What DH said would take several hours and ended up taking a week is now finished and looks great ! No more sharing house with my little chics .Or cleaning up the poop .
They are now about 100 ft. from our house in a nice little coop with a 250 watt red brooder bulb, so no walls needed in warm weather. Ducksare still in pond but moved to porch at night they also have 250 W red brooder light.
He did a real good job on it, thanks to some of you here and your pictures and his hard work and talent. [ I am going to have to learn how to paste pictures ].
5x3' with 1x4 in.hardware clothe floor.5 ft. high coop on 3ft. stilts or legs,it is 8ft. tall.With blue metal roof and walls are 1in.chic wire .
There is a one foot wide second floor that goes completely around the whole cage. Top open with with 1 in. chicken wire. 2x2' door on each end . It's a townhouse,haha .He did a neat job .And it is all made with scrap wood,metal ,except for wire. We had a lot of materials left over when we built or house .We have the same kind of metal roof as they do.
We made it to move around but we had a time moving it .Ten years ago we would have lifted it up and had it in place in five minutes, it took an hour to put front legs on golf cart and back in wagon and keep it from falling.
Chics are so funny, they are use to soft paper towel floors and when they felt that hardware clothe they started flying from one piece of wood to the other as not to touch the wire, they are sleeping in corner of doors where it is about 6in of wood . All 5 of them are getting friendly .
Brooder Pen Is FINALLY Finished
yes, that wire floor takes a little getting used to. if you feel sorry for them you can put some cardboard in some places. some of them take longer to adjust than others.
the palce sounds like a dream home for chickens! congrats! wish you had pictures, but you described it so well that i can see it in my mind...
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Tamara it is heavir than we wanted, but we like it . I put a few paper towels on the floor for now. And i put them a little container in there full of dirt, they love that.
Our dog goes out to check on them and looks up , hope they don't mess in her eyes.
We gave her an egg sandwich tonight, then i thought about what somebody told me years ago, not to geve them egg, it will make them kill chics or eat eggs.Is this true ?
never heard of that about eating eggs. we are careful not to feed them chicken! but our dogs are goat guards, so they are penned away from out free ranging fowl. they get out twice a day under supervision.
there is a thread here with a video where the dog whisperer shows you how to chicken proof!
anything my DH builds i sALWAYS heavier, and bigger, and takes loner LOL
isn't it nice to have them OUT? how is your dog?
Tamara the dog is not worse but not better either.Shes on antibioics so maybe they will kick in soon .Shes the only one left of cats and dogs shes only 7 so hopefully she will fight it off.We are keeping her inside .
Ducks are back in the old chicken cage again and off my porch. But we may have storms so guess they will be back up here if we do .They are still wild acting maybe from all the moving them to clean up after them .
I have been cleaning chic and duck poop all week and DH fixed me very runny egg sandwich,it made me gag so I gave them to dog! I don't eat runny eggs at anytime.
Seems alot of us here have had a bad week , maybe next week will be better.