This is our new coop. I took the pic prior to us getting the fence up. Like the red door? :-)
New coop and happy chickens
And these are the broilers and layer chicks frolicking together. The fence is now up so they were allowed to come out today. They've been stuck inside the last few days.
how perfect. i need the specs on that. there is this little concrete slab over in a garden are that is just SCREAMING for a chicken house, and looks about that size...
tf
Here's a nice visual on the size difference between the broilers and the layers. They are the same age.
isn't their size difference incredible? those cornish grow so fast...
"Should I, or shouldn't I?"
I'm not sure what this chick is. In the original shipment I got, there were NH Reds, GL Wyandottes, Araucanas, Specked Sussex, and Partridge Rocks. It's obviously not a NH Red. SS are not this color either. It doesn't have the orange in the face like a GLW. It could be an Araucana I guess, or a PR. But, there were extra chicks in the box, so maybe it's something else entirely. There's a second one just like it too.
On the coop, I've decided it's probably not big enough, but then, when we were designing it, we weren't counting on having guineas too. They are being kept in the coop, btw, for a bit longer so they really learn it as "home". We've barricaded them into one end, and given the larger area to the broilers. I've got more layer chicks, younger ones, in the house, so it's going to be a bit crowded until the broilers are big enough to process. Hopefully by the time the pullets in the house are ready to go outside, it won't be too long before the broilers go to freezer camp.
Anyway, the coop is just over 4 by 8 feet. The roof wasn't meant to be pitched that steep, but my FIL overrode my DH's plan when he was helping DH build it. Since we live in a cooler climate, the front of the coop faces south, and we put two windows in to help with solar heating. Each window is actually two storm windows, one mounted inside and one outside. The outside one of each pair has a screen as well as the storm panel, so when it's warm like it is now, you can put the screen down, and then lift the window on the inside storm to let the breezes blow through.
Also for right now there is ventilation at the top where the rafters are. I've put hardware cloth up there to keep critters out. We will probably devise some way to block those off in the winter, but they are left as-is for now to let heat up and out.
Oh, and we are planning to side the coop with cedar shingle seconds....
What a wonderful coop, gallesfarm!
realy cool coop gallesfarm
how many chickern do you have all together
elle
here my chickern run
we have 16 chickern
about 6 hen
elle
How many chickens?.... Um, well, not counting the broilers, there are 5 pullets in the coop, and 12 younger ones in the house, plus 4 roos inside. We only plan to keep 1 roo (whichever one turns out to have some brains and flock leader instinct), so at the most we will have 18 chickens (plus the 8 guineas). But, I'll probably try to sell a few chicks locally to get the numbers down a bit more... I think I'd like to end up with about 10-12 hens.
We have 20 broilers that are around 2.5 - 3.5 weeks old right now. So in about 5 to 8 weeks they'll be heading to freezer camp.
sound good
elle
so how long do you leave it in one place befor u move it
two day
elle
I like your coop! We have to get one built before winter since all the chickens have been living in my former greenhouse and they've wrecked it! We expect to have about 10 hens and maybe 2 roos for the winter so we may need something about 12 x 8 to house them in.
MollyD
when i move my coop (once about every 2 years) it takes about a month or 2 to get rid of most of the grass lol
i have only moved them twice but a third time is coming up in a year and a half i think
This message was edited Jul 20, 2008 3:23 PM
gonna take some measurements on that concrete slab, then approach DH. he just got the ridgepole and one gable end up on the North Shed, so i hope i can time it just right LOL...
i hope whoever ends up living htere is very loud, it will be right up agaianst the neighboring property!
tf
TF, you are badddddd....LOL
lolol! tf!
maybe i need some long-crowers?
oh i remember a thread here that had a lin to youtube and a rooster was crowing for ages it was funny
yeah, wouldn't that be cool to have about a dozen of those, right there by the fence that HATE built...
TF, you are doubly bad.
GG
Thank God i dont have neighbors, well I do to the south of me, they have a dog kennel, THEM dogs do not get out, they dont bother me and I dont bother them. They keep the south fence, WE paid for, fortified.
wow u dont lik the neighbours do u
well its a long story, the guy we hired to do our fence on the south side, it back up to their property, He hired my youngest daughter, she was 16 or 17 at the time. This neighvor man came to my daughter and commenced to cuss her. The guy I hired was right there and he said wait a minute guy 1 you DO NOT talk to a young lady like that 2 if you have a problem you come to ME, well my daughter called me from her cell, I told mom, mom went to the mans house and let him have it, well she tried he ran into the house and sent his wife out. We gave him 2 feet of our land just so not to bother him, what he was doing was filling up a ditch, creek with garbage and trees, that is on OUR side. And that is the end of that story.