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[SadieSue]

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Aww... Poor guy, thank goodness he was found safe! What kind of chicks did you hatch?

 

[SadieSue]

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Nice pics of a pretty girl! She does look quite different from our black tails. I'm sure I wouldn't be as tolerant of our ocean deer if I had garden to protect.

 

[SadieSue]

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Nice pics of Jazzy and his girls. Looks beautiful out on the water!

 

[cackleberrylinda]

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My best chicken house was my first and it was already built when I got my first flock given to me back in the 70s when I was a back to nature girl... ah the memories of youth. But I digress... I hope to build a house like this again.
Let me see if I can describe it. Wish I could just draw it.
It was about 20' x 10' and divided up into 3 rooms/ areas. The laying / roosting room was at one end and measured 4 x 10. Next came the feed room (4' x 10')which is where the entry door was. Both of these rooms had wooden floors. So, you would go in thru the door into the feed room with garbage cans/bins and shelves... Go thru the door to left and you were in an 'outdoor room', my favorite bit of this house. The far end was open totally to the chicken yard.The walls on either side, (the long side of the building) were entirely closed in. So, what you have is a roofed dirt floored room for the chickens to be rollin in the dirt and scratchin year round. The nesting / roosting room didn't have to be very big because they only did their business in there. I think I had their feeders in there also. Gosh I wish I had that now. Did I paint a clear enough picture?
I declare when I find my way back to $$ I will have this built. Modifications will be to add a couple of windows to the dirt side. There was a window on the nesting room.
This house was on the beach on Vashon Island and the prevailing winds off the Sound came at the walls facing the entry door. So, there was shelter no matter what the weather. I left the floor to dirt and it never needed to be cleaned out for some reason in that area. Maybe because I didn't have too many chickens. A dozen maybe.
A wonderful coop to begin my love of chickens.

 

[cackleberrylinda]

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Kinda blown away here... what beautiful birds... makes my mouth woatah...

 

[hallerlake]

I have heavy plastic stapled around a couple of sides of my run. I was careful, so it doesn't look too bad. I'll take it off in the spring.

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My best chicken house was my first and it was already built when I got my first flock given to me back in the 70s when I was a back to nature girl... ah the memories of youth. But I digress... I hope to build a house like this again.
Let me see if I can describe it. Wish I could just draw it.
It was about 20' x 10' and divided up into 3 rooms/ areas. The laying / roosting room was at one end and measured 4 x 10. Next came the feed room (4' x 10')which is where the entry door was. Both of these rooms had wooden floors. So, you would go in thru the door into the feed room with garbage cans/bins and shelves... Go thru the door to left and you were in an 'outdoor room', my favorite bit of this house. The far end was open totally to the chicken yard.The walls on either side, (the long side of the building) were entirely closed in. So, what you have is a roofed dirt floored room for the chickens to be rollin in the dirt and scratchin year round. The nesting / roosting room didn't have to be very big because they only did their business in there. I think I had their feeders in there also. Gosh I wish I had that now. Did I paint a clear enough picture?
I declare when I find my way back to $$ I will have this built. Modifications will be to add a couple of windows to the dirt side. There was a window on the nesting room.
This house was on the beach on Vashon Island and the prevailing winds off the Sound came at the walls facing the entry door. So, there was shelter no matter what the weather. I left the floor to dirt and it never needed to be cleaned out for some reason in that area. Maybe because I didn't have too many chickens. A dozen maybe.
A wonderful coop to begin my love of chickens.

 

[justbugged]

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Face the back of your coop into the most prelavent head winds... We always have at least a breez blowing through our property, because of the bay, and all of my critter housing is aranged so the winds mostly hit the back walls. Trustme, you don't need a bunch or tarps if you do it right. You may also want a partially walled in run, for a wind break, not necesarily completly enclosed, but maby 4-6' of a wind break?

The back of our girls run roof is blocked from the winds that we get from the east. We are in the cross hairs of one of the Cascades high wind corridors. When the low pressures and high pressures get in the right spot, we get winds in the 60 mph range. We lost the roof in December of 2003. DH spent the Christmas week putting on a 90 mph roof. The guys nailed the east facing side with more than enough nails to keep it on in most of the winds that come through here. Of course if they log the pass again, who knows whether or not the winds could hit 120 mph again. That could be a lot of fun to watch.

 

[justbugged]

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Very cool info. We have a herd of Roosevelt Elk that often come to stay in the pastures just outside of the neighborhood I live in. They are gorgeous animals.

 

[Rainwolf]

My button quail is mad at me..... I put him in the time out cage since he was being a mean boy to the girl I was introducing him to.
Now he won't shut up.

Heres the vader snoring button male

 

[justbugged]

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We culled one of our Welsummer girls. Her breast bone was disfigured. I posted pictures on a thread a number of months ago. There really wasn't a good explanation for why. I never had a clue that she was like that for more than a year.