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[Nikki99]

My daughter was in the picture mood, if I let her she would have picked up all our birds for a picture of each lol. This is the first time having Brahmas, they are so funny with the floppy feathered feet.



This is Lacey the SLW, she is a big plump girl. Hard to believe she came from a hatchery.

What a cute and photogenic little girl you have! My daughter is the same way when it comes to pics. In her eyes, there's never to many pics of her!! Lol

1-2 dozen extra per week

which isn't a lot, I wanted to sell them

Wow! I hope my girls give me this many "extra" eggs each week! I want to be able to give a few to friends every now and then. Sorry it's not really enough for you to sell though.

I was watching over my girls a bit before their bedtime when I noticed that George (black star pullet) was staring wide-eyed at something in the distance and stalking down the driveway. I followed her and kept looking around, and that's when I saw the deer passing through our field. She kept wandering in the direction it was moving for about fifteen more seconds until she suddenly remembered that it was time for bed. Her curiosity was just so adorable!

Haha, I love this. I can picture it now....Great story, thanks for sharing!

Hello everyone!! It's been a busy summer for me and I haven't been around here much so I hope everyone here is doing well. I just had to come in and say that I got my first eggs this morning!!

4 eggs from 5 birds, all on the same day. It's like they synchronized their clocks or something LOL.

That's so exciting!! Congrats!

Hi guys !
Well most of you know I ripped the quadracepts & all ligaments in the nasty left knee AGAIN....3 times now.
So, I have been laid up but still doing the bank paperwork and today I am almost ready...still need to get 2 blueprint copies, 2 mo bank statements and a few other do-bies to submit to the bank.
But building HIGH estimate seems to be $65K..not a bad mortgage at all.
That will be what we must qualify for, and then what we actually use to finish the house will be what is financed & become our mortgage.
Hope you are all doing great !!!

Oh ouch! I'm sorry to hear about your knee! Sending thoughts and prayers your way for a speedy recovery!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

27 chickens of mine or belonging to my 4Hers are at the Puyallup Fair and I am pooped! There are a ton of seramas there. Anyone who wants to see a real serama tabletop show should go Friday night. Judging of caged birds is Saturday then we pick them all up Sunday and do it all again for the Youth Show in 2 weeks. September is a busy time for us.

Good luck!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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YEP! What he said!!!!

We built a pallet coop, actually it's a long duplex coop, so two sides to it. We used the pallets assembled, you will find that taking them apart is a LOT of work.
I used to have a page here showing photo's of us building it, but I don't think it came over correctly when they upgraded the site. If you can view my uploaded photo's here, it's in there somewhere!

WA4-Hpoultrytmom,

I think this is your coop building page. It's in your profile as an article.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/our-pallet-coop-duplex

Thanks!!! I looked all over and couldn't fine it yesterday!!! LOL! Articles....will have to remember that!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

OK, nevermind, I found it!!!

 

[SadieSue]

I am very grateful to have found so many nice people here who don't hesitate to offer to help an impoverished chicken-freak out. I didn't even ask!

I see that Imp has found the link to WA4HPoultryMom's duplex style pallet coop. You had mentioned that you were interested in building a separate compartment for storage. Something like her model would work really well for that, PLUS if you decided to add more chickens later, or use one side as a broody coop or integration coop, hospital coop, etc., it would lend itself really well for those purposes.

I've always thought her design was very clever and very useful!

 

[FirewifeJess]

I also had someone who sent me a message through the FB Washington Chicken page I had done she's in a lil predicament if anyone can help her out ---- thought i'd try here for her--- What she wrote:



2 hours ago
Blynne Kensel Olivieri
We have 3 sweet and lovely hand-raised 14 week old hens (an Americauna, a Welsummer, and a Speckled Sussex). With tremendous regret, we have to move cross-country and have purchased a home in an area that does not allow "non-domestic" animals. Do you have some suggestions as to where we can find our hens a new home in the Seattle area?

Thank you =)

I'm interested! But I need to see a pic to see if they're big enough to go in with my girls. I think my 2 babies are 14 weeks and my big girls are all 23 weeks.

 

[Hinotori]

Fell asleep early tonight (10!) and now I'm already up! Ugh

gonna be a long night. 3 ibuprofen, a Vicodin and a muscle relaxer all helped tremendously and now they are wearing off early.

Thanks for the pics Renee and Hinotori !!! I think it's the Townsend vole if my memory serves me right, but I can't know for sure; we made the cat an indoor cat due to fleas so now he's not catching/killing them! I might consider a one night pass if I was certain he would get one! LOL Can those little voles get into a hangIng feeder? I might need to call Dave and beg him to expedite a tradle feeder! If they're taking enough food to matter, I will know in the mornIng since I leveled off the food last night before locking up the girls. Will those things harm chickens??

I haven't had them bother any of the birds, even the chicks under broodies. They can jump and get on the hanging feeders. I've caught them on mine. They aren't the smartest rodents, and are easy to catch.

 

[Hinotori]

So - sadly - as I was sitting with our new bunch of chicks I noticed that 2 have the "crooked beak" =( One baby isnt too bad its a slight difference, the other is a lil more so....So far that I see they are doing ok - the feeder & waterer is deep enough so they are getting food.

I'm wondering if the hatcheries are trying to pump these babies out too quickly - or was just a issue with their stuff. I know I read that it's more common than what people think, but our last bunch didnt have that, but this bunch does. Other sad part is its my moms Silkies that have it =(

If they have it as chicks, it tends to get worse as they get older. I've been lucky and not had any of the birds I've gotten have it.

Is it possible for a hen to lay two eggs in a day?!? Forgot to mention here that I found two eggs from our one-year-old GL Wyandotte yesterday afternoon in her usual nesting spot. She's the only one we've got who lays a tan egg, she's been laying in the same spot all summer, and I am 99.999999999% sure I collected her egg on Tuesday, so the only explanation is that she laid two in a day. She started laying back in the spring and I know she hasn't missed a single day of laying since at least early July, but two? Seems a bit much, poor dear. No wonder she's always eating, LOL!

It's possible, just uncommon. One egg goes through slow, and one goes through quick is the usual culprit. I've had double eggs laid when my Rocks first started laying. Those are weird mutant things. One egg attached to another.

 

[itsren]

While an apron won't prevent tunneling critters. From the looks of your post I wonder if the "apron" is being misunderstood. See you say putting the apron up. Just to clarify if anybody doesn't understand. The apron goes OUT onto the ground or even buried a few inches but extends out 1'-2' around the outside walls of the coop/run.

I understand what an apron is. She is dealing with tunneling critters. She already has an apron around her run.

 

[itsren]

How do I find a 4-H group for my daughter to join? I want her to get into chickens, maybe dogs later.

If we can't find one, maybe we can form one. I'm in Auburn. I see you are close by. I have three kids (10, 8, and 8) that I want to have in 4-H.