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5AcreFarm, I love that big building!!
Here's the 4x8 x 6' tall coop my daughter and I framed the other day. Then today I put the pickets on while my husband worked on fence. Yep, in the heat we were out there. It's about 15 degrees cooler in this yard where the coop is because it's under a bunch of low hanging trees, it's like a tree cave in that whole yard, I love it. When my Silver/Gold Laced Cochins get grown a little they'll go in there with my 4 Dark Brahmas. I've got to put roof panels on the top yet and a floor in and it'll be done. Even has rope lights around the top to draw them in at night. The 2nd pic is the back 1/2 of the inside. It was really simple to make with just 2x4's and pickets.
Joe, the 3 Araucana have a big 50x60 yard all to themselves to hang out in, their yard is right next to the Brahma yard. Yet where were they the whole time we were out there working? They were up and down the fence line talking to us lol My daughter kept feeding them grass, they're just darling birds!
Oh yea, Joe-forgot to ask-how do I get a Brown Red hen like this one I've got? The black one with the lacing on her neck? With her and the rooster have that color of chick if it's a girl? She's started laying today :)

very nice, mine is going to have standard cochins and turkeys in it. i worked out in the heat most of the day today, and i will be in it all day tomorrow
 
Okay, okieridge and jcatblum and any other guinea people on here, I need some advice. I had my guineas in their outdoor brooder, and went out this morning and found a dead one. Wasn't sure what happened at first. Didn't look too beat up. It was freshly dead too, rigor mortis hadn't even set in. When I inspected it closer though, it had been beat up pretty bad all around the head. I checked all the other guineas out and two more are hurt. One is hurt REALLY bad, and the other, not so much. The thing is, it's all three of my lavender ones. I brought the really hurt one into the house to try to get it healed up. I turned all the other guineas out of the brooder. When I put the not so hurt lavender on the ground, instead of running over with the other guineas that were all in one big group together, it ran the other direction and tried to climb in with my bantam chickens. I caught it really easily and it didn't seem to mind getting caught as long as it wasn't around the other guineas. I am just going to let the other eleven dark ones range. They're fully feathered and bigger than my bantams. Plenty for them to eat right now, so hopefully they'll be okay. I'm just so mad. Any hope for reintegrating my other two after they get well, or do guineas pretty much congregate by color?

Sounds like over crowding. My 5 adults seem to be seperating into two pairs and a loner that has become a overseer of my dozen young guineas. I have an agressive pair, a royal and a coral, a docile pair, a royal and a coral, and then the lonely coral trying to get the pearls to like her :) The only time I've had probelms with cannabalism it's been a space issue. Were the blues younger or smaller than the rest? I would bring in the other blue and put him with the badly injured one that way they can continue to bond.

I think they are not. My friend in Dallas just posted elsewhere that she lost a couple of favs in the heat last year.

I dunno TX was so unbareable last year I don't think it was the breeds fault :p


5AcreFarm, I love that big building!!
Here's the 4x8 x 6' tall coop my daughter and I framed the other day. Then today I put the pickets on while my husband worked on fence. Yep, in the heat we were out there. It's about 15 degrees cooler in this yard where the coop is because it's under a bunch of low hanging trees, it's like a tree cave in that whole yard, I love it. When my Silver/Gold Laced Cochins get grown a little they'll go in there with my 4 Dark Brahmas. I've got to put roof panels on the top yet and a floor in and it'll be done. Even has rope lights around the top to draw them in at night. The 2nd pic is the back 1/2 of the inside. It was really simple to make with just 2x4's and pickets.
Joe, the 3 Araucana have a big 50x60 yard all to themselves to hang out in, their yard is right next to the Brahma yard. Yet where were they the whole time we were out there working? They were up and down the fence line talking to us lol My daughter kept feeding them grass, they're just darling birds!
Oh yea, Joe-forgot to ask-how do I get a Brown Red hen like this one I've got? The black one with the lacing on her neck? Will her and the rooster have that color of chick if it's a girl? She's started laying today :)
Nice Coop Mitzi!!

BTW we got our tortoise back!! :) Somebody found him by charter oak and pine, bugger travelled about two miles in a month :) We spent the whole day mowing, including some of the spaces that hadn't been mowed since february. Ran over lots of things we shouldn't have :p It's gonna take forever to get this place cleaned up
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There is just junk and mangled fence EVERYWHERE!!
 
BTW we got our tortoise back!! :) Somebody found him by charter oak and pine, bugger travelled about two miles in a month :) We spent the whole day mowing, including some of the spaces that hadn't been mowed since february. Ran over lots of things we shouldn't have :p It's gonna take forever to get this place cleaned up
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There is just junk and mangled fence EVERYWHERE!!
You got him back!?!? I'm so glad!! I still look for him. Heck, he's faster than me lol
That place looks 100 times better than it did before you all moved in. Believe me-I know how hard you've worked at it. I noticed from the road awhile back how much cleaner it was. That was before I even knew that's where you lived. It's looking great and it can't be easy with kids and animals to take care of.
Everybody's tucked in. The Brahma, Ameraucana group & the baby Cochin and Orp group.
My Cochin girls have a red light in their building, it looks really cool without the flash. I'll leave the pictures small.

 
well, for now they are on the porch until i can get a coop and run made for them- got the bantam cochin girls set up today- i think the ice and a fan will have to do for now...
the larger the bird the more the heat will bother them shade fabric i
i need to invest in shade cloth- is it expensive?
Add some cayene pepper or something similar to the water this will encourage them to drink more to prevent dehydration.
thanks carl, will do that - so just sprinkle it in the water?
The most effective heat defense I have found is to turn them loose and let them find their own cool spot.

But then, you need some good dogs to protection them.
thats what i did today- and saw some of the silly girls sunbathing! they must not be as sensitive to heat as i am
 
I don't know that I'd add pepper to their water as hot as it is. Something as simple as dropping a few ice cubes in there fascinates them enough to start gulping more down.
I did use the frozen 2 liter bottles of water last year and the birds would lay against them.
 
I don't know that I'd add pepper to their water as hot as it is. Something as simple as dropping a few ice cubes in there fascinates them enough to start gulping more down.
I did use the frozen 2 liter bottles of water last year and the birds would lay against them.

i watched the bantams play with the ice cubes today, almost like a game to see who could kick it the farthest...
What great ideas! We built our coop in the shade where it gets a lot of breeze blowing across it. I will have to give them some ice. I try to clean out my ice tray quite a bit to keep the ice from getting all yucky. I'll have to dump it out by my girls and they can do what they want with it. Love the water bottle idea. Will be doing that as well!
 
I candled my 12 americauna eggs that i ordered off ebay. I set them on the 19th, this is my second time trying to hatch. 1st time non made it
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(mostly due to operator error). But, back to the my candling....5 are growing
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Mini tribal!!!
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I left the rest in there just to make sure. Will toss them after another week.
 
Just got in from Blanchard sale ..You never no at an auction wat thing's will bring it must have ben Turkey night man they sure went high ..Lot's of rabbit's ..The best part is seeing all the BYCer's Al . Musky BFran Chicklooker MJ Auctionlover an more Got to meet a new bycer Elliemay one thing for sure Byc folk's are way nicer in person....An Buster scored some nice bird's to ad to his laying flock ...The sale was over early but i stayd an talkd chicken's for a long time b4 i left...I no it's not chicken but i still mis seeing AL's pic's of his sunday cook out...Wish you wer back on the bord ...Elliemay it was so nice to meet you the next time ill interduce you to all the other Bycer's...
 

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