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[hallerlake]

For the first time since the end of March, I don't have chicks in the house. We put together the coop and enclosure for the spitz today. I put them in the coop around sunset. Tomorrow they'll have more room to wander, and I'll be able to clean up the laundry room..

 

[Kaneke]

OK I gotta tell on DH

we very carefully installed a sliding window (4x4) to be the access for the run, with the click-over latch on the outside (about 1/3 the way up from the bottom

DH went in, after we had it all together and the chicks installed, and absentmindedly slid the slider half, all the way shut and latched

no he didn't have his cellphone, normally he would but it was on charge ...

somehow he managed to lift the slider portion completely up and out of the frame -- since he couldn't climb the fencing wire nor boost himself up and onto the coop roof (arthritic shoulders)

he reinstalled the latch to the UPPER third of the slider, so if it happened again, he would only have to reach up and over about a foot, to unlatch

then yes ...

I latched myself in, day before yesterday

I could have climbed out over the coop, it IS only 41" high -- but I just reached out and over the window frame and unlatched it --- thanks to DH's hard work readjusting it

of course once we get the permanent roof on, we will have to arrange an access to the latch -- for now it is a big tarp, tented up in the middle to shed the rain, and wire-tied and bungee-d to the fence wire all around

 

[broodytood]

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Shhhhhh... don't say that loud enough for CR to hear you!!!

 

[renart]

Evening ..


The larger share of our chicks will be 6 weeks old this coming Wednesday, 22 June. The coop should be completed before they are 8 weeks. There is a question coming here somewhere, I'm pretty sure.

[Is there] - [should there be] - [does anyone usually] when introducing chicks to their coop for the first time, [do you] - [should we] - keep them secured in their new

coop for a period of time to get them used to their new safe place, or do they usually adjust pretty quickly ?


Reason I ask is this, the DW and I were talking about when the chicks are moved out to their new place, we could let them run amok in their [run] for awhile before sending them back to the coop. She thought maybe it would be best to keep them in lockdown till they get used to it ?


discuss please...

 

[ReiMiraa]

7 more chicks have hatched today when i was busy and forgot about them... they hatched a day early... but thats ok... i had a chick a few days ago supposed to hatch tomorrow and it hatched friday and it a fat fluffy thing.

My BF has told me I am not allowed to sell any currently hatched chicks as I will need many layers this winter to supply 4 doz a day to a local restaurant... guess I will need to put more of my own flock in the bator to have chicks i can sell........

But then I am not planning to sell any of my icelandic chicks. they are cute ping ball things still... while the other breeds have grown like weeds.... but these little ones have the longest wing feathers and can jump better than the others...

In other news.... We now have Chelan Cherries for sale at our fruitstand.... i was super busy selling. i also managed to sell one of my chicken produce feed bags and Dad sold a phesant potholder yesterday morning.

I probably need to candle the Cayuga duck eggs tomorrow for a fertility check... i have been opening the bator alot... but i spray the eggs with water....

 

[hallerlake]

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I introduced my Brabanters to a coop in a run a couple of weeks ago, and I'm doing it again tonight with the spitz. I put the birds in the coop at sunset, and let them out into the run in the morning. With the Brabanters, I had to catch them to put them in the coop for a couple of evenings. By the third evening, they went in by themselves. I wouldn't want to keep them shut in a box for any length of time. Your coop may be more open than mine.

 

[renart]

whoa .. no posts in over TWO HOURS !

People are going to start thinkin were all like old or something and go to bed early!

 

[renart]

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Adding another 2 hours plus to the above quiet time. Good thing you all make up for it in the daylight hours. Time for me to have a nap afor my day starts again in a few hours. Hoping to get most of the walls for the chicken coop framed tomorrow.


be GOOD!

 

[VelvettFog]

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I introduced my Brabanters to a coop in a run a couple of weeks ago, and I'm doing it again tonight with the spitz. I put the birds in the coop at sunset, and let them out into the run in the morning. With the Brabanters, I had to catch them to put them in the coop for a couple of evenings. By the third evening, they went in by themselves. I wouldn't want to keep them shut in a box for any length of time. Your coop may be more open than mine.

QFT

 

[Ogress]

Where is everybody?