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[jcatblum]

Mitzi I have 4-5 Roos that are grown with about 40-50 hens. It works out pretty well. When I want to hatch from the a certain group I pick the ones I want & stick them in a cattle panel style hoop house for a month or so. We do have some "special" birds that dont mix with the birds in the lean to - it is 48ft x 12 ft covered area then there is a fenced yard that is 48x16. Plus I let them free range. The yard is for when they are not able to come out when we are gone & such. The yard had green stuff in it last yr, but this season they have kept the yard pure dirt.

 

[artsyrobin]

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i just cleaned the spare bathroom aka broody house- amazing stuff! I'm sold! yeah on the oxine, i need to get more, but this month i spent the extra for denagard, have heard between it and oxine and DE, you are pretty well set on the health of the flock..

 

[Tony O]

. I put the Production Reds and RIRS and the one NN egg under her, and the Ameraucanas and Brown Leghorns under the splash. This is my first time hatching and I'm trying not to stress over it too much...! I know I will be able to quit any time.

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[Oakieridge]

Okay so Kurt and I know we need at least two more Aframe coops built this weekend and one more hoop house built. I have the materials for the hoop house already. It will be identical to our last one. The Aframes I want to make I want them lighter than the others we built. I love the others they will last FOREVER but they are a big hard for me to move by myself much. So who has pics of some very easy build, easy to move a-frames? I was thinking about not putting a floor in the "coop" area of the a-frame but I like knowing they are up off the ground in a rain storm I just need to figure out how to make it lighter in that area. I am also considering not covering the entire bottom with wire and just do a skirt of wire around the bottom edges to keep out diggers. We haven't had any issues but I know that doesn't mean we won't. I am going to Lowes after work to get 2x4's I already used up most of hubby's cedar he had milled. Time to get that man back to putting his chainsaw to good work instead of running off to the races, lol.

 

[Oakieridge]

The layers are all together, I guess I hadn't considered doing it that way because then I'd have the roosters all together in with the hens. Would all those roosters get along? There'd be like 5 or 6. How many boys do you have? I do have a game cock of some mixture (Spoc) in the layer's yard and he tolerates the 2 Silkie boys just fine. Which is odd because he won't put up with any other males. Hmmmmm.....that might very well be the way to do it with the ones that are babies right now. I don't want want to mix the Fav boy and grown Cochin boy with the babies though. But all the babies really could grow up and live together, couldn't they??? You might be onto something. Back to my drawing pages!

Could you make some smaller cooops like Aframes to house the males that don't get along with others well? I have one male that he just can't be around the others so I took him and his 3 girls and put them in a a-frame that gets moved every other day. He is happy and so are the rest of the flock. We have thought about making small a-frames for batcholer pads for single roos without a flock of their own yet. I bought two round ones at auction last week in Harrah for our extra Golden Salmon Marans boy and our extra FBCM roo. They seem quiet happy to be in there. Of course they will be MUCH happier once I get them their own flock of girls, lol.

 

[MacGuyver]

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Agreed!

 

[MacGuyver]

Okay so Kurt and I know we need at least two more Aframe coops built this weekend and one more hoop house built. I have the materials for the hoop house already. It will be identical to our last one. The Aframes I want to make I want them lighter than the others we built. I love the others they will last FOREVER but they are a big hard for me to move by myself much. So who has pics of some very easy build, easy to move a-frames? I was thinking about not putting a floor in the "coop" area of the a-frame but I like knowing they are up off the ground in a rain storm I just need to figure out how to make it lighter in that area. I am also considering not covering the entire bottom with wire and just do a skirt of wire around the bottom edges to keep out diggers. We haven't had any issues but I know that doesn't mean we won't. I am going to Lowes after work to get 2x4's I already used up most of hubby's cedar he had milled. Time to get that man back to putting his chainsaw to good work instead of running off to the races, lol.

I used a section of cattle panel, with hardware cloth over it to make a platform for my little bantams to be up out of the wet.



Looks like this installed

 

[old*cowboy]

I had some strange stuff happen. I have a large stacked brooder, but when I get a small hatch like from my broodies I put them in some tank brooders I have. In the last few weeks I have lost 3 young chicks. All three were bloody and I assumed the hatch mates got to pecking on them and then when they got blood they pecked till they died. Day before yesterday I walked into the brooder house and there was a large green shiney bug (like a large june bug) latched on the butt of one of the little chicks and had drawed blood. I had to pull the dang thing off. Today there was a large black bug that was attached to one of the little buggers butt again. Has anyone ever had this happen. Now looking back I would say the bugs is what caused the problems from day one. The brooder house sets under a night light and lots of bugs fly to the light constantly. Then there is lights in the tanks. I assume the bugs are attracted to the light. I moved one set to the big brooder so they are bug free. Have 6 left in another tank. I will rig up some sort of screen on it. CHICKENS ARE SUPPOSED TO EAT BUGS, Not the other way around.

 

[Oceanseve]

Sounds like a snake that couldn't eat it.

Hadn't thought about that. There are four tiny ducklings in the same coop, why didn't the idiot go for one of those??

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

I never thought they would grow on me but I got one out of an assortment I split with mamapoppybee and she didn't want it so I got it. She is starting to grow on me but I am still keeping her name as Fugly. Kids asked me why I told em it's cause she is Flippin Ugly!! lol

Hubby swore he would eat them if I got them. I knew he wouldn't.