OHio ~ Come on Buckeyes, let me know your out there!

[Katehodges2]

Hello from Columbus.
I have 5 girls, 2 weeks old, up in the spare bathroom.

 

[OHfarmerswife]

Hello from Columbus.
I have 5 girls, 2 weeks old, up in the spare bathroom.

Hello Columbus from Troy!
Expecting my broody's first hatch onThursday.....so excited!!!
Started with my first ever chickens last April....I am totally hooked!!!!!

Congrats on your new chickies!

 

[TheCrazyChick]

Toledo here.... Day 2 with my 6 chicks and so far so good....

Hello Toledo! I'm a Backyard Chicken person from Toledo also. Have a coop full right now with 2 laying, 7 about to lay any minute, and 6 more 2-3 week olds in my garage. Oh, and 40 eggs in the incubator. Yikes!

Welcome to BYC and best of luck with your 6 chicks. You'll be amazed at how fast they grow!

 

[mlaff]

Hello Toledo! I'm a Backyard Chicken person from Toledo also. Have a coop full right now with 2 laying, 7 about to lay any minute, and 6 more 2-3 week olds in my garage. Oh, and 40 eggs in the incubator. Yikes!

Welcome to BYC and best of luck with your 6 chicks. You'll be amazed at how fast they grow!

At least I'm not alone. Lol I'm starting all over due to all of my chickens being killed by a weasel, not a pretty sight at all. So far we have 3 showgirls, 4 silkies, and 2 silkie polish mixes. I'm picking up 3 sizzles Thursday and have 11 in lockdown. Not to mention ordering 10 more eggs today. They really are addicting.

Oh, we did make adjustments and took down the old coop. We are making the new coop this week and are going to make sure nothing can get in at all. This time I also have roosters to help with protection.

 

[TheCrazyChick]

At least I'm not alone. Lol I'm starting all over due to all of my chickens being killed by a weasel, not a pretty sight at all. So far we have 3 showgirls, 4 silkies, and 2 silkie polish mixes. I'm picking up 3 sizzles Thursday and have 11 in lockdown. Not to mention ordering 10 more eggs today. They really are addicting.

Oh, we did make adjustments and took down the old coop. We are making the new coop this week and are going to make sure nothing can get in at all. This time I also have roosters to help with protection.

Just for my own reference, what did you need to change to make it more safe? My DH and I are argung about what constitutes SAFE. I vote to encase it barbed wire LOL and he says nah, its FINE, wait and see how it goes.

 

[mlaff]

So far with our new brooder we got a toe with locking sides. It also has the top cut out with chicken wire stapled and then duct taped down on top of that. So far so good. One of our old coops is predator proof. We keep bricks on top of the roof that opens up just in case. With our new one we are gig to start building I learned that hardware cloth, it is right next to the chicken wire, is stronger than chicken wire. We are surrounding the run with that instead of all chicken wire. I am putting a motion sensor light, solar powered, on the outside of the coop hopefully to spook off animals. As well as going over ever square inch to match sure nothing can get in or the chickens can't get out unless we want them too. We learned the hard way to also slowly add new chickens into the flock. I'm hoping to build a little brooder inside the coop so that it will make the process easier.

 

[mlaff]

That is supposed to say tote not toe.

 

[OHfarmerswife]

So far with our new brooder we got a toe with locking sides. It also has the top cut out with chicken wire stapled and then duct taped down on top of that. So far so good. One of our old coops is predator proof. We keep bricks on top of the roof that opens up just in case. With our new one we are gig to start building I learned that hardware cloth, it is right next to the chicken wire, is stronger than chicken wire. We are surrounding the run with that instead of all chicken wire. I am putting a motion sensor light, solar powered, on the outside of the coop hopefully to spook off animals. As well as going over ever square inch to match sure nothing can get in or the chickens can't get out unless we want them too. We learned the hard way to also slowly add new chickens into the flock. I'm hoping to build a little brooder inside the coop so that it will make the process easier. 

We built our coop on a slab of concrete, put insulation between the floorboards & covered with vinyl flooring.

We buried 1/2 " hardwarecloth 12" in the ground, & used it for the entire run. Put chickenwire on the top of the run. No problem with anything getting into the run from the ground, but the sparrows came.in through the chicken wire. Had to put bird netting over the chicken wire.

We are safe now!!!!!!

 

[Chickawawa]

Hello from Columbus.
I have 5 girls, 2 weeks old, up in the spare bathroom.

Hello and welcome!

 

[BarredRockGirls]

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Ducks are messy...messymessymessy...but who can resist the face of a call duck??

I raised Wood and Mandarin ducks with my chickens for a few years and was able to keep the chickens from drowning by putting some wire mesh in the water, at an angle like a ladder. If a chicken jumped in, it was able to make it over to the mesh and climb out. Lost two in the month before I put the mesh in, and never lost another one in the couple of years after. The ducks seems to prefer it as their means of escape from the pool as well.

-B

Thanks! I'm ex

Ducks are messy...messymessymessy...but who can resist the face of a call duck??

I raised Wood and Mandarin ducks with my chickens for a few years and was able to keep the chickens from drowning by putting some wire mesh in the water, at an angle like a ladder. If a chicken jumped in, it was able to make it over to the mesh and climb out. Lost two in the month before I put the mesh in, and never lost another one in the couple of years after. The ducks seems to prefer it as their means of escape from the pool as well.

-B

Thanks! Great idea! All the way around or ? I'm expecting 4 Pekin ducklings tomorrow