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Well, a couple of weeks ago, I finally moved the then 6-week-old chicks from the brooder to their new home in the Buckeye Boudoir! Checking things out and trying to figure out what the white pipes are for. Still wondering where they are...the brooder was much smaller! What the heck is...

I have just moved 13 6-week-old Buckeyes into their own coop - and they'll have their own run very soon. Going to try my hand at small-level Buckeye raising - 12 hens, one rooster, Now here's the backwards part: I have a lone Buckeye pullet 16 weeks old mixed in with 12 other mixed hens I'll...

I'm trying to edit my coop page, and having some issues... (1) Can't seem to place pics side-by-side anymore, which increases the space being taken up! (2) After typing a paragraph, hitting "enter" causes the cursor to go to the top of the page, rather than letting a new paragraph start...

My new coop is made from used pallets - link for it is in my signature. I stopped at a local Community Center Thrift Shop this afternoon, and bought a couple of things: Recognize it? How many said "coffee table"?...look again... It's a brooder! A litlle hardware cloth, a lid, and a heat...

Not great shots, but had to share this! The kids are getting pretty used to me being in the coop a couple of times daily - now they've taken to standing at the brooder door and watching me...trying to figure out what I'm doing out there (they also want out of the brooder - almost done with...

Good afternoon, everyione! I've been through so many coop threads the last couple of weeks, and am leaning heavily toward a pallet coop. I'm pretty good (usually) with a hammer and saw, but I can't quite figure out from the pics and build-to-completion descriptions how the floor is done for a...

OK, I've gone through a lot of posts with nesting box ideas. Something popping up pretty frequently is a comment here and there, and/or pics, about curtains over the front of the box, doors that close and give the hen privacy...until now, I hadn't heard of doing this. What is the purpose of...

I picked up some new babies Friday morning, and placed them in the brooding box in the coop. Went out ths morning, and found two of them somehow wedged under the water fountain. The fountain was on a flat board on top of the shavings, but the board wasn't quite as wide as the bottom of the...

Well, I got started building a coop about the beginning of April. Now that it's complete, I call it the Mixed-Up Motel - 5 breeds of hens, and a construction design that's a little mixed-up! Here's what I had the first week of April: Just a basic 4' x 8' henhouse - watch out for chicken...

One of the people at work had to take off sick, meaning I had to change my shift to this evening. Since I was up, I thought I'd complete the run for the chicks - they're getting bigger, and starting to be a little cramped. Here's the run as it as it stands right now: I was so pleased with...

I'm working on my materials list for a new coop/run to segregate my Buckeyes from the others and try raising them. I was thinking self-stick vinyl tiles for the flooring, which seems to be popular, quick and an inexpensive way to do that. Then I thought maybe just sealing the floor with...

I have some Buckeyes coming in in a few weeks, and my intent is to keep them segregated from the rest of the flock - RIRs, NHRs, BRs, Ameracaunas - and try raising some chicks. The current flock is simply for fresh eggs - at least for now. The incoming chicks are 8 hens and 1 roo - OK on roo...

Isn't it odd how sometimes you wake up and have something on your mind that has no reason to be there right away? Happened to me this morning. For some reason, as I woke up, I had a doubt about the size of my coop! I'm just about to finish running hardware cloth around the remaining 2 run...

I've posted my in-progress coop/run before, but have put part of it back on here to ask a couple of questions. I'm thinking about building another coop/run - now that I realize the construction errors I made with this one - plus I'm enjoying this, and am seriously thinking about getting into...

It has been a slow process, but finally making progress! The coop is, basically, completed. The run is almost ready: The coop is 4' x 8', and the run is 8' x 8' - plenty of moving around room! The bi-fold door you see will be moved out to the new door frame, and the hardware cloth behind...

I looked out the window earlier, and noticed all 6 of my girls sitting on the cabinet in front of the nesting boxes. That's a ceramic egg - recently set things up, but a little early - the girls are 9 weeks old - 3 RIR and 3 NHR. I went out quietly and took a look, and 2 of them were...

I raised chickens a few years ago, and they didn't do this...at least not that I saw: There are 6 hens - 3 RIR and 3 NHR - there, 9 weeks old. They have scratched a hole about 2" deep and 6" round. I was wathcing thme one day and figured they were going after bugs, since the henhouse...

Still need to add the run to the front of the henhouse - that'll be done this coming week. The cabinet in there came from a childcare center going out of business - it's a book shelf kinda thing - the boxes are 12" x 12" x 12" - perfect! Those are tools in the boxes - early pics...

I have 6 chicks in the henhouse - about 9 weeks old. Last weekend, I introduced nine 1-week old babies - all was fine - a little early for outside, I know, but the weather was great! Watched them for several days - everyone got along real well - in fact, the older girls were taking the babies...

Just built a henhouse and added chicks. I try to keep things as natural as possible, and installed several dead cedar branches - this is the Texas Hill Country - plenty of dead cedar branches lying around in the yard - and they make great natural roosts! I was reading an article about setting...