Recent content by Missceegee

Here’s Karen, a white silkie mama, with her two surviving chicks the day she and Dwight the roo (half silkie/half Easter egger) moved into the tractor with the bantams.

You’re not wrong. Worth the investment for us.

We now have 3 of the 10’x12’ and 1 of the 6’x10’. These things make my day to day so simple. Yes they were pricey, but for us, the trade off is worth it. I have just moved a bantam silkie mama hen, daddy roo, and their two chicks that are a month or so into the bantam tractor and it’s going...

A review update... ROOST BARS - We removed the roost bar closest to the nest box since when the perch popper for the nest box released, it would hit the birds, we still have plenty of roost space for the 25 we have in each coop with space leftover. In the 10x12, the bars do begin to sag in...

Can I walk into the coop or how tall is the door of the coop? 3 x 5 Coop has a 3’ door with an overall height of approx. 4’ 6 x 10 Coop has a 4’ door with an overall height of approx. 5’ 10 x 12 Coop has a 5’ door with an overall height of approx. 6’

I have had 2 for about 6 weeks. They are terrific and I am about to order 2 more.

Wow. Those prices are drastically lower that what I get here. I get 40 lb Nutrena All Flock for $24 a bag. I am considering getting from a local mill and it is 50 lb or $36 of non-gmo fresh milled monthly. I have near 60 birds.

Yay! We did our first every hatch with this incubator. All 7 silkie eggs hatched!

I set up a small animal cage brooder with mama heating pad because I want to see them from the side. This was days ago and I never hit post. All 7 are doing great!

Day 2. Out of the incubator and into the brooder box. Learned to eat and drink.

Chick 7 just hatched! Hooray! 100% hatch rate for our first try! Guess the Nurture Right 360 incubator worked well!

My daughter brought home 7 bantam silkie eggs and we put in the incubator. Our first time and all 7 pipped. So far today 6 have hatched and the 7th isn't gonna be too long. There are two bigger barnyard mix eggs a friend wanted us to try so we put them in a few days later. We will see how they...

Coops are together. Birds are in. 24 hens per coop and a roo in one. Assembly was simple and straightforward. I have not installed the perch poppers yet. However when I lowered them tonight I bumped a couple birds on the roost closest to the nest. I think making it 6-8” more forward...

Ackermans. Had to pay to have them shipped via box truck as there are no local dealers.

Not currently. My wood John Suscovich style tractor that I use for broilers doesn’t have one and has never needed one (knock on wood). They get moved daily or twice a day.