some questions just for fun

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1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?
We have 19: 7 Buff Orps, 4 Black Australorpes, 2 Blue Andalusians, 3 Ameraucanas (which now I think are EEs) & 3 Dominiques They are all pets
2.) Did you build your own coop?
We built 2 and the 3rd is a tractor bought from the Amish
3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.
The cabin coop has 2 seperate runs each 6x12 and covered, another is 75 sq. ft & L shaped. We use hay
4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?
Right now we use hay, but will switch to shavings this winter.
5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?
No
6.) what meds do you use?
None
7.) have any special foods you feed them?
The are all on layer feed plus plenty of treats.
8.)where do you live?
East Tennessee
9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter?
Sometimes we get down into the 20s, rarely in teens. I'll make sure they have thick shavings and fresh water.
10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?
One run is completley covered and the other is 1/2 covered.
11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?
Right now I get about 4 eggs per day. When the rest start laying (should be within a month) I will sell them for about $1.50 per dozen.
12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?
Thankfully not.
 
Here we go -
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?

I have 8 right now. 4 mystery hens and one mystery roo, 3 White Crested Black Polish- two pullets and one roo. They are both pets and food. The crested are pets/egg makers. The others are potenial dinners.

2.) Did you build your own coop?

Not yet. Right now we're using rabbit hutches. We have a shed kit coming in the mail this week to get sorted before winter.

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.

Ours is basically just grass and trees. It's a fenced in area that the previous owner kept her dogs in. We call it a nursery because we're going to keep our baby goats in there with the chickens till they're big enough to be put with the general goat population.


4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?

In each coop we use hay.


5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?

Our chickens have not been sick yet.


6.) what meds do you use?

None


7.) have any special foods you feed them?

I don't know about special. Feed, scraps, they have access to a lot of land to scratch and peck for bugs...


8.)where do you live?

Foothills of NC


9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for
your chickens in the winter?

Our winters are pretty mild I believe. We'll have a large coop with a light for both warmth and to encourage better egg production over the winter.


10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?

Right now there is no protective covering, exactly. But there are many places for them to walk under that would keep them dry if they didn't want to be in the rain or in the coop.


11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?

Since moving our chickens we haven't been getting but about 2 every 3 days. I have a large family, I don't know with my chickens if they'll ever make more than we can consume.

12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?

Nothing new or strange

Ok, that's it! Here are my answers. I hope everyone enjoys reading these answers as much as I do.

1.) I have many types of chickens:RRI,deleware,silkies,white rocks,buff orps,golden polish,cuckoo marans,mille fleur,partridge cochin,araucana,buttercup,white faced spanish,and ducks.All are pets
2.) No I brought my coop, I cheated -have no building talents
3.) my run is enclosed with chicken wire with a top of plastic netting to keep out pretators and keep ducks in.They share coop & run.Run floor is dirt /grass with hay to help fill in holes chickens make.
4.) Inside coop floor ismade of wood with feeder hay spread around on top seems to work ok ducks seem to eat other stuff
5.) I've had 2 sick chickens both with balance problems 1 has fully recovered (a yr ago) the other is currently sick and not doing well ( I suspect mareks?)
6.) I use mineral water, tetracycline,baytril, meloxicam (NSAID),panacur (wormer), and special mixes of feed: clear gatorade,pedilyte,plain yogurt,rolled oats,honey,dry catfood and starter crumble
7.)listed above and veggies (lots), weeds,bead,spaghetti
8.)I live in northern massachussetts
9.) Nothing special in winter maybe a heat lamp if it gets too cold,frequent water changes, and shovel out their run
10.)none currently but hope to at least get a lean to type covering to prevent some elements and give some added protection beside the dog houses I have in run area
11.) Yes we get about 8-9 eggs a day now with more expected as chickens mature,We currently just give them to family
12.) Our main differculties have been keeping the fighting roo's from jumping up and into duck swimming pools and the larger chickens from stampeding the littler ones on the way out of the coop so far we've been lucky everyone gets along for the most part.
 
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?
I have cochin bantams, Japanese bantams, Dutch bantams, Seramas, and a few mixed breeds of all listed

2.) Did you build your own coop?
Yeppers well i can't take the credit but my DH built it for less then $100 with materials we had laying around the house (it does need minor modifications which were suppose to be done before winter.

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc. My run is a 10 ft by 15 ft dog kennel with a dirt floor i add DE to the soil and rake it out every few days

4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?
I use pine shavings in the summer and a combo of both in winter months (deep litter method) the floor as of right now is sand which makes cleaning the coop floor alot easier and less money on pine shavings

5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?
When we got our first batch of babies from a hatchery 27 died out of 52 chicks due to pnemonia from shipping but other then that no illnesses so far

6.) what meds do you use?
I keep sulmet, terramycin, bluecoat, nepsporin on hand just in case

7.) have any special foods you feed them?
Lots of fresh veggies and fruit for treats along with scratch grains, once a week i feed them scrambled eggs.

8.)where do you live?
I live in Northern Minnesota

9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter?
Winters here are very cold sometimes... I keep a 250 watt heat lamp in the coop and cover the run in tarps for winter

10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?
In the summer not really, they find all kinds of hiding spots in the yard to keep dry, they are free rangers

11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?
I get about 6 eggs a day and give them to family and neighbors but if i were to sell them id ask $3 a dozen

12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?
Yeah too many roosters that are getting very difficult to rehome
 
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?

......I have standard cochins, EE's and NN's.....WFB spanish, BT japs, Silkies, Show girls, and more NN's

2.) Did you build your own coop?

......I have several differnt coops, and most i built myself...and just like my chickens, they are shapes and sizes.

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.

......grass.....and pine needles.

4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?

......shavings.

5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?

.......yes in the past 18 years there have been sick ones.

6.) what meds do you use?

.......differnt meds fore differnt things.

7.) have any special foods you feed them?

.......ummm...i give mine soaked dog food a few times a week!

8.)where do you live?

........north-east Kentucky

9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter?

.........extra beeding.

10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?

.......no they go in there coops when it rains.

11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?

.......i get lots of eggs......hatch some, give most away, and boil some and give back to the chickens for treats.

12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?

........LOL.....i seem to give my extras away......would love to sell them instead.......it would help with the feed bill
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1. I have a pair of buff silkies, two EEs, 3 BO (one roo), two RIRs, and one SLW, they are pets that lay eggs.

2. We built our own coops, one of which was a free "playhouse deer blind" that had been vandalized and we rebuilt.

3. My run, usually refered to as chickie jail, is seldom used as the birdies free range in the yard. It has grass, dirt and a stone path. I also add mulched leaves.

4. One coop has sand over linoleum, the other has mulched leaves over linoleum.

5. I had one chicken get sick, some reproductive issues, she died.

6. Only topicals for pick and bug bites on combs. DE in the dust bathing areas, and an occasional dusting with DE.

7. They get tablescraps, grapes, sunflower seeds, watermelon when its hot, wind fall pears,

8. I live in central Texas, in the 'burbs.

9. The winters are mild, on cold nights the windows are closed and covered.

10. It rains, they get wet. They could go in the coop, but never do. They occasionally hang out under the house's overhang.

11. I get 4-6 eggs a day. The silkie hasn't laid since she went broody. I give the excess to friends, and neighbors.

12. No special interesting things here, but if the silkies keep drinking out of the pond instead of their waterers, I might be able to describe a water rescue.
 
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?

I have 2 frizzled serama, 4 black star pullets and 11 reg. serama--Pets, breeding stock for the betterment of the breed

2.) Did you build your own coop?
Sort of..we have a gig concrete bld. that is like a stall and tack room with concrete floor, we moved the hay to the stall side that we dont use, the tack to the horse trailer and built roosts and nest boxes
I also built a HUGE chicken tractor, that is moveable if you have 4 people, lol

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.
There are still plants in there, mostly weeds though, like lambs quareters, I will then either use stones or may just spred out old shavings and hay...read about someones run that was a compost too and the birds mixed it up looking for bugs..hmmmm

4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?
Wood shavings and Straw in the winter

5.) Have your chickens ever been sick? Not yet, but I have one tiny chick that seems a little poor

6.) what meds do you use? Forgot the name of it, but it is this yellow powder. My friend gave it to me when I picked up the chicks for the poor one. I mix it with water. We are in cahoots in raising 50 more serama this fall and winter. He is experienced and Im new and Ill have to ask him what it is!

7.) have any special foods you feed them?
Commercial feed for what they need for their purpose-ie starter, grower, layer with lots of kitchen scraps and free range

8.)where do you live? Georgetown, KY

9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter? Got them all this spring! We will see!

10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry? The doors are open to the coops they mostly just go in, although we had a windstorm that blew our trampoline into a tree and out in the field so we took the black "tarp" part off of it and hung it over the run for shade.

11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?
Not yet. I have good stock now, but am trying to hatch eggs out with these friends, I send all but 4 hens to breed with a champion quality small roo,
I would probably sell them for about 20.00 a dozen, it seems to be good for the going rate of good seramas
12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?
Not really yet. The small chick is just so tiny, I dont think he is sick. I just think that he is an A class baby and needs a little boost!
Thanks! I have enjoyed reading these!-Jessi
 
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?
I have 18 LF brahmas, 6 buff, 6 lights, 6 darks. They're pets with benefits

2.) Did you build your own coop?
Yes and it took us forever!!

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.
No run, though we plan one in the future. The chickens free-range from morning till time to go to roost.

4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?
Pine shavings on the floor, hay in the nest boxes.

5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?
No. Lil'Bit has a vision problem, but she copes fine. I used pine tar to convince the others they didn't want to pick on her.
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6.) what meds do you use?
I have some terramycin on hand for emergencies.

7.) have any special foods you feed them?
Besides their layer pellets and oyster shell, they eat what they can find or steal from the goat or dog.

8.)where do you live? On an 80 acre farm in rural Arkansas, very rural.

9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter?
This will be their first winter. Their coop is insulated. They are a winter hardy breed. Nothing else is needed.

10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?
They go in their coop or under our carport when it rains.

11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?
They have only been laying about 5 weeks, haven't started selling yet.

12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?
Other than one roo getting a 'tude for awhile, no. His behavior was easy to correct.
 
1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food? 1 Bearded White Polish , 4 white crested black polish, 1 Buff Cochin rooster, 1 Buff Cochin,1 White Langshans, 2 Lakenvelder , 2 game birds, 4 Barred Rock, 3 Easter Eggers?, 1 Black Minorca....they are pets that make breakfast

2.) Did you build your own coop?yes we did, and won an award
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it was almost all recycled materials, wanna see? https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=41929
3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? our run is just a fence around the coop that is never close accept for at night..the ground is rock hard dirt. Our flock roam the yard all day long
4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc? We use DLM and stray in the nest boxes
5.) Have your chickens ever been sick? yes
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I lost my sweet snowball a month ago we think to a brain injury
6.) what meds do you use? for Snowball we just used love and caring since we couldnt get any prednisone(sp) and lots of fluids and vitamins
7.) have any special foods you feed them? They eat pretty much watever we do, but they LOVE bananna's and MY green tomatoes(we didnt even get any)
8.)where do you live? Vancouver Washington
9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter? This will be our first winter with chickens but their coop is insulated and has a cadet heater.
10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry? Nope...they better get used to the rain here! I do spread straw out in the mud..I hate seeing the polish with muddy heads
11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen? The eggs is our 9 yr old sons buisness. He sells for $3.00 a dozen and seld about 4 dozen a week
12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?If we have we have posted it here and always got help!!
 
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1.) what kind of chickens do you have? and how many? Are they pets or food?
I have 4 red sexlinks that are 6 months old. And 10 little ones supposedly Rhode Island Reds, but only 3 of them are red. The others are some sort of mutt. Three of them are roosters. They are pets.

2.) Did you build your own coop?
I didn't but BirdHearder (DH) did- And is working on coop #2

3.) what does your run look like? what do you use for the floor of your run? Hay, grass, stones,sand,etc.
Run is fully enclosed in chicken wire. Used to be grass, but now is dirt. But they get fress grass clippings weekly.

4.) what about the inside of the coop do you use hay, shaving,wood chips,etc?
Shavings- with past chickens we used hay. I like shavings better

5.) Have your chickens ever been sick?
Had 1 die at 5 days old from pasty butt. Had another get "retrieved" by neighbors dog. Luckily it was just a few feathers missing. And I think a little brain damage .

6.) what meds do you use?
None

7.) have any special foods you feed them?
They get treats- fruits, veggies, rice

8.)where do you live?
Maryland- between the Atlantic and the Chesapeake

9.) how are your winters do you do anything special for your chickens in the winter?
Winters aren't very bad- generally around freezing. I don't know what we'll do- but no heatlamps. We had heatlamps on our last chickens 5 years ago, and it resulted in a fire.

10.) how about wet weather do you have any protective covering over your run to keep chickens dry?
There is a section that has a covered porch. When it rains-they play in the unprotected area

11.) are you getting eggs? If so do you sell them? How much do you ask a dozen?
Right now, 4 eggs a day from the older ones. The younger ones are 17 weeks old, so soon we'll have more. Most eggs go to neighbors for free, for allowing the chickens to roam their yards. I did make our first sale- $3.00/dz

12.) Have you run into any differculties with your chickens that others may be interested in?
So far, nothing. But if I do, I'd definately share here.
 

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