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[gryeyes]

More pictures of the coop build at Thistle Dew Ranch:

Wiring for power.

Burying the conduit.

Installing hardware cloth in the ventilation panels. That gate to the run has now been painted to match the coop. There is a lockable latch to secure it.

John is taking today off and has another job to do elsewhere on Monday, so work will resume on Tuesday. He will build the "chicken holder" (a stand-alone roost bar thingie, similar to the one described in the "Dummies" book's Walk-In Coop).

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Rofl . . . ok, you have talked me out of goats again . . . . need to find someone I can buy milk from instead and support their goats!!

They're a lot of fun but annoying.

More pictures of the coop build at Thistle Dew Ranch:

Wiring for power.




Burying the conduit.



Installing hardware cloth in the ventilation panels. That gate to the run has now been painted to match the coop. There is a lockable latch to secure it.



John is taking today off and has another job to do elsewhere on Monday, so work will resume on Tuesday. He will build the "chicken holder" (a stand-alone roost bar thingie, similar to the one described in the "Dummies" book's Walk-In Coop).

Linda, that looks amazing. I can't believe yours is painted already and I'm putting a roof on my year old Goat Haus.

 

[Wisher1000]

John is taking today off and has another job to do elsewhere on Monday, so work will resume on Tuesday. He will build the "chicken holder" (a stand-alone roost bar thingie, similar to the one described in the "Dummies" book's Walk-In Coop).

I'm intrigued, what the heck is that?

 

[gryeyes]

When John built the pergola here at my house he called it a "grape holder." I can't recall, right now, what he once called the hitching post structure... In the Building Chicken Coops for Dummies book, there is a roost bar structure for the largest coop, built out of 2x4 and 2x3 lumber which can be moved to place it anywhere in the coop. We're going to make it wider than 58" (because my coop is 10x12, not 8x8). Basically, it's a stand similar to a "ladder" style roost, with three parallel roost bars spaced far enough apart and each slightly lower than the others so nobody poops on birds on the the lower roosts.

 

[Wisher1000]

I remember, it was a "Horse Docking Station!"

The roost is shaped like a sliding board? Or does it lean against the wall? Or is it a pyramid?

I have several sets of homemade saw horses left over from the house construction. I use them in the coop, they are easy to move when cleaning or rearranging. When they get really nasty, I can just burn them, that was what was going to happen to them anyway!

 

[ozexpat]

i have coop envy linda

bloody fantastic!

 

[Wisher1000]

Quote:
Yea, once you get a taste for stuffing sausage, it'll ruin you for anything else.......

 

[chirpingcricket]

I am always amazed at how a broody can hatch chicks, no matter the circumstances.

I didn't really expect these to hatch at all.  She would sit for two days in one nest, with her eggs then move to another.  I would move her back and she would sit a few days and move again.  If there were eggs in another nest, she'd sit there.  Finally, I put an open box with hay in it on the floor for the layers and blocked off the other nests (besides the one she was setting in.)

Then, the dog attack came.  He actually stuck his head in her nest and grabbed her but got only a mouth full of feathers as there were lots of her feathers in the nest and around the outside but she was up in the rafters, missing patches of feathers, but unharmed.  I didn't think she would go back, so while cleaning up in the coop, I opened the nests back up and after two days, she was back in one of the other nests.  I moved her eggs once again, and bless pat if she didn't move, a few days later, back to the original nest where she had had her close call!  I moved the eggs, AGAIN, and they started hatching a couple of days later!

We work and work at getting temp and RH just right in our bators.  We are careful to wash our hands and turn the eggs religiously, but not jostle them.  We monitor for air cell size and movement and development.  We count days, candle at just the right times (well, except SCG) and make special adjustments at lock-down.  You would think we could have better hatches than some pea brained hen, but NO!  She makes it look like there's nothing to it!  She makes us look like idiots! 

 
I am always amazed at how a broody can hatch chicks, no matter the circumstances.

I didn't really expect these to hatch at all.  She would sit for two days in one nest, with her eggs then move to another.  I would move her back and she would sit a few days and move again.  If there were eggs in another nest, she'd sit there.  Finally, I put an open box with hay in it on the floor for the layers and blocked off the other nests (besides the one she was setting in.)

Then, the dog attack came.  He actually stuck his head in her nest and grabbed her but got only a mouth full of feathers as there were lots of her feathers in the nest and around the outside but she was up in the rafters, missing patches of feathers, but unharmed.  I didn't think she would go back, so while cleaning up in the coop, I opened the nests back up and after two days, she was back in one of the other nests.  I moved her eggs once again, and bless pat if she didn't move, a few days later, back to the original nest where she had had her close call!  I moved the eggs, AGAIN, and they started hatching a couple of days later!

We work and work at getting temp and RH just right in our bators.  We are careful to wash our hands and turn the eggs religiously, but not jostle them.  We monitor for air cell size and movement and development.  We count days, candle at just the right times (well, except SCG) and make special adjustments at lock-down.  You would think we could have better hatches than some pea brained hen, but NO!  She makes it look like there's nothing to it!  She makes us look like idiots! 

 and

Scott

:cd Chirp

 

[cknnewbie]

More pictures of the coop build at Thistle Dew Ranch:

Wiring for power.




Burying the conduit.



Installing hardware cloth in the ventilation panels. That gate to the run has now been painted to match the coop. There is a lockable latch to secure it.



John is taking today off and has another job to do elsewhere on Monday, so work will resume on Tuesday. He will build the "chicken holder" (a stand-alone roost bar thingie, similar to the one described in the "Dummies" book's Walk-In Coop).

Color me Jealous! That looks great!

 

[AK Baha]

Color me Jealous! That looks great!

X 2 Great job.