The Middle Tennessee Thread

[fireman0298]

Your welcome!

 

[WestNashChick]

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Ps- I LOVE your jadeite bowl!

Thank you!! I collect it!

 

[TNHouseSwyft]

I must have been spoiled with some good pullets from @DMRippy ! The day I purchased 4x choc Wyandottes, we had one lay within 30 minutes of being in the coop. She must have been ready to lay before the trip to her new home.

Our first week (Jan 10) we were getting 1-2 eggs per day. Since then we've been getting mostly 2 or 3 egg days. Even on the coldest days, we still had 2 girls laying. Just this past weekend, we had our first 4 egg day! The girls all prefer laying in the same box too!

I've been reading that while the weather plays a big part, their happiness/stress level plays a big role in whether they lay or not.
We just started letting them out of the coop/run to start free ranging and foraging for a couple hours before sunset. I'm hoping that keeps them laying!




This one is at the top of the pecking order. She will follow me around the yard, and when I'm cleaning out the coop she will peck at my shoes for attention. She somehow knows when I have mealworms...

 

[DMRippy]

I must have been spoiled with some good pullets from @DMRippy ! The day I purchased 4x choc Wyandottes, we had one lay within 30 minutes of being in the coop. She must have been ready to lay before the trip to her new home.

Our first week (Jan 10) we were getting 1-2 eggs per day. Since then we've been getting mostly 2 or 3 egg days. Even on the coldest days, we still had 2 girls laying. Just this past weekend, we had our first 4 egg day! The girls all prefer laying in the same box too!

I've been reading that while the weather plays a big part, their happiness/stress level plays a big role in whether they lay or not.
We just started letting them out of the coop/run to start free ranging and foraging for a couple hours before sunset. I'm hoping that keeps them laying!




This one is at the top of the pecking order. She will follow me around the yard, and when I'm cleaning out the coop she will peck at my shoes for attention. She somehow knows when I have mealworms...

You have been getting more eggs than ME! I have them under lights too LOL. Glad you are enjoying them. I am going to put my 3 with my White Wyandotte and see if that will make them BIGGER. Maybe I need to free range all my dottes. .....

 

[alerievay]

Anyone have a good source for a temporary coop or chicken tractor? We are moving, and our coop is staying, so we need some quick housing for our 4 hens.

 

[Wasson6Pack]

Anyone have a good source for a temporary coop or chicken tractor? We are moving, and our coop is staying, so we need some quick housing for our 4 hens.  

We built quick ones from deconstructed pallets. Free parts and pottery much no cutting.

 

[alerievay]

Thanks! That's a possible idea, but I would rather get something pre-made at this point, if at all possible.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Amazon.com has small ones. They are expensive, but quick to assemble.

 

[RedRidge]

Anyone have a good source for a temporary coop or chicken tractor? We are moving, and our coop is staying, so we need some quick housing for our 4 hens.  

Here's one we knocked together in just one afternoon. It's made from one piece of siding and some 2x4s. We made it 3x6 to easily fit in the back of a truck for our daughter's 3 chickens (she was moving into a rental for a year). It has a large pull cord and she moves it daily and puts it on the garden spot in the winter.
We've made one similar to this that was 4x8 also.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

That's a great little coop! I need to throw something like that together to use as a grow out pen. I keep hatching, and I keep running out of brooder space. Something like that would be perfect (though I'd probably go a little bigger), I could move it around and still keep it close enough to the house so I can stick a heat lamp in it.