Nice... It made me run dig out my DVDs. All 8 seasons of Dr. Who.
I need season 9....
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The front of that kind of looks like a TARDIS and it IS bigger inside
I dont know or worry about nutritional value, chickens have a crop that allows them to eat very hard grains and digest them. All birds have this AFAIK. My hens will jump up on my arm to get at the corn in my hand or scoop. The kids get a kick out of feeding them out of their hands. I used to hunt pheasant and the season was during corn harvest so their crops were always full of corn. When i mow the lawn i drive by the run so the mower throws the cut grass into the run. They climb all over each other to get the grass. A friend of mine used to throw handfulls of cut grass into his chicken's run just to see how crazy they get over it
I'm thinking young chicks, not adult birds, with regard to seriously limiting the "crack". In general the "crack" shouldn't be more than 10% of an adult chicken's diet but that doesn't mean it has no nutritional value. But just like you probably don't want to raise your kids on a diet of ice cream (which does have nutritional value) you want the chicks to make sure they get most of their calories from a balanced diet.
My adults (which I guess now includes all 16 girls) make their own balanced diet once things start to grow in the spring and the bugs are out. They still eat some of the layer feed though. And they get morning BOSS and evening scratch year round.
My first thought as well. A 6 foot fence will stop most dogs but not coons or hawks. I dont have time or energy to stand out in the yard all day with a shotgun and based on some stories I've heard, catching a savy fox or coyote in the process is very unlikely unless it's fenced. Considering that my chicken project is technically illegal it's best to keep them out of sight and make as little fuss as possible anyway. The new run should keep them happy. One more good day and they will be out to run around in it. So far, all my neighbors are the live and let live type. Authorities don't typically act without a complaint and our local snitch passed away last year so there is hope for peace and tranquility in the neighborhood
My adjacent neighbors are friends and actually think they are cool and will probably be getting a lot of leftover eggs with 18 layers I was giving some away with only 8 layers. I may wall the end with steel barn siding to match the barn so their presence will not be obvious due visable fencing. The entire coop and run are pole barn constructs, an extension of the existing pole barn so adding siding or roofing is "Easy Peasy".
