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the coop part has 3 warming lights and bedded with pine shavings, their food is in there also
the chicks are only 3 weeks so i had to section off the more open area, they huddle under the ramps until i sit out there with them, then they come out and disperse
 
o my days!!! the poop thing!!! ewwwwwww!! I started by bringing her in at night and she had a spot in the bathroom, come morning i would put her back out and then again backin at night, it was so adorable, because when she'd see me at the gate at 7p-8p, she would "come a runnin'!!!" That began in September. When the temps reached over 100's she began paying attention to my cats who have always came and gone as it pleases them.....that is how she learned the window thing... by Nov-Dec, during the day she would go outside to do her business, just like the cats, but at night or early morning she does still have her occassional mishaps....if i keep her diet right, it's very formed and an easy clean up....my cats are revolted by those occassions

OMG, I'm loving your posts. MsKornKorn is a very smart girl.
 
Hello ren...how are you enjoying this fine Saturday?

Loving it and you? I got the ducks a new swimming pool last night and I've just been sitting here drinking coffee and watching them. Gotta get outside and quit wasting daylight now, lol. We have Barred Rocks also. They are soooo sweet and I can't wait til we start laying eggs. Have a great weekend.
 

the coop part has 3 warming lights and bedded with pine shavings, their food is in there also
the chicks are only 3 weeks so i had to section off the more open area, they huddle under the ramps until i sit out there with them, then they come out and disperse

Nice. Huddling? This is usually a sign they are cold. Be sure they are staying warm enough. At 3 weeks they should be in a draft free environment and a temperature of about 80 degrees.
 
Chicken math?? Ok, well I am an educated person but is chicken math about adding more chickens to your flock or counting them to make sure they are all there?? I'm guessing it's the adding more but I've got this condition where I have to count everybody every time I go out and at night when I lock them up to make sure all are accounted for.
 
A great weekend to all
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I'm out now to enjoy this beautiful day God has given us here.
 
Here they are in their brooder, still warm and cozy, it's still about 65 outside, won't put them out til this afternoon, supposed to reach the high 70s and then corral them up again and bring them in for the night.






Lookie lookie....
 
WOWWW!!! It's SO beautiful! It is SO PRETTY that I'm compelled to write my very first post!!  Bravo to you ClovisMan, for yours, is an awesome coop... and somewhere in chickenland, I am sure that Ms. KornKorn's agenda is considered an awesome "coup"

I am brand new to "fowl play"... I was adopted this last summer by an adult hen who just showed up in my backyard one day and insisted on me becoming a part of her life....  That was June 2013 and I've been literally "winging it" by following HER lead, the advice of my 2 cats, perusing at BYC, and random ideas fueled by adult beverages...

I don't know where it went Left......but that chicken...Ms. KornKorn... now comes and goes as she pleases thru my office window that I leave open for her all day. Her food bowls are in the kitchen next to the cat's bowls. She went from hanging out in the corner of the yard and sleeping in a tree at night to having a climate controlled spot of her choice...sofa, bar stool, top of file cabinets, or end of my bed. There are eight 3 week old chicks under a heat lamp in a storage bin, that I am ready to transition to a backyard coop I have built by "heart" and not by reason...  Pics are to come...

I hope you built a big enough coop. Chicken math will get you. And you will love it.
 
Thank you so much all of you for the warm welcome!! 

After plenty of on-line surfing and asking around, I have successfully identified Ms.KornKorn as a RIR or Texas Red; apparently her kind is bred for meat....nonononon

My cats both love her dearly and are very protective, if she is outdoors, at least one is with her at all times, but for a little while one of my next door neighbors had some funny little looking tribal chickens that would jump the 6 ft privacy fence and hang out with KornKorn for the day on/off. She LOVED it and would beat them outside before daybreak to be ready for them, she was dominate over them....she such a big girl....She sleeps in the house at night, and right next to either cat that's in.... So when spring chicks started selling last month, i bought the eight 1 wk olders from a feed supply store...they were just little puffs of cottons.... 2 RIR, 2 Newhampshire Reds, 2 golden sex links and 2 buff orpingtons which i have fallen so hard in love with!!! The BO's are so very brave and curious and personable! They melt my heart, they are so loving and when i hold them, it's like holding a little rainbow.... my family & friends are on the verge of calling the men in white....LOL


Is that Ms Kornkorn as your avatar?
 

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