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[mjgigax]

Ok Christina I am stealing the swingset coop idea!!! LOL We have an old swingset in the front of our house that has been there for all the 4 years we have been there and it was there for 10 years before that! Right now it is a fancy bird feeder hanger place, haha.

It really is a great idea!

 

[MacGuyver]

Mitzi we had 6 seabrights in our "City Coop" the top part is enclosed, but similar to yours. Up top is 3ftx4ft & it has a detachable run that is maybe 3ftx8ft, plus the space under the shelter. This was DD birthday present a few yrs ago when we lived in town & she first became a chicken addict. the seabrights always had more than enough space. We have even used that coop as a grow out pen for a dz birds at a time with no issue. If the birds are crowded you will know quickly. They will loose feathers & look awful. With my coop we have hardware cloth as the floor & in the winter I lay a scrap of laminate floor & hay down. In the summer we just have the wire floor. Our coop was 3ft wide, instead of 4 so us girls can move it, 4ft is too wide for us to reach.

Cathie we will be happy to share some RIR when we hatch them. Not sure when I will put them together. I am using a new roo that I love, but he is very timid. Kinda worried about fertility, I never see him cover any girls. However he does have a flock of this yrs keets that follow him around!

Well, at least my weird rooster isn't the only one. Maybe it's a fad.

 

[NanaKat]

Modernman, congrats to the children for their wins!

Mitzi..nice pen and coop. Will the door be on the side next to the coop?

Kassaundra - you take amazing photographs!! Makes me want to get out my big camera and play! I don't have any pretty chickens to take shots of but those sunset pics are gorgeous!

X 2.. love the bright orange sunset!

Long couple of days. We have been cleaning up under the pecan trees. Had to stop Sunday when hubby ran over stump with the finish mower and bent the blade. The boys finished baling a pasture in Prague and brought home 11 more bales of hay. I have 6 eggs in the hatcher due to hatch Nov 1....a lot of quitters in the incubator . Stil can't get the geese to go into their house voluntarily so tonight I left them out. Will butcher tomorrow so better get some sleep.

 

[Oakieridge]

Mitzi you should meet Bailif. He came from BarnSwallow & will steal any egg he sees even a whole carton if he has the chance. We find many guinea nest because he is guarding them from the other dogs. When the fight breaks out we know where the nest was. Opossuim is my favorite dog. Sure I would miss the others, but not near like opossuim. He is very high maintance wants to be inside on the furniture more than chasing critters outside.
The city coop is only so fancy because Taron designed it. She wanted it movable & to look like a barn. Think DH spent way too much on it. Our most expensive coop & the smallest. It is the only one that has all new materials & a custom paint job. Think it was for her 9th birthday, isn't that what all 9 yr olds ask for???
Mitzi maybe a roofing nailer would be a better gift from Santa. Shingles are easy to work with, but they sure can get heavy!

LOL it seems to be around here. The 8 and 10 year olds are complaining we didn't get "their" coops built this summer. Guess I am going to have to step it up on looking for the little plastic playhouses so they can build their "village" LOL

 

[NanaKat]

Hope this link works...it's really funny.
Thanksgiving coming...got your turkey?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/11/egreetings/image/01.swf

 

[Ksane]

Mitzi you should meet Bailif. He came from BarnSwallow & will steal any egg he sees even a whole carton if he has the chance. We find many guinea nest because he is guarding them from the other dogs. When the fight breaks out we know where the nest was. Opossuim is my favorite dog. Sure I would miss the others, but not near like opossuim. He is very high maintance wants to be inside on the furniture more than chasing critters outside.
The city coop is only so fancy because Taron designed it. She wanted it movable & to look like a barn. Think DH spent way too much on it. Our most expensive coop & the smallest. It is the only one that has all new materials & a custom paint job. Think it was for her 9th birthday, isn't that what all 9 yr olds ask for???
Mitzi maybe a roofing nailer would be a better gift from Santa. Shingles are easy to work with, but they sure can get heavy!

Mitzi..nice pen and coop. Will the door be on the side next to the coop?

Still can't get the geese to go into their house voluntarily so tonight I left them out. Will butcher tomorrow so better get some sleep.

Well, THAT''LL teach them to go into their house at night

(Teasing you. The way you phrased it made me think you were going to butcher the geese for not using their coop lol)

On the coop the door will be on the long side closest in the picture. The sleeping area will also have a hinged backside to put their food and water directly into the coop area.

 

[Kassaundra]

Hope this link works...it's really funny.
Thanksgiving coming...got your turkey?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/05/11/egreetings/image/01.swf

That was really cute, I shared it on FB

 

[Oakieridge]

Well now you all have me itching to build more pens! LOL Of course I would have no trouble filling them since there are so many other birds I want haha. But got to wait until dh is in the mood to build more pens I can't do it by myself much anymore. Kurt and Nathanael are pros at helping to build hoop houses and A-frames but I think the swingset build will take more muscle power than I have lol.

Looks like a pretty week for us, wish I was off work this week to enjoy it but hopefully it holds out to the weekend where I can get some outside stuff done. I am kicking the 2 week old chicks out of the house brooders. I remember our first ones didn't go outside to the brooders there until they were almost 2 months old they were SPOILED LOL.

 

[Kassaundra]

Well now you all have me itching to build more pens! LOL Of course I would have no trouble filling them since there are so many other birds I want haha. But got to wait until dh is in the mood to build more pens I can't do it by myself much anymore. Kurt and Nathanael are pros at helping to build hoop houses and A-frames but I think the swingset build will take more muscle power than I have lol.

Looks like a pretty week for us, wish I was off work this week to enjoy it but hopefully it holds out to the weekend where I can get some outside stuff done. I am kicking the 2 week old chicks out of the house brooders. I remember our first ones didn't go outside to the brooders there until they were almost 2 months old they were SPOILED LOL.

We were the same way, our first chickens had the heat light for like 5 weeks, stayed in the house for all 5 weeks, had the temp lowered by 5 degrees a week, ect..... This last batch got a heat light for 1 week, then heat light at night for 1 week then outside in the coop, they did great. I worried over the cold spell since they were only at the high end of 4 wks or low end of 5 when it hit, but they were little troopers no issues at all, they also feathered quicker then our first batch.

 

[Reagor]

Quick question- is it weird that the Pullets I've picked up are still laying even after I drove them here in a small box and hour drive from where I got them? I thought they normally went of lay for a week or three before starting back up after a move? These girls have laid everyday since Saturday. They were in pretty cramped conditions where they were, and had feathers missing from too many roosters and pasty butts, but I cleaned them up and now they are laying like crazy. Could it be that now they are finally not stressed?