Texas

[reindeermama]

Boy, those Sunrise Coops look nice. So does your new one Fire Ant Farm. Hopefully one of these days I will feel confident enought to build a coop. That is true, it just depends on how fast you want to get started. I ordered mine from Urban Coop. I waited for about a month and then it shipped to our home. It took 1 day to ship. The shipping was around $100.00

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Boy, those Sunrise Coops look nice. So does your new one Fire Ant Farm. Hopefully one of these days I will feel confident enought to build a coop. That is true, it just depends on how fast you want to get started. I ordered mine from Urban Coop. I waited for about a month and then it shipped to our home. It took 1 day to ship. The shipping was around $100.00

Thanks - I'm pretty proud of myself for getting it done. The instructions were really clear. There were a lot of collateral benefits as well - I learned a LOT about building things that I will be able to use to build other things (tractors, etc.), and I have the confidence to do so. It was intimidating at first, but I'm so glad I did it. (Though I need a rest!) I'm actually going to build them some of the structures in the Garden Run next (like little connecting rooms). I'll say, one benefit of starting with something smaller first if you're new to chickens is that it's easier to build a coop if you already know what you want out of it from having taken care of your birds for a while. I made a couple small tweaks in the plans that I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

- Ant Farm

 

[kenmlang]

Hello everyone. I am still alive, barely, but still going strong. I have to make an announcement though, I am not building coops anymore. I will still build the run panels, but not coops. The overhead is too steep. I love doing it, but I cannot make any money on it and be competitive. I hope everyone understands, this is a business decision.

 

[hungnguyen]

Hello all,

I am new to the thread and had a few questions. I have recently become interested in raising a few chicken for laying and wondered if anyone has answers to my questions. First I will start off by asking:

1. Does anyone live in San Marcos, Texas that raises chickens in a residencial backyard?
2. From what I gathered the max you can have in residential is 6 hens with no rooster but I have no idea where to confirm this.
3. I plan to purchase a coop from Amazon and wondered what others recommend from their experience. I only desire 4 hens max and have a specific one in mind.
5. Does anyone have any experience with a gluten free and grain free feed for their chickens.

I truly appreciate any help that you can provide and I am excited to start my project of preparing for our chickens.

You can buy some coops in the local hardware/feed store. Not sure which one is local for San Marcos, but in South Austin where hwy 71 meets 183, Callahan has so many coops .

 

[hensfortherapy]

Hello all,

I am new to the thread and had a few questions. I have recently become interested in raising a few chicken for laying and wondered if anyone has answers to my questions. First I will start off by asking:

1. Does anyone live in San Marcos, Texas that raises chickens in a residencial backyard?
2. From what I gathered the max you can have in residential is 6 hens with no rooster but I have no idea where to confirm this.
3. I plan to purchase a coop from Amazon and wondered what others recommend from their experience. I only desire 4 hens max and have a specific one in mind.
5. Does anyone have any experience with a gluten free and grain free feed for their chickens.

I truly appreciate any help that you can provide and I am excited to start my project of preparing for our chickens.

Make sure you do not have a Home Owner's Association (HOA) that does not allow poultry to save yourself a headache.

 

[reindeermama]

regul8r85 San Marcus had something at the library about backyard chickens. You might want to call them. It is true sometimes Home owner associations have different rules.

 

[orumpoultry]

Ken, totally understandable. Miss your dancing butt around here!

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

That makes sense to me, Ken. We all have to take stock now and again regarding business decisions.

 

[Eliza1313]

Hello all,

I am new to the thread and had a few questions. I have recently become interested in raising a few chicken for laying and wondered if anyone has answers to my questions. First I will start off by asking:

1. Does anyone live in San Marcos, Texas that raises chickens in a residencial backyard?
2. From what I gathered the max you can have in residential is 6 hens with no rooster but I have no idea where to confirm this.
3. I plan to purchase a coop from Amazon and wondered what others recommend from their experience. I only desire 4 hens max and have a specific one in mind.
5. Does anyone have any experience with a gluten free and grain free feed for their chickens.

I truly appreciate any help that you can provide and I am excited to start my project of preparing for our chickens.

Starting out with a pre-built is ok, but for most of them you can buy better materials for less and build your own. I do recommend having the coop before getting the birds, even if you are getting chicks or hatching eggs. I didn't this year, and regret it. Have been playing catch-up with coop building just to keep up with the space they need.

As for a gluten and grain free feed do a search within the nutrition section of the forum, there is a lot of info there. I am not sure you will find a recipe that is completely grain free though, a lot of what I saw contained oats. As mentioned there are a few soy-free and non-gmo feeds manufactured in Texas, but they are not completely grain free and not gluten free. I have worked with the nutritionist at my local grower's coop and I am blending my own feed. It is basically gluten free other than cross-contamination, plus no soy and no corn.

 

[wday]

Ok been gone a while came back to this brite tap waterer...SWEET!!! How hard is it to train chickens to use it? And any tips for training them to it would be appreciated