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[Sooner]

I think DH cuts it with a recipicating saw(sp). We seem to have metal laying everywhere. Someday it will all be on top of coops. LOL

Good luck on getting some deer! I laugh because I told me son that I bought freeze ziplocks (150 gal size) and some of that paper you put between the steaks and that he needed to get me a deer. Guess he showed me.

Congrats on your first egg! Sorry DH didn't get to get the surgery but sounds like you did alright on the stove/fridge.

 

[Whirlwind]

Barnswallow, yes EE's can lay brown eggs.

If your worried about your young chickens eating layer feed you can just add some oyster shell in a seperate feeder for

the ones that need it and keep on giving them grower feed.

ETA this is what I am doing with hens and 12 week olds in the same pen.

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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Thanks so much, it was the biggest surprize since we dont have nesting boxes yet and so to see it laying there on a table we have in the coop was quite a treat

 

[Sooner]

LOL, I have milk crates in my laying pen. The guy down the road moved and left a bunch of them, the new ppl were going to burn them, I had the kids hauling them on the 4 wheeler for a couple of hours. I think there are 15 in that coop. In the other pens I got some kind of wooden thing that was used to put parts or something in that just happened to be the right size holes.

 

[Sooner]

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What do you mean with the front cut out of them?

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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Thanks for the tip.. yea most of our flock are 2.5 months old or younger.. Cruella is the only one that is older..

 

[quenston]

I am going to try and post a picture of a full milk crate and explain where I cut them

I cut the outside where the holes are on one side and leave the solid pieces and put a piece of plywood on the bottom and then cover with straw

 

[GracefulBantams]

Sherri, you went to the auction again "without meeee"!

Just kidding of course. I wanted to go, but we had already signed up to go to something else

What color were the Sebrights? The Silver ones are about as close to SS Hamburg bantams I can get!

 

[Sooner]

Now I understand. I went the lazy way. I just mounted them on the wall (bottom of crate to the wall) then took a 4" piece of plywood the length of the row & attached it to the open end of the crate to hold the hay/bedding in.

 

[GracefulBantams]

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That's a lot of chickies!

Congratulations on such a great hatch, and I hope you are able to take care of them all (

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