YO GEORGIANS! :)

[GAMarans]

Carcar, you evil woman. That stupid boots and dance song has burned its way into my brain but it has morphed. It is now any variation/combination of chicks and ducks or geese and ducks or goats and ducks or .... Ugh!

 

[LTygress]

Is that what that stupid Geico pig sings?

 

[GAMarans]

Is that what that stupid Geico pig sings?

yep

 

[LTygress]

Remind me never to listen to the song outside of that commercial then. Although Netflix and Hulu Plus have eliminated most of that.

 

[abmaddox1981]

2 more days til lock down on my mottled am eggs! Then 3 days after that is lock down for the Lav Marans. The 2 weeks til turkeys.

 

[LTygress]

YAY! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM!

 

[LTygress]

I finally got tired of waiting on Frizzle roo. I took the oldest actual frizzle hen (who is about five months old) and tossed her in with the only other bantam roo I have right now...

The white silkie.

So hopefully very soon I'll start getting a mixed-breed silkie/cochin with 50% being frizzled. And if I do, the babies are being bred back to my silkies again. That's right - I'm on project frizzled silkie!

(I THINK sizzles are just the mixed breeds with frizzle feathers. I can't remember, so I'll have to look it up when I get back on the computer.)

 

[pr0wlunwoof]

You might want to look at putting PDZ (for horse stalls) in the pull out drawer so you aren't scraping disgusting dry/wet poop off the tray (assuming most of it doesn't get stuck on the hardware cloth first).

Here is a good thread on poop boards with PDZ, I am making one for under the perches:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/621363/poop-board-convert-warning-graphic-gross-poop-pictures

Also it is hard to tell from the pix but do they have an outdoor run? They aren't going to be living on hardware cloth are they?

They have a run. I pretty much put horse fencing up from the back corner all the way to the privacy fence. I will take a picture when I get home. The idea of the poop drawer was to scrape the poop out a hole into a bucket which i could then transport poop to garden in.

 

[pr0wlunwoof]

@pr0wlunwoof Welcome! I have a daughter near you; I hear ya about the grocery store -drives is crazy too! I love your coop; is that a solar light you've got hooked up next to it?

Yeah its a solar motion sensor light. Wanted to be made aware of any movement outside the coop at night.

 

[sanchabird]

They have a run. I pretty much put horse fencing up from the back corner all the way to the privacy fence. I will take a picture when I get home. The idea of the poop drawer was to scrape the poop out a hole into a bucket which i could then transport poop to garden in.

I could be wrong, but I think chicken poop has to compost a bit before putting in a garden because of high nitrogen levels. I think the high nitrogen levels burn the plants.