonable hour and thus don't wake anybody up, nobody cares if they're there and they crow during the day. One of them (to whom DH brought some eggs - the guy is THRILLED!) said, "Your dominant boy has a good set of lungs on him, but I don't care - he's not doing it at 4 AM, and he can crow all he likes in the daytime. I can't even hear the other ones." The other one said that they hear them as background noise, but they don't bother them at all, and their kids LOVE them. Go figure.

The dude across the street has a couple of his own roos, and the people way the heck down in back have chickens as well and think ours are great, so I guess it's all good.

This is the primary reason why I've been stressing out like mad over them lately, because I was absolutely certain that they were driving everyone ELSE crazy. Apparently not, so they get yet another reprieve. I do want to hatch WCBP/Salmon Faverolle chicks in the spring, just to see what I get, so I'm actually glad that Leopold only drives me batty, the noisy, crazy-haired little creep. I'm attached to the goofy thing.

 

[Cass]

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So glad your neighbors like your roos. Now you can stop stressing over the noise.

If you decide to process them yourself, let me know, ray and I will come over and help you out. (I'll bring one of my own to do at the same time, cuz he is making me NUTS but it's too much of a mess to set up to process just one roo)

 

[happycountryhens]

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I love how you dual purpose all your buildings (and fences). Never thought of using the chicken coop as a greenhouse also. BTW love your pics. The hoop coop is great.

Henicillin: Happy for you that you can keep all your roos. Sometimes things just work out.

Vasaline worked well for my flock last year. We have no insulation and good ventilation. The floor of the coop in my avitar is dusted with snow from a fierce nor'easter we had last winter. Doris did fine.

 

[stonykill]

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that is a great setup! You are making things easy on yourself. That is always a good thing. I saw a similar setup in Mother earth news and liked it, but your looks even better. I need to make a chicken hoop house

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

If I set up my coop as a greenhouse too, the chickens would say "Yippee a buffet!"

 

[Cass]

Tab's chicken obsession :

If I set up my coop as a greenhouse too, the chickens would say "Yippee a buffet!"

Mine too. They discovered my garden after I had pulled all the plants and spent days eating the little things that fell off the plants; green tomatoes, small cucs and such. I can't imagine what they would do with fresh, young seedlings.​

 

[In His Service]

Tab's chicken obsession :

If I set up my coop as a greenhouse too, the chickens would say "Yippee a buffet!"

I plan to use it as a greenhouse when not using it as a coop...​

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

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I plan to use it as a greenhouse when not using it as a coop...

It's a great idea! Someday I would like to build a small greenhouse, but for now there are too many other things we need to pay for.

I can't keep the chickens out of my flower beds around the house. They scratch everything to bits. They are good at turning the compost pile over though.