Okies in the BYC The Original

[Cuban Longtails]

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Hi Monty! I must be home during a time when the sun is out and have my camera at the same time.

I've misplaced my camera though.

I'm also usually working all day, or at school, which puts me getting home after sundown.

Here lately the sun has been a rare thing anyways...

 

[Sooner]

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It's a speckled sussex, DH is going to look around for her tomorrow......hoping she is just somewhere with a clutch of eggs......

 

[quenston]

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I live a little further NE of you but all my coops are uninsulated, I do put lights out but they are only for my younger chickens, and my bantam breeds and havent lost any yet

 

[Sooner]

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My coop is not insulated. I had one roo get alittle frostbite on his comb this winter (first time ever) because he likes to sleep on the roost in front of the door that was stuck open. When we had the ice storm a few years back they all did fine. My coop is made out of plywood. Hope that helps you.

Edit to add there is no light added to my coop. The only thing that has heat is the heated water bowl.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I had a young pullet escape a pen and had to rescue her from about 5 cockerels that penned her down.

Oh well, at least they made catching her easier.

Need to start swinging a hatchet around here....

 

[momofthree]

awesome guys. Thanks! My dh will be glad...less money

so far, in the plans, for ventilation, is a entire length (12 ft) of ridgecap ventilation along with larger squares of ventilation (not sure of the size - yet to be determined) on either end.

I will have windows on all four sides so in the summer, they will have even more ventilation and allow the built up heat to escape and to provide light in the winter.

 

[nnbreeder]

You might also put a few vents down low that can be closed off when not needed like the vents in the foundation of a house. Think low for chickens. We get a cool breeze from a window in the summer but we are just a tad taller then a chicken. It will also help to keep stray odors (ammonia) from building up.

 

[Sooner]

Juat the man I was going to ask about.

Isn't molasses something of a laxative for a chicken?

No dinner but I have a clean house......I am going to have to find something before this wine goes to my head.

 

[muesky]

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City don't feel bad, I have a really hard time not getting birds when I find them. So far I have been pretty good, if you do not count the 15 baby turkeys and 25 chicks coming at the end of March.

We are going to New York during Spring Break and I don't want chicks in the house while we are gone. The ones in the brooders now are going to the grow out pen tomorrow morning.
It is really hard to fight the power of the foo. I realized right from the beginning my constitution was too weak to deny them. Don't worry about finding them homes if you get to the point you decide to get rid of them. There are enough foo lovers on this board that would be more then happy to find them new homes. And if I come around looking at them please remind me I do not need anymore birds.

They are really cute!

 

[faerielady]

I got my hair done before J and I dropped by Blanchard and gave QueenPeaches her brahma chicks:

J said I should chop off 6-8 inches so it'd curl more. I told him the 6-8 inches would be cut off his legs, no problem.