How do y'all set up your breeding pens?

[r4eboxer]

I have absolutely zero experience in this subject but I was thinking some soft lights, put on the best of Barry White and chill a bottle of Chardonnay would be a good start. Or does Merlot go better with chicken?

I like your wine choice but I think I'd better go with Marvin Gaye and some sexual healing.

 

[janelle18]

Here is my set-up
I have between 3-8 birds per pen (one rooster plus x-amount of hens) My pens are perfect size for 7 birds I would say. The ones with 8, if the birds are civil everything is fine, but if they are energetic/bored like my Barred Rocks, then they pick at each other, so half of them have naked behinds...

each pen has a man size door and access to the nest boxes from the aisle.


During construction




Nest boxes from the outside
(my mom decided each breed needed a name plate)


Nest boxes from the inside, they each have a ladder up to them now. One thing i would change is making the front lip a little higher because they kick the shavings or straw out like NO other. Solution to this was to add carpet in the bottom of each box...lifesaver... they can scratch it all they want and it doesnt move and it save eggs from being broken!


these are the other two pens, on the opposite side of the barn. They incorropate a old feed trough (barn used to be used for sheep eons ago...)
this is set up for my chicks, but my icelandics are now in the pictured pen.

I have 7 'breeding pens' in total then i have the area under the ramp of the barn made up as a room for my extra roosters.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have absolutely zero experience in this subject but I was thinking some soft lights, put on the best of Barry White and chill a bottle of Chardonnay would be a good start.  Or does Merlot go better with chicken?

PERFECT!!! Works for me.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I have absolutely zero experience in this subject but I was thinking some soft lights, put on the best of Barry White and chill a bottle of Chardonnay would be a good start.  Or does Merlot go better with chicken?

I like your wine choice but I think I'd better go with Marvin Gaye and some sexual healing.

I was thinking Harry Connick, Jr. LOL

 

[r4eboxer]

I was thinking Harry Connick, Jr. LOL

A little bit of me and a whole lot of you
Add a dash of starlight and a dozen roses, too
Then let it rise for a hundred years or two
And that's the recipe for making love
It doesn't need sugar 'cause it's already sweet
It doesn't need an oven 'cause it's got a lot of heat
Just add a dash of kisses to make it all complete
And that's the recipe for making love
And if you've made it right you'll know it
It's not like anything you've made before
And if you've made it wrong you'll know it
'Cause it won't keep you coming back for more
I didn't get it from my grandma's book upon the shelf
I didn't get it from a magical and culinary elf
No, a little birdie told me you can't make it by yourself
And that's the recipe for making love

Tee Hee hee

 

[kuntrygirl]

I was thinking Harry Connick, Jr. LOL

A little bit of me and a whole lot of you
Add a dash of starlight and a dozen roses, too
Then let it rise for a hundred years or two
And that's the recipe for making love
It doesn't need sugar 'cause it's already sweet
It doesn't need an oven 'cause it's got a lot of heat
Just add a dash of kisses to make it all complete
And that's the recipe for making love
And if you've made it right you'll know it
It's not like anything you've made before
And if you've made it wrong you'll know it
'Cause it won't keep you coming back for more
I didn't get it from my grandma's book upon the shelf
I didn't get it from a magical and culinary elf
No, a little birdie told me you can't make it by yourself
And that's the recipe for making love

Tee Hee hee

TOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[KrisH]

A little bit of me and a whole lot of you
Add a dash of starlight and a dozen roses, too
Then let it rise for a hundred years or two
And that's the recipe for making love
It doesn't need sugar 'cause it's already sweet
It doesn't need an oven 'cause it's got a lot of heat
Just add a dash of kisses to make it all complete
And that's the recipe for making love
And if you've made it right you'll know it
It's not like anything you've made before
And if you've made it wrong you'll know it
'Cause it won't keep you coming back for more
I didn't get it from my grandma's book upon the shelf
I didn't get it from a magical and culinary elf
No, a little birdie told me you can't make it by yourself
And that's the recipe for making love

Tee Hee hee

Here is the recorded version

RobertH

 

[kuntrygirl]

A little bit of me and a whole lot of you

Add a dash of starlight and a dozen roses, too

Then let it rise for a hundred years or two

And that's the recipe for making love

It doesn't need sugar 'cause it's already sweet

It doesn't need an oven 'cause it's got a lot of heat

Just add a dash of kisses to make it all complete

And that's the recipe for making love

And if you've made it right you'll know it

It's not like anything you've made before

And if you've made it wrong you'll know it

'Cause it won't keep you coming back for more

I didn't get it from my grandma's book upon the shelf

I didn't get it from a magical and culinary elf

No, a little birdie told me you can't make it by yourself

And that's the recipe for making love


Tee Hee hee

Here is the recorded version

RobertH

I love Harry Connick, Jr. Too bad he's married to a Victoria's Secret model. :/

 

[Hoot]

I like your wine choice but I think I'd better go with Marvin Gaye and some sexual healing.

Wouldn't that be Some Sussexual Healing?

Did we veer off topic? lol. my bad!

 

[r4eboxer]

Wouldn't that be Some Sussexual Healing?

Did we veer off topic? lol. my bad!

Sort of tehe, but we do want conditions to be their best.