What projects are you planning for spring?

I am planning on building a breeding coop. and running elecricity out to the new coop! I am hoping to make it 12 x 24 or so! I will use it also as a grow out pen area so then I can get my garage back in the spring!

 

Replacing linoleum-over-OSB poop planks with galvanized steel versions. Later in spring will replace all litter. Possibile 3rd one is to build a cricket farm in the run.

 

Oh gee, here's a surprise!!! I'm building a NEW coop!!!!! Because the 4-month-old one isn't "GOOD ENOUGH" for the spoiled, rotten, (precious, adorable) girls !!!!!

 

Mini coop to keep some pure BO eggs. More breeder pens for my bantams. Larger outdoor brooder. Larger growout pen. plus what ever else comes along like a new duck run. I'm also going to build a quail pen, and an outdoor pen for the rabbits.

 

I hope to have the second roofed run for the sussexes, a smidge over 10x10', completed *by* spring.

Springtime will be occupied by rebuilding the back deck on the house, gardening, and chicks.

Then this summer my plan is to build a separate turkey house (still mulling over design) and *hopefully* also a freestanding "cold" chicken coop, south side open, to play with next winter.

Pat

 

building my greenhouse-framed breeding pen thingy.

 

Remodeling my coop that was just built last spring as I have more chickens. My husband reminds me everyday of "Can we get chickens, I only want 3 or 4" and then "Honey they said I had to take six, it's the minimum they would sell me at TSC." Then it was "I built this incubator to see if I can hatch some eggs" and "Did you ever see a Silkie chicken?" and "They had a really good sale for 25 chicks." So I have to have a BIG coop. They all want to sleep together and the three little coops is not working. It will have electric and plumbing with a "mud sink" installed. That way filling the heated waterers will be a snap. And of course lights, that way I can put in red heat lamps on those nights where its really cold here. And a broody area so they don't take up my nest boxes. I have three nest boxes and two broody hens. Of course there is 5 nest boxes in the other coop, but they won't go in there. Tall enough I can walk in, I currently have a knot on my head and I believe I had a concussion from trying to clean out the coop "Nobody likes", hoping to encourage them to use it. Oh yeah, I put them in there the other night and it was awful. They slept in the nest boxes and pooped in them. That really worked.

 

SAND, SAND and more SAND......

this is my first year with chickens, and the run, even under roof was a DISASTER.....so it is getting dug out, gravel laid, and 5-6" of sand.

oh and maybe some more chicks to......they grow up so quick..LOL...

TNT

 

We're creating a second coop for a closed flock in the barn next to the original one, insulating, and including a hospital cage for segregating birds that are not contagious but may require individual attention. We'll have an electrician to improve our our panel and install some outlets outside that space in the barn aisleway. Then we need to strip off some barn board, install Typar on a short section outside, and resheathe. We're delaying bird purchase until 2011 so the flocks are three years apart in age.