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NO!
A dark dark egg is the body of the chick blocking the light !!!
NO!
A dark dark egg is the body of the chick blocking the light !!!
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I think I'm gonna base my coop off of this one I found today. My husband thinks I need to build it bigger, and the only way I can see making that work, is by makeing the coop longer. So instead of being 4'x8', it will wind up being 4'x16'. Now what I am wondering is if I should make it one long coop, or two 4'x8' coops side by side...
Ok heres the coop I found that I THINK I will be basing my new coop off of...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=49043
What do you all think? Any other ideas. I am so frustrated that I cant think strait.
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I don't know how you all can chat to yourselves. I have nothing to say to me.
You need to take lessons from Justbugged, she can entertain herself for hours!
I don't know how you all can chat to yourselves. I have nothing to say to me.
You need to take lessons from Justbugged, she can entertain herself for hours!
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Wow, that looks really nice. I like the idea of either one long coop, divided in the middle OR 4X8's side by side. Who had something similar to that on here, made from pallets? That way they could keep flocks separate? If I had the room and no city codes preventing me, I'd do something like that so I could have some projects.
Wow, that looks really nice. I like the idea of either one long coop, divided in the middle OR 4X8's side by side. Who had something similar to that on here, made from pallets? That way they could keep flocks separate? If I had the room and no city codes preventing me, I'd do something like that so I could have some projects.
Cheryl..... Love the coop. Your chickens would be so happy in that. I would love to have something like that, then you could separate them. I do love my coop but would love to be able to be able to divide them up if needed. Isnt it fun to plan and look at different things? Dont let the stress get to you
. It will all work out..... It always does.
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That is an excellent idea, you svae alot of $ as you use community walls, and it helps heat as there is less walls exposed to the elements.
I feel much better today although I think another 3 hour nap will be perfect...
I woke up late, at 7, and cleaned 5 coops poop trays, filled 8 feeders with their respective food...cleaned & refilled 3 brooder fonts, and 5 rabbit bottles, and 5 coop water boxes.
Then the Blue Ameraucana coop was looking dingey, so I forked out the straw, wheel barrowed it to the compost and dumped it out..and refilled the coop with cedar shavings...smells so good in there
Then I popped breakfast egg-a-muffins in the oven, and set up another incubator up on the kitchen counter cuz more cuckoos & blue Ameraucanas going to lockdown and in my lockdown incubator is still a 3 day wheaten & blue wheaten ameraucana hatch extravaganza going on..with a chick or two zipping free every hour round the clock for 3 days now...
I think there is 17 of them now, and 1 silver buff cuckoo, and 2 oliver eggers, and 2 black ameraucanas and 1 blue ameraucana.
An excellent hatch !
So, I have an apple, cheddar cheese & rice crackers, with oj, so hopefully I do not have more gut cramps & the other nasty bits associated with such conditions
I do feel alot better!!
OK, off to shower & maybe hit the grocery store & nap...old people need naps, just look at CR!!
He needs a nap everyday!!
That is an excellent idea, you svae alot of $ as you use community walls, and it helps heat as there is less walls exposed to the elements.
I feel much better today although I think another 3 hour nap will be perfect...
I woke up late, at 7, and cleaned 5 coops poop trays, filled 8 feeders with their respective food...cleaned & refilled 3 brooder fonts, and 5 rabbit bottles, and 5 coop water boxes.
Then the Blue Ameraucana coop was looking dingey, so I forked out the straw, wheel barrowed it to the compost and dumped it out..and refilled the coop with cedar shavings...smells so good in there
Then I popped breakfast egg-a-muffins in the oven, and set up another incubator up on the kitchen counter cuz more cuckoos & blue Ameraucanas going to lockdown and in my lockdown incubator is still a 3 day wheaten & blue wheaten ameraucana hatch extravaganza going on..with a chick or two zipping free every hour round the clock for 3 days now...
I think there is 17 of them now, and 1 silver buff cuckoo, and 2 oliver eggers, and 2 black ameraucanas and 1 blue ameraucana.
An excellent hatch !
So, I have an apple, cheddar cheese & rice crackers, with oj, so hopefully I do not have more gut cramps & the other nasty bits associated with such conditions
I do feel alot better!!
OK, off to shower & maybe hit the grocery store & nap...old people need naps, just look at CR!!
He needs a nap everyday!!
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That's SO awesome!!!!
I hope your day gets better!!!
That's SO awesome!!!!
I hope your day gets better!!!
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And a cool barn house after that.
And a cool barn house after that.
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It can be fun, but also a miserable process. I know I will be happy with it when I am done, thats IF I'm ever done...
Ive been planning and constructing all winter, get some progress done, and then the weather decides to put a halt to any work... I havnt been able to touch the new coop in over two weeks because of the weather. Well not just the weather, the fact that I have a toddler who is constantly tearing something up.
Now I need to purchase more materials. I have enough plywood to finish the structure without the addition, and now I need to double what I already have. I also need to track down more pier blocks to raid the second half up off the ground.
I'm really hoping that my mother has spares laying around her property...
I am trying hard to not stress, but it just isnt working. If only I had a second set of hands, and someone to watch DD... When the weathers nice, I just lock her in the fenced yard to play while I work just outside the fence on the coop, but the weather wont make up its stupid mind. Right now its raining, and sunny! I guess I really feel more overwhelmed with this entire project. As I was SO close to finishing, and now I am not even 1/2 way there...
It can be fun, but also a miserable process. I know I will be happy with it when I am done, thats IF I'm ever done...
Now I need to purchase more materials. I have enough plywood to finish the structure without the addition, and now I need to double what I already have. I also need to track down more pier blocks to raid the second half up off the ground.
I am trying hard to not stress, but it just isnt working. If only I had a second set of hands, and someone to watch DD... When the weathers nice, I just lock her in the fenced yard to play while I work just outside the fence on the coop, but the weather wont make up its stupid mind. Right now its raining, and sunny! I guess I really feel more overwhelmed with this entire project. As I was SO close to finishing, and now I am not even 1/2 way there...
I would do two side by side. If you ever decided you wanted to do breeding you would have some place to separate the breeding stock to, it also gives you some place to introduce young birds without getting them picked on.
That's a nice coop. I may need to start namimg chickens after Jane Austen heroines.
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That's a nice coop. I may need to start namimg chickens after Jane Austen heroines.
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