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[FridayYet]

I've been trying to come up with a way to fashion a "safe house" for them without having to go out and spend a lot of money. Today is the second day I have let them out of the brooding cages in the coop and sat in there to "protect them". I was hoping by a week they would be able to move around in the run without having the others attack them.

Anything that can keep a big chicken out could work. I improvised this a couple years ago
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Oh those were the other ones I meant to comment on how pretty they were when you posted pics! The black japs.
I think it was Ruby that posted a pic of a piece of wood with a small hole in it, mounted to the fence between the sets. The little ones can get thru it but the big ones can't. And it has a flap that can be totally closed. I loved the idea, but it wont work with mine now. You could maybe even make it with cardboard! Until it rains... Lol. But could be easily replaced. If you have a place for it.

Once I make my permanent breeding area/grow-out area, I'm going to add one of those in, too. Now I have the cheap version (below)

Those are really the only ones that you should count, right? All the rest are meant for the crock pot or to be some one else's lawn ornaments.

Can you make a run within the run, with small doors through the fencing. I like the plastic 1" chicken wire for that purpose. It's pretty cheap.

That's what I did, just a rectangular area of 3' chicken wire held up by those green garden stakes along one wall of the run. Roof is that green plastic 1" stuff, that hangs across some sticks.tied to the stakes. It's inside my run, so doesn't need to be sturdy. I lean one stake out at the bottom next to the wall to let the littles in & out.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Those are really the only ones that you should count, right? All the rest are meant for the crock pot or to be some one else's lawn ornaments.

Can you make a run within the run, with small doors through the fencing. I like the plastic 1" chicken wire for that purpose. It's pretty cheap.

I'm not sure. It's the incutherm thermometer/hydrometer combo. Not sure to to check it without getting it wet and not sure if that will screw it up.

I will pray for you. You sound like you need it. I am sorry things are difficult for you. And yes you sound like you need 2 to 3 drinks tonight!!!

Anything that can keep a big chicken out could work. I improvised this a couple years ago
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Once I make my permanent breeding area/grow-out area, I'm going to add one of those in, too. Now I have the cheap version (below)

That's what I did, just a rectangular area of 3' chicken wire held up by those green garden stakes along one wall of the run. Roof is that green plastic 1" stuff, that hangs across some sticks.tied to the stakes. It's inside my run, so doesn't need to be sturdy. I lean one stake out at the bottom next to the wall to let the littles in & out.

Thanks for the ideas. I have extra chicken wire, just wasn't sure how I wanted to "fashion" it...lol

 

[WalnutHill]

Vodka makes me combative. Whiskey makes me warm, then stupid. Imagine me like I am here, only drunk... Not a pretty sight

Good tequila is just totally relaxing, like melting into the chair relaxing

Alcohol makes me smarter than I really am.

 

[FridayYet]

Thanks for the ideas. I have extra chicken wire, just wasn't sure how I wanted to "fashion" it...lol

I won't post pictures of what I'm using now - it's pretty ugly, but it works. (It was supposed to be temp for 1 batch - now the second is using it and we'll see if the broody babies hatch.)

 

[FridayYet]

Alcohol makes me smarter than I really am.

Alcohol tends to remove the block to my natural sarcasm. Working 20 years in a Faith Based Hospital left me more scars on my tongue than I care to remember.

 

[FridayYet]

This is inside the shed from the coop side. (while still under construction) The door has that 1" plastic mesh on it. When they are ready, I'll cut a hole in it small enough to keep the big ones out.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

This is inside the shed from the coop side. (while still under construction) The door has that 1" plastic mesh on it. When they are ready, I'll cut a hole in it small enough to keep the big ones out.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Finally have my phone (where the pics are) and the charger in range of wifi and in out of the sun so I can see the pictures...

Dry Lake, about 5 miles further up the hill from our campsite.

It's a ways down...

Hurdy Gurdy Creek went through the campground.

A few shots out of the truck window.

More pics next post...

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Finally have my phone (where the pics are) and the charger in range of wifi and in out of the sun so I can see the pictures...


Dry Lake, about 5 miles further up the hill from our campsite.


It's a ways down...


Hurdy Gurdy Creek went through the campground.


A few shots out of the truck window.

More pics next post...

Nice.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Swimming hole, and a Paperlady ;-)

Thought I'd throw in a couple of pics from walking distance from home...