The following is the steps we took to soon becoming chicken wranglers
1. Spend many years, while standing in front of the organic eggs at the market, having 2 minute conversations about how nice it would be to have chickens to produce our own free range organic eggs, but never do anything about it.
2. Read an article about heritage chickens, spend last week researching heritage breeds and decide some Dominiques would be a good match. In a moment of weakness order 15 pullets and 2 cockerals.
3. Frantically spend the next week reading hundreds and hundreds of posts on BackYardChickens to become knowledgable on how to house, feed, water, and generally care for the above ordered chicks.
4. Purchase or scrounge up necessary items and set up a brooder in husbands office. Wait for husband to return from his business trip and see his new work companions for the next 6 weeks. Both husband and chicks will arrive home this Friday.
5. Continue reading posts on BackYardChickens and begin designing the best way to take a 24'x12' stall in the barn and turn it into a safe house for our chickens--nest boxes, poops boards, scratch, diatomaceous earth, roosts, predators, bedding, dust baths, automatic waterers, feed...
6. Spend the next 6 weeks completing #5 and convincing the goats that the barn is big enough to share with a few chickens.
Not Sure if we did all this in the correct order, but sometimes we work better under pressure.
Still a newbie her so no super special signature or avatar,
Shannon, husband, son 16, daughter 18, 9 Neapolitan mastiffs, 10 goats and 1 cat
1. Spend many years, while standing in front of the organic eggs at the market, having 2 minute conversations about how nice it would be to have chickens to produce our own free range organic eggs, but never do anything about it.
2. Read an article about heritage chickens, spend last week researching heritage breeds and decide some Dominiques would be a good match. In a moment of weakness order 15 pullets and 2 cockerals.
3. Frantically spend the next week reading hundreds and hundreds of posts on BackYardChickens to become knowledgable on how to house, feed, water, and generally care for the above ordered chicks.
4. Purchase or scrounge up necessary items and set up a brooder in husbands office. Wait for husband to return from his business trip and see his new work companions for the next 6 weeks. Both husband and chicks will arrive home this Friday.
5. Continue reading posts on BackYardChickens and begin designing the best way to take a 24'x12' stall in the barn and turn it into a safe house for our chickens--nest boxes, poops boards, scratch, diatomaceous earth, roosts, predators, bedding, dust baths, automatic waterers, feed...
6. Spend the next 6 weeks completing #5 and convincing the goats that the barn is big enough to share with a few chickens.
Not Sure if we did all this in the correct order, but sometimes we work better under pressure.
Still a newbie her so no super special signature or avatar,
Shannon, husband, son 16, daughter 18, 9 Neapolitan mastiffs, 10 goats and 1 cat
