Happy New Year all!! 
I’ve been busily using my free days to start planning the new coop! And while we are in a building mood, I’m also going to try to build a new quail area. The tiny rabbit hutches are just not ideal and the rats are eating away the wood on the front as well. I’m excited, they’ll be going from 16 sq ft to 28! Plus I’m gonna make it about 5.5’ tall, add some fake plants, a shelter, some logs and wood for hiding and a dirt floor to dig in! I think it will make them really happy
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The chicken coop is going slow due to the atmospheric rivers we have coming thru. We have neighboring areas flooding, it’s SO soggy…and so I’m learning how to use my new handheld circular saw and picking out paints by building a demo coop door.
Nohope seems to very very slowly improving (but I’ve said this many times and been wrong). He is almost able to stand and his appetite and thirst are back! He also now freely eats his vitamins like a good boy. We needed to get some leftovers out of the fridge to make room for cake…
So he got spoiled and had a lovely dinner of grilled salmon atop a bed of quinoa. 
Very spoiled 
He also got a bit too ambitious trying to walk and ended up flop/flying off the couch.
And last, I noticed during last nights crazy rain storm (3” in 24 hrs) JoJo looked rather pathetic via coop camera. It was almost midnight and POURING, so I hoped he was ok till today. It is our only day this week with sun! Brought him in, looked him over, and found mite or lice eggs in his beard feathers
So thankfully it was discovered today and not in the miserable rain! Soo, he got a very thorough bath with Dawn soap, he got a dosing of Elector PSP, and then a warm and dry ICU bed for a couple night stay. Poor boy!
No one else had any so I don’t know why he had issues! So after he got settled, the whole family went out and cleaned out all the pine shavings, the roost ladder, and nest boxes from the big 4x8x6 ft coop. Then I doused the coop in Elector, cleaned and doused the roost bars and nest boxes. Then, every chicken in the shared run also got doused! By the time we were done with the chores, it was dark and my back was spasming. Doing what ya gotta…it was a royal pain and we all got wet, muddy, and tired but I feel so happy being able to reassemble my paver pile that holds the net boxes and blocks gaps from the outside to keep the rats out!
I’ve been busily using my free days to start planning the new coop! And while we are in a building mood, I’m also going to try to build a new quail area. The tiny rabbit hutches are just not ideal and the rats are eating away the wood on the front as well. I’m excited, they’ll be going from 16 sq ft to 28! Plus I’m gonna make it about 5.5’ tall, add some fake plants, a shelter, some logs and wood for hiding and a dirt floor to dig in! I think it will make them really happy
. The chicken coop is going slow due to the atmospheric rivers we have coming thru. We have neighboring areas flooding, it’s SO soggy…and so I’m learning how to use my new handheld circular saw and picking out paints by building a demo coop door.
Nohope seems to very very slowly improving (but I’ve said this many times and been wrong). He is almost able to stand and his appetite and thirst are back! He also now freely eats his vitamins like a good boy. We needed to get some leftovers out of the fridge to make room for cake…
So he got spoiled and had a lovely dinner of grilled salmon atop a bed of quinoa. Very spoiled He also got a bit too ambitious trying to walk and ended up flop/flying off the couch.
And last, I noticed during last nights crazy rain storm (3” in 24 hrs) JoJo looked rather pathetic via coop camera. It was almost midnight and POURING, so I hoped he was ok till today. It is our only day this week with sun! Brought him in, looked him over, and found mite or lice eggs in his beard feathers
So thankfully it was discovered today and not in the miserable rain! Soo, he got a very thorough bath with Dawn soap, he got a dosing of Elector PSP, and then a warm and dry ICU bed for a couple night stay. Poor boy! No one else had any so I don’t know why he had issues! So after he got settled, the whole family went out and cleaned out all the pine shavings, the roost ladder, and nest boxes from the big 4x8x6 ft coop. Then I doused the coop in Elector, cleaned and doused the roost bars and nest boxes. Then, every chicken in the shared run also got doused! By the time we were done with the chores, it was dark and my back was spasming. Doing what ya gotta…it was a royal pain and we all got wet, muddy, and tired but I feel so happy being able to reassemble my paver pile that holds the net boxes and blocks gaps from the outside to keep the rats out!
. They don’t always eat things that they are “supposed to like”.
Happy New Year and belated Merry Christmas!!
we were supposed to get a bunch of rain this week and luckily we haven’t seen any, but after the snow melted a few days ago, everything is still SOO muddy. I honestly have to say I don’t envy you. I’m sorry you’re going through all of that! I happy you caught that in JoJo! That would have just add so much more to your list if others had gotten it! JoJo looks absolutely annoyed 
as I recall it was not a bad beer especially with sushi (in a sushi bar, with friends and saki!)
🖐
need to move that camera higher and also install a second camera in the run or something... need to figure that out 
. Have had a few good calls so looking forward to meeting with people this week 
We are not in a hurry but he is a looker of a good age and got a lot of interest.
Good fun!
