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

Looks great!

 

Looking good!!!

 

Just got 130 meat birds in at 5:10 Tuesday morning. Gotta love when the post office calls that early. With that many, I have them separated into two different boxes. Site isn’t letting me load pictures at the moment. Will try later

 

Better an early call than a late call, no? The 130 might have been down to 120 with a late call....

 

Oh absolutely. This was only one day after hatching - less than 24 hours. They are safe within 72 hours but I agree, the sooner they are exposed to feed and water, the better. 5:10am was actually nice. A lot of the times it comes 20 minutes before I'm supposed to be at work (6:45)

 

If you don't mind me asking, where did you order from?

 

Sam's making progress on his greenhouse build.





Meanwhile Tom and I have been setting posts for our 24x24 goat barn...got em all set yesterday, and poured concrete around them today.

 

Yeah, cedar is pretty much a weed around here.... and since I have a sawmill we use quite a bit of it for our farm construction.

 

Gonna have to take a few days off of the building projects, because we're sposta get 4" of rain in the next 24 hours....

I'm planning to get it framed up (and maybe even get the roof on) in the first part of next week while we have some nice weather days.... hopefully...

 

Got the beds mostly filled. Have some low spots to top off.

Ran out of light tonight. 3 of the straw bales will be for potatoes.


Repurposed a barrel I had since I was a kid. I'll fill it up by pumping water from the creek. Base is a piece of ash, sitting on black locust and sassafras rounds. I'll run drip lines from it.

I posted in wrong thread. Can mods move this to gardening please.

 

Meyer Hatchery in Ohio. Been using them for about 6-7 years. Prior to that I used Murray McMurray out of Iowa. I only made the switch one year due to a bird flu quarantine in the midwest.

 

Pacing like an expectant father, huh?

Waiting for pics!

 

Get the cigars ready!!

 

Picked up today, had to go to 5 different places to find some!

 

That’s a lot of meat birds, feed and poop!!! Are all 130 for you and your family or are you raising them to sell? We have had 30 for about two weeks. Considering raising another batch to sell later in the spring.

 

Back in the 90's, I grabbed a few meat birds from young chicks also. 20-25 maybe....not manyu.

Those danged things grew so fast I swear that they grew right out of their leg sockets! Huge birds. They would walk to another spot in the yard I had for them and once they got to that point, would lay down!