Recent content by Jerhanner

We finally finished the run.

Whenever you cook burgers, bacon, whatever - put some oatmeal in the greasy pan when you're done. It will soak up all the grease AND become a chicken favorite. They know full well when I'm carrying the oatmeal bowl out to the run. And don't buy premade flock blocks - everyone and their sister...

My husband is a logical man; I'm saving this to show him when he questions how 4 chickens became 8, and now 11.

You know those rubber mats for shoes and boots? I put that under the roost and then throw in the shavings. Then on light-clean weekends, I only have to pull out that mat for 80% of the poop.

Hey! That was our first coop!. Now it's our hospital/maternity/time-out coop. Be very religious about getting snow off the roof or it'll be shot in 4 years (an easy fix, but still...). Super smart perch idea too.

I make sure to shovel them a path to the summer house and the sun house. I also put straw bales against the front of the coop in the winter and they love hanging out underneath the coop - that way they can still have little dirt baths in the winter!

Guess who has room for 4 more chickens if she adds one more vent to the coop?!

Oh, I could care less about the inbreeding; I just didn't want mutant chickens. I have the nicest rooster in the universe and don't want to give him up! If it really is a 'normal' thing, then straight line breeding it is!

The door is blocking it - but there is a 'summer house' back there which I use as the nursery.

Right now I have 8 ladies and a gentleman. My Broody Girl is currently sitting on 5 eggs, and I'm wondering how many more I have room for? Follow up: is 'trading roosters' a thing to keep the inbreeding at zero?

I sure can't until I hear that first cockadoodledoo!