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[lacymorgan]

Ty I had fun doing it. Will post more as I go have a few more things to do on it.

 

[saraclassic]

Speakibg of dust baths..
I used to have a chinchilla. They bathe in an ash like dust. Bought the chickens a tub of it from the pet store!

 

[lacymorgan]

So what is a dust bath for and do I need it out here in the desert we have lots of loose fine to coarse sand and dust out here

 

[Just sayin]

If you have exposed dry dirt or sand, they'll make their own dust baths.

They do love to bathe in loose dirt.

You'll see them do it eventually.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

The birds can and do dust lots of places. But they do seem to appreciate this particular mixture of sand and peat moss in addition to all their self-made craters all over the property. Also, you can add feed-grade sulfur powder to the mixture to help control mites/lice. During wet or windy weather the birds hang out inside ... away from many of their favorite dust bowls. A nice dust bath gives them something to do besides bother each other.

 

[lacymorgan]

ty will get some food grade sulfur and some peat moss for them then

 

[Free Feather]

For dust baths we use a combination of sand and peat moss and also mix in some feed-grade sulfur powder. We like to use the cheap plastic kiddie pools for the dust baths ... but also have some plywood corner boxes. The birds LOVE these dust baths, but they'll dust bathe anywhere/everywhere.



We recently needed to do a dorm room expansion for the cockerel colony coop. We just did a super simple cattle panel hoop coop, bedding goes right on the bare dirt. The door is just a section of cattle panel we self-hinged at the end, so basically the entire end of the addition opens ... convenient. As it is winter and we finished it during some of our more serious weather, we have it fully enclosed in plastic, but my original idea was to leave the door-end uncovered for more ventilation ...



The original coop is a pallet coop ... and we don't like that as much as we thought we would.

That is really cool that you make a coop for the boys.
Is the cattle panel room a run, or an addition to the coop? I use hoop coops and I really like them.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

That is really cool that you make a coop for the boys.
Is the cattle panel room a run, or an addition to the coop? I use hoop coops and I really like them.

It's an extension for the coop, what I call a "dorm room" as it has two long roosts in it. They birds mostly just go in there at bed time ... food and water is elsewhere. There is a big fenced run out the back door of the coop.

 

[crazyhen]

I add fine wood ashes to the covered part of the run. The next day you can not find them. They love to dust in them.

 

[Sylvester017]

Here is a photo of my chicken coop we will be putting up the chain link fence starting tomorrow.

Really cute!
Since the floor of your building is almost level with the outdoor yard, gradually slope the dirt so rain doesn't backflood through the door into the coop. I live in sunny CA yet we can get doozies of heavy rainfall a week or two out of the year. About every 10 years we actually get a light fall of snow for a day or two!
That is one ROOMY coop - enjoy!