Homesteading Chicken Coop Build, Chickens, Pond, Garden & Projects

Best advice ever!!

 

Elise says she jealous she wants baby goats and ducks

 

Baby pool time.

 

I've only got the two chicks but am in the same boat, I already want them to move out because they are growing so fast and quickly outgrowing the bin they are in, they look cramped. Soon as that lid comes off to clean, change food/water, they are like a missle outta there. We let them out as much as possible to handle them and play with them but they are little poop machines. I also built them a little pen outside with some scraps from the pole barn that I'll start keeping them in once the weather breaks.

 

The chicks arrived today. All of them were alive. Half true blues and greens and then half barred rock cockerals that will be meat birds.

 

This is a chicken waterer that I made out of some pex that was lying around.

 

And, this is a little tour of the greenhouse.

 

Hard to tell from the picture. Starting to build a 3rd coop in a barn lean-to. With current price of lumber we are using pallets and old barn tin for the new walls.

Coop 2 built last year. Next to coop 1 that became nesting box and brooding area.


Nesting boxes are old kitchen cabinets. Base board for a lip and old doors on top to keep birds from roosting. Need to add landing boards to top row

 

Will that be your method of getting them out of the pond and back into captivity? Otherwise it will be a challenge to get them out.

 

"Rain barrels"
2 trash cans painted black. In the winter, they absorb heat from the sun and keep the greenhouse warm. We had a few hard freezes but for 3 seasons, it does pretty well. I have some tubing running into there. On the roof, there is a gutter of sorts that will collect water and drain to the barrels. I only have a little less than half of the roof with gutters and the barrels are always full.
They make store-bought rain barrels with special intakes and stuff. Those were way more than i was interested in spending so I got some trash cans.
The greenhouse is usually extremely warm in the summer so I leave the door open so it vents.