Where did they come from???

[Rick&chickTampa]

Sure has been a lot of discussion I missed in a couple of days.

Woohoo! I'm now the proud owner of a 10x10 dog kennel to be repurposed into a chicken run! And...and...I fell into another sweet deal of another 10x10 dog kennel for $50! You know...just in case that Chicken Math gets a grip on my ass...

That just made me think, I have one of those dog kennels stacked behind my shed. I may just have to put that thing back together and let the chickens use it.

 

[Rick&chickTampa]

Bud, hate to tell you but you are already gripped and infected with the chicken math virus.

I thought she was hooked way back when she was trying to catch those chickens at work.

 

[pamelajean]

I was craigslisting today looking for travel trailers free to haul off myself. Not that I need anything like that. Why didn't you opt for digging a hole for the ducks to get them going on their pond? I would love to set up a duck pond but not sure about owning the ducks.

Yes!!!! Ducks!!! They are wonderful!

 

[Sassysouth]

Interesting. It was maybe 10, they would have been from the 60's-70's though. I'm sure there's more of them out there. He probably left them in the yard and they got stepped on, or run over. Even if I found 100 of them I'd probably keep them though. I'm weird like that. I have a couple old Vietnamese coins my gpa had found in an old car in the 60's, totally worthless but he died when my dad was a kid, so it's like a memento type of thing.

I think that is cool stuff to keep. I have an old brass whistle my great grandfather found.

 

[featherhead007]

My chickens are at my parent's place which they bought after my gma died and was my dad's childhood home. Back in the olden days before my gpa died it was a junkyard out back. They too just toss their trash out there. My birds have dug up some piece to old porcalin dishes. We put in a garden this year and found loads of random stuff. Marbles that were my dad's, a monkey from a barrel of monkeys, a purple crayon, a hair clip from my aunt, lots of glass, coal. Out in the woods I found old bathroom tiles. I keep hoping to dig up a jar full of $$. lol

I hope you find treasure there! All I find is what my Beetov-hen digs up, shiny stuff. Lot's of broken glass.

 

[featherhead007]

I'm thinking of hanging a sign on my hens Beetov-hen and Hen-rietta, saying "sanitation director team" they dig up the strangest things!

 

[pennyJo1960]

you guys are hijacking this thread you want to chat do it another thread please

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Hopefully nobody in the household starts to complain about how expensive those eggs are when they start laying reliably for you. Do you have a general idea of how you are going to frame out the roof? I know you have yet to pick up your fencing material(and spoiler alert I read ahead a teensy bit). I do also like your german reference to "Macht's nichts".

Keep up the good work for your flock!
Allen

Picked up left over metal roof panels from a pole building builder. 36W x 12'L for $1.50 a foot. Thinking about a pergola type roof frame to attach to the top of the dog kennel. Thoughts?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Picked up left over metal roof panels from a pole building builder. 36W x 12'L for $1.50 a foot. Thinking about a pergola type roof frame to attach to the top of the dog kennel. Thoughts?

that is a great idea it will last forever same as I am doing I think

 

[AllenK RGV]

Picked up left over metal roof panels from a pole building builder. 36W x 12'L for $1.50 a foot. Thinking about a pergola type roof frame to attach to the top of the dog kennel. Thoughts?

Pergola sounds expensive, and not redneck enough for my tastes.