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[gertsgal]

If every night you go into the coop to rock each one of your chickens and ask them which show tunes they want sung to them!

 

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

If you spend the daylight part of the 4th of July shopping for/ building a new 'temporary' mini-coop (for the mini-chickens!) so the babies can move outside without the bigger chickens picking on them. And your only thought when the fireworks begin and the sounds of your neighbor's noisy party drift into your yard is "at least no one will be upset by the racket I am making with the power tools!"
Then, when it is too dark to keep building, you come inside to BYC (which is of course just so I an sit up and comfort my terrified dog).
Who needs fireworks, chickens are more fun.
Oh, and I just fond out a second hen went broody on me, and was for a brief moment worried that my prior color genetics calculations were going to have to be redone for her batch-cuz I couldn't just NOT know the possibilities! Now I am all excited to have a total of 10 eggs under broodies. If all 10 hatch, I can see how accurate my prediction was!

 

[gryeyes]

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That's what I did all day today! I converted a Little Tyke's Playhouse into a coop for the 4 youngest (8 wks old) chickens, two of which are bantams. I have other bantams, too, but as I was working on this grow-out coop, I started thinking how I could move everybody around some and just keep the banties in this playhouse later on when everybody's all integrated.

I have tomorrow off - I'll be putting up a temporary fence so they can go outside after a few days. Right now, they have to stay inside to "learn" this is their new home. Plus the dog is far too interested in them!

 

[boxermom]

That is the cutest chicken coop!

 

[Balfour Girl]

I agree! Cute chicken coop and I love the pic of the dog on the ramp, looking in the window!

 

[noodleroo]

You're so creative! I love the 'little tykes' coop! I wish I would have thought of that; is the people door easy enough to deal with?

 

[artsyrobin]

thought of this thread when.....

i spent an afternoon last week sitting with rotten logs and breaking them open so my girls could hunt for fat grubs- and it was so fun to watch their eyes light up-

when i held a dampish pullet promising her we would get them a leakproof coop- and she looks at me and mutters- yep- we ordered a new shed for them!

 

[emvickrey]

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BAck when we had that stuff called "Rain", I would go around the yard and move logs and bricks and what ever was laying around so the girls could gobble down some worms. We sure grow-em big around here. But since we havne't had a decent rain in a long time there are no worms to be found.

 

[littlestars17]

If you open your kitchen window and Hollar out"heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere chickie doodddddlllleeesss" and your chicks come running,flying up the basement bilco doors to get their treats from you-and the neighbors all stare lol

 

[jossanne]

...when you get your husband off to work and go sit in the coop to relax for a while before the kids come home from school, and then he drives up with his co-worker a short time later and you don't even come out of the coop to say hi! Gotta get that alone time with your birds while you can...