delflipz17
Chirping
Hello everyone, I recently found this community on Facebook and it seemed like a perfect place for a beginner.
Over the past few weeks, I have had this beautiful daily visitor to my property. I want to think its a rooster? I have no experience but it would be odd I think for a hen to wander alone. Its not uncommon in my area for neighbors to have chickens. But after moving here 3 years ago, this is the first time that I have had one wander onto my property. It is a friendly chicken, not scared of people whatsoever. I had a large gathering on July 20th of about 60-70 people and this chicken walked right by everyone, within a couple of feet of people playing cornhole, so it could get to the area it had been typically grazing. I have come to really appreciate this animal, it brightens my day each time it visits me. This has encouraged me to research possibly getting a few of my own. My wife is a veterinarian, and she has been very supportive of the idea of having chickens, as long as I am the one to take care of their daily needs.
Enter picture number 2. I feel as if I have an almost perfect opportunity to adapt this old shed into a chicken coop. There's currently only some misc. junk in there that would take 5 minutes to completely clear out. If I remember correctly, the prior owner just said their kids used it as a fort/clubhouse. It is rather large, probably at least 20 ft sq. inside and has a ladder that goes up to a second story. Am I wrong to think that it would be relatively to turn this into a coop? Additionally, this shed is a good 100 yards from my garage. Behind the shed is about 150 more yards that I keep mowed to the edge of a creek on the border of my property. So theoretically they could have a very large enclosure by just putting some wire up.
As for the chickens themselves, I'd ideally just like to have them as egg layers and pets. I'm an avid hunter so I would have no problem butchering the chickens, but that just seems like too much time and effort to me, i'd rather just buy them already prepared
. I live in Northwestern Pennsylvania, so we generally have cold winters and heavy lake effect snow. One of my main concerns was what to do in winter. What kind of things do you need to get them through? I saw other posts abut people in Montana and Colorado keeping them alive so it must be doable for me as well.
Open to breed suggestions. The egg laying is really just a cool secondary feature to me. Mainly interested in the beauty of the birds themselves. Easter eggers seem neat and they provide obviously cool colored eggs.
Thanks for reading my post, hope to begin this journey with you all soon!
Over the past few weeks, I have had this beautiful daily visitor to my property. I want to think its a rooster? I have no experience but it would be odd I think for a hen to wander alone. Its not uncommon in my area for neighbors to have chickens. But after moving here 3 years ago, this is the first time that I have had one wander onto my property. It is a friendly chicken, not scared of people whatsoever. I had a large gathering on July 20th of about 60-70 people and this chicken walked right by everyone, within a couple of feet of people playing cornhole, so it could get to the area it had been typically grazing. I have come to really appreciate this animal, it brightens my day each time it visits me. This has encouraged me to research possibly getting a few of my own. My wife is a veterinarian, and she has been very supportive of the idea of having chickens, as long as I am the one to take care of their daily needs.
Enter picture number 2. I feel as if I have an almost perfect opportunity to adapt this old shed into a chicken coop. There's currently only some misc. junk in there that would take 5 minutes to completely clear out. If I remember correctly, the prior owner just said their kids used it as a fort/clubhouse. It is rather large, probably at least 20 ft sq. inside and has a ladder that goes up to a second story. Am I wrong to think that it would be relatively to turn this into a coop? Additionally, this shed is a good 100 yards from my garage. Behind the shed is about 150 more yards that I keep mowed to the edge of a creek on the border of my property. So theoretically they could have a very large enclosure by just putting some wire up.
As for the chickens themselves, I'd ideally just like to have them as egg layers and pets. I'm an avid hunter so I would have no problem butchering the chickens, but that just seems like too much time and effort to me, i'd rather just buy them already prepared
. I live in Northwestern Pennsylvania, so we generally have cold winters and heavy lake effect snow. One of my main concerns was what to do in winter. What kind of things do you need to get them through? I saw other posts abut people in Montana and Colorado keeping them alive so it must be doable for me as well.Open to breed suggestions. The egg laying is really just a cool secondary feature to me. Mainly interested in the beauty of the birds themselves. Easter eggers seem neat and they provide obviously cool colored eggs.
Thanks for reading my post, hope to begin this journey with you all soon!
I love that shed!
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!
