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[superchemicalgirl]

My kids are cute though.

(OK, not all of them, but some of them

)

HAHAHAHA love it.

Neat pictures. I always imagine laying an egg must be like being constipated. A lot of effort to produce a lot of relief.

Great coop and egg laying pictures. For next boxes, I have an assortment of sizes in my 4 foot wide box - 12x12 is the top row with 4 nests then 16 then 24. All get used. The girls pick which size makes them feel the most comfortable. Some boxes had curtains but I removed them when we got mites.


Hope y'all have a nice day, felony-free.

 

[vehve]

Bama, what kinds of female facial hair do you want the lights on for? I'm curious. Is a 5 o'clock shadow okay?

 

[vehve]

Quote: That's a nice looking setup, although I couldn't have unpainted osb here, or osb at all even with the humidity we get in fall.

With a 33" wide egg nest I might look into finding 16" wide plastic tubs to put on the bottom and make two nests, but without a divider. We have a similar setup in ours, and they like it.

 

[ozexpat]

That's a nice looking setup, although I couldn't have unpainted osb here, or osb at all even with the humidity we get in fall.

With a 33" wide egg nest I might look into finding 16" wide plastic tubs to put on the bottom and make two nests, but without a divider. We have a similar setup in ours, and they like it.

i dont think you could have unpainted anything...

 

[vehve]

Oz, are you saying that I'm slightly anal?

The lid to my egg nests has swollen with the high humidity, so I trimmed it a bit with a knife. Now it's just bare wood there, and it's annoying the heck out of me. But I need a bit drier weather to trim it down some more and get it painted.

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, are you saying that I'm slightly anal?

The lid to my egg nests has swollen with the high humidity, so I trimmed it a bit with a knife. Now it's just bare wood there, and it's annoying the heck out of me. But I need a bit drier weather to trim it down some more and get it painted.

you mean to tell me you dont have a dehumifier?

oh vehve!! how can your chickens put up with exposed wood!!

 

[vehve]

I don't know Oz, I don't know... But it's on the outside, so it is actually pretty exposed! On the inside, however, I just installed new roosts for them. They got untreated, planed fir. No plans to paint that. And also, I didn't paint the wood between the sheets of glass in the double-pane windows.

Dehumidifiers aren't usually needed here, too dry air inside houses tends to be a more common problem. It's only outside it gets really humid during the wet time, and it isn't really that wet either, but since it's a lot colder, the relative humidity gets quite high, and it takes ages for something to dry naturally at 5C.

 

[Peep_Show]

lol depends on her mustache

Touché!

 

[chickisoup]

Morning everyone

ok, so, I was 100 posts behind. Do you guys have ANY idea how wild the topic swing was????

Not even going to attempt to jump in on them, nope nope nope.

Great coop page Alaskan.

Does anyone know anything about the Swedish Black (or Black Swedish?) breed? I guess GreenFire managed to import some from England. All I know is they are cold hardy, of course. What about laying? Are they as "sparse" as the Cerami's ?

 

[Bunnylady]

Bama, what kinds of female facial hair do you want the lights on for? I'm curious. Is a 5 o'clock shadow okay?

I'm guessing unibrows. It'd be like looking in a mirror.