Story of a boy and his chickens.

[Zackman23434]

I have many pictures and will probably break this into a few post.
My name is Zack, I recently moved to Edenton NC where I purchased a house and 4 acres of land. I received my 14 little girls and guys 6 weeks ago from Murray McMurray and have been enslaved to building and tending to chickens every day after work since.

 

[Zackman23434]

Some more painting getting done. Any ideas on incorporating white into the run? I'm think just white on the door itself but if I can find a way to do both that would not look tacky I would do it. I was thinking, have all vertical post and rails white plus the door and then all horizontal rails green or vice versa but i just can't picture it and again I want it too look nice.

Couple of the boys chilling out a couple weeks ago.

 

[aart]

My wife recently just got a decent Sony camera. Maybe my next photos will be using that if I can learn how two effectively use it. It has a long delay focus compared to just my phone, which is not good for snapping moving targets!

I think what you're using is working just fine.... if it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it.

 

[JanetMarie]

All the pictures are nice. Good to see someone else who takes lots of pics of their birds, which reminded me that I needed to take some updated pics of mine.

 

[UrbanFarmOC]

My dad taught me the feel the pelvis and I'm so glad he did, especially since not all of them will squat. When my pullets are at POL, I love checking the spacing between the pelvic points and noting the progress and the widening as they get closer and closer to laying.

 

[Zackman23434]

 

[Zackman23434]

Please keep in mind I have never built anything before or raised chickens. And the story begins.

6 weeks and 2 days ago I received my 14 little ones. (16 shipped two DOA)
I received 5 delewares, and 8 Rhode Island reds, also got the free rare chicken who turned out to be a golden laced wyndotte. I asked for 1 male of each and it worked out.

 

[Zackman23434]

 

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[Zackman23434]

The previous owner left plenty of hardie board so I took advantage. I will be painting this when complete. Basically only did the front before I begin work on the inside as chickens were getting to large for my makeshift brooder. I will continue story and pictures tomorrow as I need to rest before continuing work on the run which I just set and concreted the post for.