The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Leahs Mom]

Okay...I'm trying to interpret which side I'm seeing in the photo below:

It looks like the side marked "east side" on the drawing is the one with the large doors on the right of this photo. Am I getting that right (even though it might not really be east!)

Are the large doors "overhead" that go up like garage doors? Or are they on sliders?

 

[aoxa]

Okay...I'm trying to interpret which side I'm seeing in the photo below:

It looks like the side marked "east side" on the drawing is the one with the large doors on the right of this photo. Am I getting that right (even though it might not really be east!)

Are the large doors "overhead" that go up like garage doors? Or are they on sliders?

They are sliders on the INSIDE. Which is awesome, because snow can't block it. The door closest to the woodline is swing open two doors like the baby barn, and the middle one swings in like a regular entrance door. The goat area has a sliding door as well. They slide so effortlessly!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Wonderful! Inside sliders! What will they think of next

And.. why didn't they think of if when they made the pole barn at my parent's property? (Which is where we're living currently taking care of my elderly dad.) The pole barn here has 2 huge sliders that slide on the outside. Weeds, snow, ice...what have you.

I wonder what it would cost to have them reset to the inside?

 

[Leahs Mom]

Oh - one more barn question: The short side is 30 - what is the long side?

 

[aoxa]

Wonderful! Inside sliders! What will they think of next

And.. why didn't they think of if when they made the pole barn at my parent's property? (Which is where we're living currently taking care of my elderly dad.) The pole barn here has 2 huge sliders that slide on the outside. Weeds, snow, ice...what have you.

I wonder what it would cost to have them reset to the inside?

All they used was a long slider and a wheel, the bottom has a 2x4 drilled into the footer to keep it aligned. I can not imagine it costing much, especially since you already have the door itself.

Oh - one more barn question: The short side is 30 - what is the long side?

48' is the long side.

 

[stonykill]

lots more pics where these came from

 

[Leahs Mom]

Okay, Stony...do these chicken mamas need therapy after they find out they've raised swamp creatures?

 

[stonykill]

Okay, Stony...do these chicken mamas need therapy after they find out they've raised swamp creatures?

this girl has not freaked out once. She leads her lil ones out in the rain and gets herself drenched... as her babies love the rain. I watched her lead them to this puddle this morning. I'm pretty darn impressed. And she is barely 11 months old herself. She won't know the difference as anytime she goes broody she will get duck eggs

 

[midnightroo]

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this girl has not freaked out once. She leads her lil ones out in the rain and gets herself drenched... as her babies love the rain. I watched her lead them to this puddle this morning. I'm pretty darn impressed. And she is barely 11 months old herself. She won't know the difference as anytime she goes broody she will get duck eggs

. I saw the pictures on the other thing, so cute. I love that she takes them to water, perhaps she is part duck.

 

[aoxa]

this girl has not freaked out once. She leads her lil ones out in the rain and gets herself drenched... as her babies love the rain. I watched her lead them to this puddle this morning. I'm pretty darn impressed. And she is barely 11 months old herself. She won't know the difference as anytime she goes broody she will get duck eggs

I'm impressed as well. Also cool that she is using this time off to molt. Might as well do it when she's not laying anyway.