My plan (so far)...(subject to change).
After reading/looking at tons of info on raising chickens and coops on-line, I have come up with these ideas. Tell me if I am off base on anything....
I want this coop. There are a couple of others that I like, but I keep coming back to this one. I want to enclose it in a large run area. I'll post a photo of the place when my yard dries out more from all this rain we've had. I plan on using hardware cloth to keep out as much as I can. Not sure what I will put on the top, but I need something to keep the hawks/owls and squirrels out.
I have decided to use the DL method and FF along with sprouted feed. I will have a tub for dust baths.
Not sure how to do a compost area. Will have to read up on that.
I need to make a brooder. I like the one on here made from a cabinet.
I need to figure out feeding still, like what types of dishes are best, amounts, and feeding the babies. Heat for the winter... Nesting boxes.
I'm sure there is much more I need to figure out and learn, but right now my head is starting to spin from information overload today. Starting a 'notebook' for info on my computer.
Man! There is a lot to learn!
sounds like your making the right plans-just remember no metal pans if your going to do the ff 
& welcome to the Texas thread
Looks like some very happy chickiesOur version of "Babies day out"......second day of getting to go to the garden with dad in the morning!!! THEY LOVE IT!! And in the last pic Bully seems to be a little interested in Ms Rosey this morning
Thank you.
I'm just north of San Antonio in the Hill Country. Our mayor wrote a delightful editorial piece on how bicyclists were endangering cars. He was furious he couldn't pass them safely, felt they had no business interfering with motor vehicles so ended up yelling and screaming at them when they complained to him he had passed them very unsafely. People forget that a bicycle is a vehicle and has a right to use the road. I haven't been on my bicycle since my head injury in a car accident in January. I haven't had good balance up until very recently, but I think I do now. I'm looking forward to starting riding again, but am really afraid with all the anti-cycling sentiment. My crazy husband feels the safest way to bike into work is down Hwy 281. He claims it has a huge shoulder and people don't text while driving on a big highway, unlike on smaller roads. He might have a point except a month or so ago some idiot in an SUV swerved off the road and hit him on the far right of the shoulder at about 65 mph. Miraculously, his bike stayed upright and he only had ripped shorts, lots of bruising and scrapes. It was so incredible, that the whole highway stopped to see if he was okay. The idiot just took off--what is it about this place with so many hit and runs?????!!! The witnesses took cell phone pictures of the car and texted them to 911, so the police had a photo of the front of the car and the driver before they even arrived. Haven't heard anything from the police--just incredibly thankful that he so narrowly escaped becoming road kill. Yes, he still rides to work.
What kind of parrot is this? & how are your horses doing.......
