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[OneMountainAcres]

I just have to show pictures of my birthday greenhouse that my parents got me. It got too cold last night for me to trust it with my sensitive plants but soon, I'll be moving there lemon trees and avocado out there to harden off before they go to their summer spots in the yard. It figures, this year, we weren't really planning to do much of a garden lol

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

No, I sold them all off. There was just no market for them at all around here. I have silkies/showgirls, English orpingtons, a couple Seramas and ameraucanas now. There are a couple other random hens but that's pretty much it.

I hope you feel better soon! Sorry for the recent losses too.

I can't believe they were going to destroy all those chicks! That's so hard to understand. I mean, I know why they do it but it's so cruel. I'm glad that you were able to take them in! 40 is a lot but still!

Yeah, it is sad. Apparently there were over a thousand.

My turkey is not being a very good broody Mom though, so I took the chicks from her. This morning, there was a broody duck in the same nesting box, and 3 chicks had gotten trampled and died. I am going to create a separate area for broody chickens soon.

The greenhouse looks great! Do you have some kind of anchoring so it doesn’t blow away? I’d recommend extra, if any was even supplied with it. My small greenhouse blew out of the ground and down our driveway last spring. When it did, it made a large scratch on the side of my truck. I did have it anchored with the supplied stakes, but apparently that was not enough.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Yeah, it is sad. Apparently there were over a thousand.

My turkey is not being a very good broody Mom though, so I took the chicks from her. This morning, there was a broody duck in the same nesting box, and 3 chicks had gotten trampled and died. I am going to create a separate area for broody chickens soon.

The greenhouse looks great! Do you have some kind of anchoring so it doesn’t blow away? I’d recommend extra, if any was even supplied with it. My small greenhouse blew out of the ground and down our driveway last spring. When it did, it made a large scratch on the side of my truck. I did have it anchored with the supplied stakes, but apparently that was not enough.

Over 1000? That's awful!

I do have it anchored with the stakes it came with and some bricks and buckets around the outside. I'll be adding more to help hold it down though.

I just moved a few plants from the house out to it, at least for the day. It's nice and toasty in there even though it's only 37° outside right now.

 

[BullChick]

My prefab coops kept blowing away. I have a different roof on it now (real wood), as well as a cinder block and a gallon of water in the upper level. No way am I losing my quail to a flyaway coop!!
I hope your greenhouse stays put.

 

[BullChick]

“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” Some people would do anything for duck eggs, and I don’t even like them in my baked goods. I do use them on occasion, but Maaco now relies on his daily egg. He’s grown tired of them in the past after a few days. This streak is a few weeks.

 

[fisherlady]

I just have to show pictures of my birthday greenhouse that my parents got me. It got too cold last night for me to trust it with my sensitive plants but soon, I'll be moving there lemon trees and avocado out there to harden off before they go to their summer spots in the yard. It figures, this year, we weren't really planning to do much of a garden lol

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Looks like a great start for your gardening, and maybe a safe keep spot for chicks when you are cleaning brooder boxes?

 

[HeartoftheMatterFarm]

I'm getting pigs in a couple weeks. I am going to give them all my duck eggs and any chicken eggs that I'm noy sure about. And all our food scrapes.

 

[AnneInTheBurbs]

So I figured out why my turkey wouldn’t take to the new black chicks. Apparently, she thought the first batch were her chicks also. She is not very vocal, so they don’t seem to respond to her, but they may come around.


If you look at the pictures of Ruby below, you can see three chicks peeking out like a totem pole.

The ducks are getting so big, so I fashioned a movable little pen for them. Maple the dog is getting better with her training. She wants to come out and play, but I was using this as a training lesson lesson.

 

[fisherlady]

Adorable pictures!

 

[LadyBehir]

Cute greenhouse. I HIGHLY recommend raking off the snow. Ours collapsed under the weight. I've reused the poles and shelf pieces as temporary chicken pens, strawberry cage, blueberry cage, an indoor shelf unit for seed starting, etc. It just isn't a greenhouse anymore.
Colleen only made it a day in the main coop without being pecked bloody again. I don't know if it is the rooster that starts it - he jumped her right away but she was not injured in the morning, so it was possibly the mean girls doing it. So she's back in the isolation unit. I think I will put another hen in with her again just for company. If you could housetrain a chicken, and if Fenris wasn't so prey driven, I'd just bring her in. She's a cuddle chicken.