Surviving Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

MNChickMom. I will sit on your John Deere and make the circles. LOL. Love doing it. It's my thinking time and very satisfying. Have always loved it. You'd have to arrange for Bernice to come over after though so I could catch up on Derm Gossip.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Morning
Same here with the mowing.
How are Russian dills different than polish dills?

Okay Erli. I just googled Polish Dill recipe.
They use just a salt brine and have mustard seeds.

These Russian Dills have a salty Sweet brine, jalapeno and no mustard seeds. Everything else looks about the same.

 

[jerryse]

In town again . Should finish the subfloor today . Put away and packing tomorrow . Anxious to get back to my garden . I should have plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers . My tundra garden is a bust . Might get ripe tomatoes in another month . Grass has not been cut back home in about 5 weeks .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

This bulb was new when I brooded my crew this spring. So used 5-6 weeks. One week of brooding Jerry's chicks and I noted the light was out this morning. Glass bulb hanging by one skinny wire out of the socket. I also use a heavy duty premiere supplies sheep lamp instead of the 7 dollar aluminum L & M special. But nonetheless unnerving to find this this morning. Looks like the glue that holds the glass in the brass was cooked and crumbly. Don't buy these Westinghouse bulbs.

Jerry might not let me chicksit again....

 

[I Love Layers]

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This bulb was new when I brooded my crew this spring. So used 5-6 weeks. One week of brooding Jerry's chicks and I noted the light was out this morning. Glass bulb hanging by one skinny wire out of the socket. I also use a heavy duty premiere supplies sheep lamp instead of the 7 dollar aluminum L & M special. But nonetheless unnerving to find this this morning. Looks like the glue that holds the glass in the brass was cooked and crumbly. Don't buy these Westinghouse bulbs.

Jerry might not let me chicksit again....

Use reptile lights are impossible to break and sometimes cheaper

 

[Elise Ferguson]

Here's the unfinished interior of our coop. Any suggestions on layout?

I was thinking 2-4 laying boxes (haven't built them yet). Gonna make a PVC feeder and I have a fleet farm bucket and the drinking cups to make a bigger waterer (probably just set that on a cinder block). But where to put the perches and the nesting boxes. 2 walls with windows and one wall with a door, 10x12' floor. Need to get the rest of the walls done and the floor fixed up of course.

Also might have to make the chicken door bigger for these brahmas.

 

[MNChickMom]

Here's the unfinished interior of our coop. Any suggestions on layout?

I was thinking 2-4 laying boxes (haven't built them yet). Gonna make a PVC feeder and I have a fleet farm bucket and the drinking cups to make a bigger waterer (probably just set that on a cinder block). But where to put the perches and the nesting boxes. 2 walls with windows and one wall with a door, 10x12' floor. Need to get the rest of the walls done and the floor fixed up of course. View attachment 1111362 Also might have to make the chicken door bigger for these brahmas.

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I have a small "feed room" off to the side inside my coop for storage. I store my feed, medical supplies and additional waterers etc. Best move ever.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Elise. I wish there was a LOVE button on BYC.... Seriously.

 

[Elise Ferguson]

Elise. I wish there was a LOVE button on BYC.... Seriously.

Heh from the moment we bought my husband's great uncle's property that housed this coop, I claimed it for myself. Originally it was going to be a play house for the kids. But when we moved out here we decided why not get some chickens. The kids are spoilt enough as it is, they don't need a play house so i sweet talked my father in law into loading it up on a hay wagon and dragging it over to our place (only lost a few panes of glass in the process).

It's turned out to be a bit larger project than anticipated and the inlaws think we're nuts for not just tinning the roof and calling it a day. But my dad is a carpenter at heart and has been giving us some tips and helped us get the cedar shake going properly and it just wouldn't be right to tin over all this history. I'm sure my husband is looking forward to moving onto his own projects soon.

 

[lvie]

Heh from the moment we bought my husband's great uncle's property that housed this coop, I claimed it for myself. Originally it was going to be a play house for the kids. But when we moved out here we decided why not get some chickens. The kids are spoilt enough as it is, they don't need a play house so i sweet talked my father in law into loading it up on a hay wagon and dragging it over to our place (only lost a few panes of glass in the process).

It's turned out to be a bit larger project than anticipated and the inlaws think we're nuts for not just tinning the roof and calling it a day. But my dad is a carpenter at heart and has been giving us some tips and helped us get the cedar shake going properly and it just wouldn't be right to tin over all this history. I'm sure my husband is looking forward to moving onto his own projects soon.

Elise - I love that coop! Do you need any chickens to go into it. I have nine chickens that lay and one rooster who is very nice and I am over populated. I would let them go to someone on here. The Roo is nice, gentle and quiet crow! Why let laying chickens go? I just do not want this many chickens. I do not want to get another coop to overwinter them. Let me know.