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[ki4got]

ok just a quick funny... someone sent this to me in an email and I just had to share...

seems to me that applies just as well to chickens. (especially the noise and smell LOL, the rest depends on your roosters I guess).

 

[Flat Rock farm]

ok just a quick funny... someone sent this to me in an email and I just had to share...

seems to me that applies just as well to chickens. (especially the noise and smell LOL, the rest depends on your roosters I guess).

Love it!!!

 

[chrishw]

Very

yeah I have a tendency to go a bit overboard, but I tried to limit that on these guys. LOL  if anything I think I skipped a few corners, but they're holding up nicely so far.

it's actually going to be a group of 8 pens when i'm done...  but I designed them to be built in pairs, in order to save materials somewhat. 

I've got enough materials now, to add 2 more on to these in the next week or so, but then i'll have to buy more lumber. I've got the plywood and wire, just the 2x's I need more of.  but once I finish the next 2, then I have some brooders to make, to sell at Gilmanor. then I should have the $ for more lumber, i'd hope.
this is the eventual finished plan (kind of, there are errors on the design shown below)

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very very nice! I'm thinking of something similar but having the nesting boxes against the exterior walls so I'd just have to slide a hatch and reach my hand in. You could probably do the same if you left a tiny walkway between them.

Humm, thinking about it I'd probably do it opposite yours, the roost/nest where your door is to walk around the outside collecting eggs and an "alley" going down the center with doors off of that's. That way I could have a double door system, one into the alley and then one to each pen. I'm a bit absentminded so I like spring loaded hinges and double doors.

Great plans! You've given me tons of ideas! Btw- you don't show a roof is it just over the roosts or the whole pen? Thanks!

 

[ki4got]

Quote: this design was to save building materials... and yeah i'll need to go in each one to get eggs, but gives me a chance to look the birds over closely each day. also having the nests all together gives more visibility to who's out in the pen or not, IMO.

once I put the fronts on, birds will be moving in this evening or tomorrow, if the rain holds off.

 

[settingdusk]

I have Americuanas and will be breeding some easter eggers this spring. I will have some barnyards from my incubator test run in about two weeks as well.

 

[ll]

Attn: Residents in and near the Virginia Beach area!

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Should the city of Virginia Beach consider amending the City Code to allow citizens living in certain residential zones to own and keep hens (no roosters) in their backyards?

 

[canesisters]

 

[PsyClone6]

Hey everyone I'm in rockbridge county roughly about an hour from charlottesville. I've been trying to find some friends for my pullets but not having any luck if any of you hear of anything please shoot me a msg. [email protected] thanks and good luck with yours

 

[ki4got]

Hey everyone I'm in rockbridge county roughly about an hour from charlottesville. I've been trying to find some friends for my pullets but not having any luck if any of you hear of anything please shoot me a msg. [email protected] thanks and good luck with yours

The Gilmanor swap is just 3 weeks away!

it'll be at Gilman Farm & Feed, 12187 Chewning Rd, Glen Allen VA.

vendors set up at 7 swap opens at 8, I believe. tho we were selling before we finished setting up the last two times! (fall '12 and spring '13).

hoping to be there right about 7am, or sooner if we can this time. I'll have some bantam cochins, silver grey and red Dorkings (hens only), EE's and a few other odds and ends.

I'll be building some of my brooders to sell, taking orders now if anyone's interested. I've made some upgrades available as well, including optional lighting and heat...
feel free to pm me with any questions or pre-orders. custom specs are available as well, if you want different heights or widths, or any other things you can think of (within reason of course LOL)

I had 2 of them with me this spring with broodies in them to keep the chicks warm and they were a hit! but also not for sale at the time! LOL


the pictures are not necessarily to scale, just a representation of the basic designs.

tinkering around and came up with another design, but as I have no place to store this, it would only be a custom order...

 

[capt toad]

Hey, Out-there! We're located in the foothills, south of Charlottesville, VA, in Albemarle, Co. Anyone out there between here and the Shenandoah Valley? Fluvana Co.? I'd love to find a source of chicks without doing the U.S.P.S. approach...