Texas

[uglychickens]

I had an appointment to take my dog to the vet today... He jumped out the car window and broke his leg in three places...he's always loved car rides and never did that before... Hope he don't do that again after the vet bill took out our entire months salary...

 

[Zootopia]

Melissa Rose!!! (Happy Dance!! ) Cant figure out how to do that on my phone
Huggs from Freddie and me!! He said he can identify. ;8)

Now to sleep, I've been reading (and biting my tongue ) for too long.

 

[RachaelS]

Okay, so while I am not 100% chickenless, if you count the three roosters that don't know they are chickens

. I am thinking I really want some chickens again, but alas I am torn, LOL! I can not make a "chicken math" mistake again, so I need to think this out and really do it right. I LOVE Cubalayas, but Cream Legbars are great layers and I like them also, then the Speckled Sussex holds a special place in my heart, finally my first love was Barnevelders. Dang chickens so many choices so little room.

Any way while I am trying to figure that I need to improve my enclosures. My DH built the coop running East to West, instead of North to South, so I have issues there and I can NOT change that. It is buried concrete for the main support beams. One thought I had was to plant a crape mrytal in the run, if you have ever stood under one, they "rain" and keep it cool. Does anyone know of any downsides of doing that?

My next plan is every time DH mows, I am going to throw the clippings in the run to get a nice deep littler going on. Would it be bad to also start throwing veggie trimmings in it, kind of creating a compost heap in the run, so when the girls get there they should be nice and happy. Any thoughts there?

Kind of excited to really think this time through and do it right.

 

[mandaleigh1981]

On a lighter note!

 

[mandaleigh1981]

Okay, so while I am not 100% chickenless, if you count the three roosters that don't know they are chickens

. I am thinking I really want some chickens again, but alas I am torn, LOL! I can not make a "chicken math" mistake again, so I need to think this out and really do it right. I LOVE Cubalayas, but Cream Legbars are great layers and I like them also, then the Speckled Sussex holds a special place in my heart, finally my first love was Barnevelders. Dang chickens so many choices so little room.

Any way while I am trying to figure that I need to improve my enclosures. My DH built the coop running East to West, instead of North to South, so I have issues there and I can NOT change that. It is buried concrete for the main support beams. One thought I had was to plant a crape mrytal in the run, if you have ever stood under one, they "rain" and keep it cool. Does anyone know of any downsides of doing that?

My next plan is every time DH mows, I am going to throw the clippings in the run to get a nice deep littler going on. Would it be bad to also start throwing veggie trimmings in it, kind of creating a compost heap in the run, so when the girls get there they should be nice and happy. Any thoughts there?

Kind of excited to really think this time through and do it right.

I would love to hear about the compost and deep litter from people who have done it!

 

[RachaelS]

On a lighter note!

 

[uglychickens]

To cute! Where did you find that?

 

[mandaleigh1981]

To cute! Where did you find that?

Facebook, where else? LOL I have absolutely nothing better to do!

 

[uglychickens]

Okay, so while I am not 100% chickenless, if you count the three roosters that don't know they are chickens .  I am thinking I really want some chickens again, but alas I am torn, LOL!  I can not make a "chicken math" mistake again, so I need to think this out and really do it right.  I LOVE Cubalayas, but Cream Legbars are great layers and I like them also, then the Speckled Sussex holds a special place in my heart, finally my first love was Barnevelders. Dang chickens so many choices so little room. 

Any way while I am trying to figure that I need to improve my enclosures.  My DH built the coop running East to West, instead of North to South, so I have issues there and I can NOT change that.  It is buried concrete for the main support beams.  One thought I had was to plant a crape mrytal in the run, if you have ever stood under one, they "rain" and keep it cool.  Does anyone know of any downsides of doing that?

My next plan is every time DH mows, I am going to throw the clippings in the run to get a nice deep littler going on.  Would it be bad to also start throwing veggie trimmings in it, kind of creating a compost heap in the run, so when the girls get there they should be nice and happy.  Any thoughts there?

Kind of excited to really think this time through and do it right.

I can't talk on the other points but I've heard of organic compost companies putting huge piles of stuff in a big enclosure and the chickens scratch through it and poop making the best soil! So can't see how veggy peels and yard clippings can be anything but beneficial...

 

[mandaleigh1981]