Re: The Chicken House ( for Diesel)

[Diesel73]

W-auw Lass, it lookin good!  :yes:

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Hoping to get the birds local and hybrids, 2 Goldlines –  Rhode Island Red x light Sussex and 2 Amber Star, not sure what cross they are. Both good layers and good for idiots beginners according to all the breeders.

Yep, they indeed good layers and vèry easy to maintain and easily broody (which is what iiii like  ;D ). I got Sussex. About half my stock is .  😉 They become easily docile too.

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Will be wood chip put down in the run, galvanized feeder and water fountain, wood shavings in the house and straw in the nest box.

Me myself am a complete hay and straw person, i’m not a fan of wood chip. It’s harder to keep clean as in summer bacteries tend to breed better in wood chip. The dropping stay moist longer in wood chip than in hay. And i find wood chip more dustier than hay.
But you don’t have barns and only few chicks, so if you clean it often enough (when it gets dirty, that might take some time so you won’t have to do it like every 5 days or so) you got noooothing to worry about ànd dirty wood chip IS lighter in weight than dirty straw or hay.

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Got to get louse powder and mite powder. Anything else I need?

Uhm, yes chicken grain  :canadian: hahaha.
If you give them some extra corn you’ll get those delicious big  deep orange yolked very tasy eggs.  😉

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Getting a book on chickens, got a book token for my birthday

If you got the token from your husband i know what hé was thinking bwahahahaha. Get her a token to chose chickenbook and yet letting her think it was hèr idea, build her a chickenhouse, get a few chickens and prrrrrresto! Breakfast every weekend with bacon and eggs, and good homemade grilled chickens in the possible near future. Smart man  :yes:  😀

Just kidding Lass, you got a GREAT chicken house, and you are going to have a lot of fun out of your chickens too. You’ll tast the difference in the eggs, i promise you that. Specially if you feed them everything that’s left over from kitchen and the table and the doggies won’t eat.

Although… chickens go just as nuts about minced tripe than dogs doo  :tease: .

I promise you, you’ll never like those typical store eggs from batterychickens ever again  :-* .