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[nikki1]

I'll be getting my chickies this week, their 9 weeks old. Two are Lemon cuckoo Orpingtons and the other two are undecided at this time. This person has several different breeds to choose from, so hopefully I'll be able to decide on the other two when I get there.. If not, I may come home with 4 Lemons..

Glad you're going to a chicken breeder and not a used car dealership! (sorry...couldn't resist!)

--Nikki

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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FYI We also have a Serama Rooster that lives in our house . Pierre also sets on the couch with DW and eats with her. He also travels with us. Like this past weekend we went to the Dunes and Pierre went with us. Feel free to refer to me.

Does he get scared? My chickens are nervous of everything!!

Not much. When outside he really watches other birds and is very alert but doesn't show a lot of fear or panic.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Yes he crows but I am normally awake before he is and DW doesn't hear him. Pierre sleeps in his wire house and is only out when we are in the house with him.
There is really no reason to worry about them "roaming" the house at night. Chickens have near zero vision in the dark that is why they are so easy to catch at night.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: X2! I am sending prayers and good, healing energy her way.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: Mine do that all the time. If I bend down they peck at my back or my butt. It is just natural for them. They aren't being mean. I wear tall, rubber boots that I got from the feed store. It helps the legs. But mostly I just ignore it. Yours are young, right? If they are, they might get a little better with age. My older girls do it less now than last year.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK at the request of somebody ( I'm sure somebody did) I will be posting a few dune pics over the next day or 3. Here is one of my favorites! Miss jbear and G man. Top of coliseum.




And my DW ready to head out.





Me broke down waiting for parts from camp. FAIL !! ! That didn't fix it.

 

[SweetSilver]

These are great!
We just got our boxes built today too! How big did you make your boxes on the bottom row? The top boxes you have, you mentioned they are smaller for your D'Anver, are those guys about the same size as Bantams? We have 2 Bantams, a Cochin and an Ameracauna, and I'm not to sure how big to make their boxes. We have the big girls' boxes all done, hopefully they like them!

The bottom ones are 15" high before hay, and I guess around 17". My measurements were off, so I started dividing and drawing lines and I finally figured...***, I have the dividers, I'll just stick them in there evenly and who cares? My experience with chickens is not that extensive, but it's just enough to know that hens are not as picky as I used to think. We'll see what they think of these.

The d'anvers are a true bantam breed. They are pretty teeny, but are not yet full grown (almost!) The boxes are about 12" high before hay and 0we8iaehclnaqwerl inches wide

, 10" deep. It was a guess, and one was very excited when we put her up there. I think these might be too small for my bantam cochin, but who knows? My big girl orps used to cram in 2 to a box, so I think she'll find something to her liking.

 

[Breshcandra]

Well I have a chick killer in the main coop. And its my barred rock.

Came out last night to lock up and no black chick. But a brand new white one.

There was blood streaks on the walls and the slider. Then I noticed that there was blood one the concrete on the other side of the slider where 3 of my hens like to go when I lock up.

So I start looking those three over and sure enough there was blood on the barred rocks beak.

I went out side into the run and found it. It had been scalped. The skin on the head was folded forward over its eyes. Poor thing.

So I moved the momma and her new chick and the talking egg ( which was surprising cause its a barred rock egg and I didn't think they were fertile.) to the cat crate I keep out there for emergencies.

 

[SweetSilver]

SweetSilver, your nest boxes looks nice. Your coop has a timeless and classic look to it. It looks like what I imagine a perfect farm to look like.

I agree with your comment for Sweet Silver - I thought it was a photo from a magazine!

It's the hay. And all the cedar siding from the crappy cabin that was here before (can I write crappy? Will crappy be censored? We'll see! Crappy, crappy, crappy.....) Together they look very farm-y. The whole coop cost us under $100. Chicken wire, more nails, and one or two panels for more roofing. Everything else came from that cabin--roof, supports, siding. (BTW, the coop is an open design with tons of ventilation and the siding is about 25 years old. Nothing for cedar, but the fuminess of the wood has dissipated.)

The evening sun was shining through the hillbilly skylight (one panel on clear corrugated roofing) and I ran out to grab the camera.

 

[UrbanEnthusiast]

Hola! I'm within city limits! there are quite a few of us here in Seattle, I'm by Northgate Mall / U district.
Welcome to BYC

Cool! We're four blocks north of Roosevelt High School. Maybe we'll hear each others' clucking sometime.