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Welcome! I am pretty new here too! Still in the coop building stage, which we are doing before we get the chickens. That seems to be the opposite of most folks here. Which comes first, the chicken or the coop? Here, it seems to be the chickens, lol!

Hope to be able to aquire the pullets in a couple weeks!

If you are planning to get say 6 chickens build the coop for AT LEAST 20. Chicken math is an amazing thing !
 
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Hey, I was planning to order 3-4 chicks, and instead I ordered eight. I'm hoping my chicken math is over.
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Well the 1/2 inch wire arrived from csn.com yesterday! Hubby got the door to the run made and the run framed (10 x 12 with room to expand, lol-learned that here!) Nest boxes are framed, again with room to add more, and have storage space in the meantime. Seems the more we do, the more questions pop up. Nest boxes will go on the outside of our shed/coop, with external access to eggs, and will be 12" off the floor inside the coop. Is that good? Do we need a little lip/board for them to land on so they don't crush the eggs? I read that on here somewhere. Or would it be better to just put the boxes lower? We can do it either way, they aren't attached yet, nor have we cut the holes in the walls.

Also, we haven't bought the wire for the upper part of the run yet. The half inch will go around the bottom two feet and a foot underground with an apron. But for the other upper 4 feet of the run, I can't remember what size and gauge is best. Since we are in the rainy western part of the state, what kind is most rust resistant? The covered stuff?

For the roofing of the run, we are using that corrugated stuff, sloped so the rain will run off. I think the white will be best, as the clear seems like it wouldn't provide as much shade, and the green is just ugly. So many decisions, and for a perfectionist like me, it is agony! Sorry for so many questions, just hoping to do it right the first time instead of learning from expensive mistakes. Thanks for your help.
 
Chicken math. It seems to be working the wrong way for us. We ordered 50 hens, 25 CornishX and 25 Dark Cornish. What we received in the mail was 25 CornishX, 1 Leghorn (we think), 26 Dark Cornish, and 1 Buff Cochin (free random chick). So, a total of 53 chickens. One CornishX, we think, climbed up onto a perch, fell and died (well, we know it died) at about 3-4 weeks old. The other 24 went to freezer camp last week. We gave away 4 Dark Cornish to one friend, 3 to another, and sold 2 to a neighbor of one of the friends. 53-1-24-4-3-2= 1 Leghorn, 1 Buff Cochin, and 17 little Golden Eagles to give me the stink eye.

Now, I just have to wait about another 9 weeks until I can expect any eggs.
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Black heads...not yet shinney. LOL
Oops here is a picture of my pretty girl...bonbon.
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I think she is apricot..maybe buff.
Makes me want to get more rare coloured ducklings from Holderreads. LOL
But I already have 13 in a house built for 6.
Duck math. LOL
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What colour eggs???


Well, duck math goes like this.
Built a house for 6 females, ordered 10 mixed SQ rare coloured ducklings from Holderread...technically half will be girls.
So 5 girls in a house built for 6. Great.
Box came, there was 11ducklings...extras!!
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Then more girls than the half I planned for, then the boys turned out looking very pretty too....now I have 13, including the one I had from last year I thought I would sell...
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Love them all.
 
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Hey, I was planning to order 3-4 chicks, and instead I ordered eight. I'm hoping my chicken math is over. http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/438/chuckle.gif

I was DONE with chicken Math FOUR Times !
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started with 8 then to 12 then to 21 and now with the NEW babies 30
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don't know how that happend
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. I haven't learned the subtraction part of chicken math yet
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Hey Ron, I think I still have your t-shirt form the Monroe fair.
 
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