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[mamatink7]

Finally decided to use corregated clear vinyl roof panels instead of plastic sheeting to winterize the coop run. The vinyl was the cheapest and also can be cut with scissors and only needs two pieces of wood each to keep it on tight. We put up one panel to try it out, only took 5 minutes. Here is a pic, but you can barely tell its there as it's pretty clear stuff, It's just on the one open area up to the coop house.

looks really easy to set up! Thanks for sharing. BTW, how do you still have green grass where the girls are?? I'm searching for a grass that grows during the freezing winter.

 

[WVduckchick]

Big debate here:
Since we found King Titan (our roo) a new home last week, my husband said I can get another Wyandotte. BUT our hatchery won't have any pullets till Springs. Issue with this is is our girls are 27wks and by then they will be a yr. I don't want to put that far distance in age together. Sooo...do I get a Silver Laced Wyandotte from a breeder OR do I wait and order a Golden Laced Wyandotte from my hatchery for this spring? I LOVE our hatchery and feel like I'd be cheating on them. Hubby thinks hatchery has SLW for today. He won't care but really wants GLW but doesn't want me to wait.
We have a GLW and she's the only one like her in our flock and is wonderful. Just don't like her to be by herself (still scared to get off perch cause she gets pecked on by the comets).
I'd get the SLW today and have them the exact age-within wks of each other- or wait and have them be 6 months apart and have our flock be even more established before adding just 1 more..
Ahhhh WHAT WOULD YA'LL DO??

Maybe check other sources for a GLW? If what you want isn't available at the hatchery of choice, then its not your fault to go somewhere else (thank goodness we're talking about chickens! lol!)

I guess it depends on your goal. If they are just for fun and company, then the color doesn't matter as much. If you ever plan to breed them, then color may matter.

By the way, I have a group of comets also. They can be kinda bitchy birds to each other, but when I brought new ones in, they pecked them for a little while, then finally became one big happy family. Maybe getting your SLW out and about with them will give them a chance to bond?

 

[mamatink7]

Maybe check other sources for a GLW?  If what you want isn't available at the hatchery of choice, then its not your fault to go somewhere else (thank goodness we're talking about chickens! lol!) 

I guess it depends on your goal.  If they are just for fun and company, then the color doesn't matter as much.  If you ever plan to breed them, then color may matter. 

By the way, I have a group of comets also.  They can be kinda bitchy birds to each other, but when I brought new ones in, they pecked them for a little while, then finally became one big happy family.  Maybe getting your SLW out and about with them will give them a chance to bond?

thanks. No breeding as no more rooster lol. But want for eggs and personality. We already know when we redo flock in a couple yrs, wyandotte will be a definite breed in the mix.

 

[minihorse927]

thanks. No breeding as no more rooster lol. But want for eggs and personality. We already know when we redo flock in a couple yrs, wyandotte will be a definite breed in the mix.

unfortunately the picking is a comet thing. I had 2 Easter eggers given to me by some friends cause they said they were flighty and wouldn't lay. I have found them to be the opposite once away from their flock of comets. Their comets had ripped out their tails and ripped their backs up, these people do not own a rooster.
Comets do great in small numbers in mixed flocks but if the flock is mainly comets they tend to pick on the odd man out.

I personally would get the one that would be closest in age to what I have now. Give them less time to gang up on the other one while she has no buddies.

 

[mamatink7]

unfortunately the picking is a comet thing. I had 2 Easter eggers given to me by some friends cause they said they were flighty and wouldn't lay. I have found them to be the opposite once away from their flock of comets. Their comets had ripped out their tails and ripped their backs up, these people do not own a rooster.
Comets do great in small numbers in mixed flocks but if the flock is mainly comets they tend to pick on the odd man out.

I personally would get the one that would be closest in age to what I have now. Give them less time to gang up on the other one while she has no buddies.

yeah, they're all within weeks of each other. Decided to go to poultry show this weekend and getting 3 more. 2 SLW and 1 GLW. Then no one will be alone. Grrr I've noticed this as well, those Comets are the bullies. GLW stays away from them as much as possible.

 

[ToniTalley]

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Lowe's. They were the cheapest of all the roofing panels, and I liked that you can cut with scissors (heavy duty work scissors). We got the 8 ft. lengths, they also had 12 ft. lengths...26"wide, there are 2 panels overlapped on the section in the photo.

 

[ToniTalley]

Quote: Our grass (well it's a combo of grass and weeds) stays green pretty much all year, although it does get somewhat bedraggled looking in the middle of winter into spring. I don't know what kind of grass it is, we just put down the cheapest hardy play area grass we could find. The chick fertilizer can't hurt, either! They have a big enough area inside the fence that they can't totally destroy the whole yard. The junky area between the coop and the fence is their compost/play area...we dump scraps and clippings and scratch there for them to dig around in.

 

[minihorse927]

Aw.   Well, good to know, in a way, that it wasn't just mine this year. Sorry you lost yours, though!


Yikes.  Dang owl! Hm, well, if you have any spare ducklings this year, I'd love to take them off your hands. If not, I'll just poke around for some at swap days hehe.

you alive still???

 

[OHfarmerswife]

Lowe's. They were the cheapest of all the roofing panels, and I liked that you can cut with scissors (heavy duty work scissors).  We got the 8 ft. lengths, they also had 12 ft. lengths...26"wide, there are 2 panels overlapped on the section in the photo. 

Thanks. I love this idea! Going to order some tonight!

 

[ToniTalley]

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Be sure to measure carefully! I hope to get the panels on the windy west side and the east side up today, it's finally turning colder here. I will probably leave the south side off for another month, and the north side is solid already.