NY chicken lover!!!!

[AQHAchick22]

Our dog yard and the chicken run share a fence and after one of my hens and my Roo went flying over I added some fence around the top to make it taller. I just used some chicken wire and some small rods and added a few feet. Haven't had that problem again. Ended up doing it all around the whole chicken yard. Works great to keep them from flying over since I don't have a top to my run..It's just a fenced in area where all the coops are in.

I did the exact same thing. The problem for me is that the ramp out of the coop borders the fencing so I think if they get on the ramp they can get a bit higher and fly over. I need to raise the fence up even more with some chicken wire. It sounds like we have very similar set ups.

 

[rancher hicks]

Learning about hogs...or the oral report?

I don't know to much about them either, but I like to look things up.

The oral report. I started as I was taught to open with antidote. I told a story of how my mother and father bought a farm from a previous hog farmer. Seems he left the boar behind and they got out of the car the boar came running. My mother jumped in the car and locked all the doors leaving my father behind. He jumped onto the roof of the car and was yelling "open the door! open the door!". Being that I was shy I did it with a deadpan face which had the class roaring with laughter through my whole speech.

What I learned of hogs is that they are not really a dirty animal and will like a dog use the same corner to do there business in. Fact is, it seems to me that most animals are not dirty and smelly only when they're forced to live in the bathroom so to speak. After all in nature their waste gets washed away.

Arnold Ziffel was an indoor pig. Pigs can be trained to go outdoors just like a dog and less likely to chase the mailman.

Speaking of which, we were so poor we couldn't afford a dog, so we had to take turns biting the mailman.

 

[dragonlord483]

Had to wrangle 3 chicks back in today they figured out how to unthread the fence and made a hole so I zip tied it

 

[Pyxis]

I wish it would be sunny so I could get some good pictures of the foliage! It's absolutely gorgeous over here. I also need to get a picture of my poor molting birds. Honey has no tail feathers, Drone has one ridiculous one, Chickpea the Easter Egger is just losing hers left and right, and everyone else must by having a mild molt too because over the last few days I've been lucky to get one egg. And of course my new girl, the one that should be laying me up a storm, has taken to sleeping in the trees and laying who knows where, so that doesn't help a bit. The ducks are finishing up their molt so no eggs there either. And I am overrun with roosters that I cannot bring myself to part with. Drone and Honey stay, of course, and Truffle, my bantam cochin rooster who at the moment has no flock. Then there's Bones, the barred EE that I'm keeping around to make barred EE's with, and one other EE who I had been looking for a home for but he's matured and looks absolutely stunning, just like a phoenix, so of course now his name is Phoenix and he stays, ugh.

Anyway, if anyone close to me is looking to downsize for the winter, I could stand to add a few more hens and pullets to make up for all these darn roosters and to maybe actually get some eggs.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Speaking of which, we were so poor we couldn't afford a dog, so we had to take turns biting the mailman.

Do you still need egg cartons?

 

[boskelli1571]

Chased a skunk away from the gate last night .... any ideas on skunk management ?

I do NOT want sprayed - I am extra sensitive about that and can get literally sick to my stomach with that smell.

Don't know for sure, but I was told that if you have skunks living round by you, predators tend to stay away - sounds logical, so I guess they do have some benefits..... I don't know of any deterrent/management to keep skunks away other than trapping...........

 

[boskelli1571]

Ugh I'm sorry, my dogs are definitely the worst predator I have I have a very high fence separating the dogs from the chickens but once in awhile one will get over the fence. Luckily the last 2 to get over the fence have been fine (minus one that is just missing all her tail feathers now). Luckily my dogs are a great Pyrenees mix (very soft mouth) and a cattle dog mix who is very good with the "leave it" command.

Isn't that strange? I would expect a terrier to go after chickens, but not the Pyrenees' or the cattle dog. I have 2 Beagles who are very good with the birds. However, I wouldn't trust them with baby chicks....just too tempting. They are ok with the neighbors chickens/ducks too......

 

[Lynzi777]

Anyone have any ideas of a cheap way to make some rooster pens that I can keep outside near/at my chicken coop? I tried calling some True Value stores near by to see if they got their supplies in wooden shipping crates like my old hardware store did but they don't. I need to find a cheap way to do this but something durable as well.

 

[LuvMyChicks1491]

Anyone have any ideas of a cheap way to make some rooster pens that I can keep outside near/at my chicken coop? I tried calling some True Value stores near by to see if they got their supplies in wooden shipping crates like my old hardware store did but they don't. I need to find a cheap way to do this but something durable as well.

How about pallets. I have seen some neat coops that the make with pallets. Maybe you could come up with something using pallets?

 

[Lynzi777]

They're just to heavy and bulky. I made a wine rack outta one and it was such a pain. At least those crates were light. My cousin is going to text me a pic tomorrow of the ones they get in at the spring factory he works for. I'm hoping they're what I'm looking for.