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

We did this last year. 12 eggs. 6 hatched. 5 roosters. The roosters ended up in chicken soup.

 

So....you have one bow legged chicken in your henhouse now?

 

In 40 years of keeping hens I've had just one, sometime in the last 20 years. Pretty nifty you got to experience it.

 

Hello - I posted this over in DIY room. Was suggested to post over here - I didn't see how to 'move' it. Appreciate any advice and I appologize for the same post in two forums. Thank you......

Hello. I live in the country. Have had chickens for 5 years and never had a problem...yeah, I got one now though. I only keep about 5 hens at a time and never had any problems with predators. Well, that's the past! A weasel cleaned out my birds!

My chicken run was fenced on all sides with chain link fence, was worried about coyotes in my area.

I want to upgrade my fencing...but how small of fence do I go with to keep weasels out? the average opening of chicken wire doesn't seem small enough?

Also, I just started building 'weasel boxes'.

Better fencing and and weasel boxes - that's my plan...very open to other ideas too!

Thank you.

 

The beginnings of my 14 yr son Sam's 10' x 16' greenhouse building project......




I'll post more pics as he progresses....


Here's a cedar log fence he built in December for the goats.....

 

The fence is cool. Are the rails tied together?

 

I had him drill through the logs 6" from the ends, and then run a piece of 3/8" rebar down all the way through.
Then the whole thing is wired to the t-posts.

Another pic.

 

I'd say she'll have chicks under her in a couple days. Chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch but that depends on how close to 100 degrees they are under her. It could be a few days later or right on time. If there were eggs being laid in her nest when she was already setting she might well keep sitting until they hatch if you take away the first hatchlings. Keep us posted, please!