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[weirdones]

This is our currant coop. Built for 6-8 now have 12 plus another 6 eight week old chicks in pen to the left. 18 eggs in the bator. So this is soon to be our small coop. I plan on building a bigger one and keeping this one for breeding pair. Hope to build a quail coop as soon as I get a permit to own them.

 

[HiddenChickens]

My temporary coop... Ended up with more chickens than i had planned on. Chicken math... In the process of building a larger coop to accomodate my 9 ladies better.

 

[TJordan]

Just had my first solid candling of the 2 remaining older eggs. I climbed inside the coop and closed myself inside just to get a dark enough area to see clearly... Both are very active... I saw my first moving already in love... My new problem... I've been sick for a few days with the flu and guess who didn't make sure new eggs were added to the existing group.... I've got 2 new eggs that appear to be about 3 days old... And I've got no incubator to pull them when the older ones hatch... Mommy will abandon them and they will die if I can't find, buy or build one ASAP.... The other 2 are around 12-16 days so I should have two babies by next week..... HELP!!!! IDEAS PLEASE... or an incubator

 

[Chickencoopers]

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[bruceha2000]

Always nice to have something sturdy to stand on when doing stuff at an altitude. I sometimes find myself wondering "What the heck am I doing?" when standing on top of a ladder, balanced on a table, stabilized with two planks, trying to reach that little spot in the corner with the paintbrush.

I know what you mean and I'm glad you are still with us!

I felt like that up in the old maple tree last week cutting some dead branches (we ran out of fire wood, really cold this winter). No I wasn't using a chainsaw, I don't have the knowledge or experience (or flexibility any more) to do that. But finding a path with good supporting branches to hold on to was a bit unnerving especially since I have no depth perception. I was VERY careful but there was still enough reaching in funny ways to make it a tiring experience.

 

[WldFlwrs]

This is our coop. It's made completely of cedar.
It sits in a 1/2 acre chicken yard to be fenced over the next two weekends.
We plan on trying the deep litter method. We figure the deep mulch method worked so well in our garden, might as well try the deep litter method in the chicken coop.












Nest boxes are designed so that I can move them around inside the coop.

 

[vehve]

@WldFlwrs Nice looking coop. I hope the girls find the nest boxes dark enough, you might need to come up with something for them if they don't lay in them.

 

[WldFlwrs]

@WldFlwrs Nice looking coop. I hope the girls find the nest boxes dark enough, you might need to come up with something for them if they don't lay in them.

Oh I'm sure it will be dark enough. No light during the night out here at all other than starlight.

 

[vehve]

For some reason, all of our birds usually tend to lay during the day. Mostly around noon.

 

[WldFlwrs]

Good to know. Will keep that in mind.