Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

[Tracydr]

Gee, I notice nobody has cutesy murals and curtains in their meat bird pens. I was sort of thinking bout making my meat bird coop with a bunch of artwork, maybe some heated nest boxes, AC, tiled floors, some little toys for them to play with. Wudda y'all think?

 

[kfacres]

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My bantams currently reside in a greenhouse- heated, cooled, and windows all over... It's so dry in there, they need tiled floors.

Now the silkies on the other hand... sometimes I think they require a upity style lifestyle...

yOu know, waste of time in a meat bird pen.. all they do is poop all over the place.

 

[Oregon Blues]

None of my birds have artwork. The ducks prefer a nice bit of fresh water to murals or toys. The ducks would not use heated nest boxes and they'd slip on tile floors, although tile floors would be easy to clean.

However, if you want to decorate your meat bird housing, go for it. The fancy coop stuff is for the owner's enjoyment. It makes no difference to the chickens, so if you enjoy wall art, tile floors, and toys for your birds, then do it for yourself and enjoy it.

 

[galanie]

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My birds all make their own artwork. You don't want to know the medium.

FOO FOO CHICKENS! HOW DARE YOU!

 

[al6517]

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LOL yeah I see yer point.................... maybe because Foo-Foo birds decor is against our religion

. I do have a metal chicken feed sign on the wall in the breeder coop and some feed sack's scattered around and an old licenses plate or two decoratoring the area LOL.

My art work has wing's, nice lacing, and a healthy 2 beat crow built on 2 nice short stumps................. Leonardo Devinci called them... Cornish, and graced their image on the Cistine Chapel the guy who points his finger in that famous pose is pointing at a nice image of the Hulkster in full pose...............

So we don't need no art lol.

AL

 

[Minniechickmama]

Actually, I don't have any artwork, yet, but the inside of my breeder house looks like this:

The outside looks like this:

From the corner of the pasture:

It isn't quite finished. I hoping to do so this week and have everyone in their appropriate pens. The building that is up on a a raised foundation is the brooder house.
The ducks are on the left in the one picture with a small duck house, but no one went in it until a month ago when they decided to start laying. Oh, wait, the chickens helped themselves to it and would lay their eggs in there instead of their boxes.
All the small coops and pens you see are portable. There are some that you can't see in the corner of the pasture.

I know, foo foo. But I look at it this way.... When I have to walk out there when the temperature is 20 below zero, and the wind chill is 40 below, and there are snow drifts all around, the last thing I want to see walking in to do chores is more white! Also, I have been reading up on colors, especially with lighting, for chickens and Blue is supposed to encourage mating and laying, while Red supports good growing for juvies and meaties. Even if it is a bunch of hoopla, I am going to enjoy going in there to do my chores much more with the colors I have chosen. By the way, it is Parsley Sprig and Peacock Sky. There is a tree painted on the door where I stood to take the inside picture, and I have a few colors to splatter for flowers as well.

 

[Tracydr]

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Nice!

 

[Illia]

Wow, that's actually very neat!

 

[al6517]

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Very very nice, you will love doing chores in that barn, and montering and watching good breeders develop will be easy to do in such a great set-up.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I forgot to add, each pen will have an outdoor run. Then the pasture will be split up in 4 sections, 1 ducks and 3 for chickens, so that I can rotate pens out to range on pasture. One paddock will be for meaties and one for grow out. The perimeter fence is 5 feet high and I plan to put a hot wire on the outside that will run off solar. I am working on incorporating solar to heat water for winter and to run lights. I am going use LED lighting and found a place with a booth at our State Fair I am looking into to setting up a lighting system. I may be putting suspended pens/cages, for my bantam Wyandottes and Silkies on the back wall of some of the pens. Almost all my breeds are large and don't need a high roost, so I can mount them on the wall above the roost.
By the way, this is an open-air design for those who haven't read my ramblings before. Amazingly, when the end doors are closed, the wind does not blow in much at all. The windows are 4-feet by 5-feet and face south to capture the low sun in the winter, and there are 4 clear roof panels on the south slope of the roof. I actually wish I hadn't put the clear panels on because it allows for more heat in there than I would like to have, I may cover them from the inside.
The floor is getting linoleum laid for easy cleaning. Under the windows will be a built in tray for sand so that if any rain or snow does come in, it is not getting into shavings and making a wet mess that can harbor bacteria and cause problems. I got that from a fellow PE on her (PE=Poultry Enthusiast

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There are 9 pens. I then have two small coops that I am going to be raising up off the ground and putting floors in, and two wooden tractors that are a pain in the rear to move around without the use of a small tractor, so those may be made into separate breeding pens or grow-out pens in the pasture. They both look like this without the big wheels on one:

I am sure it will be all good when I get it done, but we are now running against the clock. Typical for us this time of year. Hubby is off this week to plant garlic and help me get things tied up.