Posts Tagged ‘pullets’
#4-CHICKEN COOP-TRAP DOOR-HOW TO BUILD-RAISING CHICKENS: how to make an eyebolt metal smithing converting a cup hook.
Today my husband and I worked on the chicken coop for our new pullets. In this video is HOW TO BUILD A TRAP DOOR. The trap door is very useful, because it is small and allows the chickens to go out into the chicken yard, without allow too much heat to escapse….during the cold winter days. And at night we can close the trap door…allowing the chicken coop to stay warm, during freezing weather.
Also the trap door keeps small possums outside during the night, mice and rats…that will eat their food at night.
BIG PLUS: RAVENS, MAGPIES, MOCKINGBIRDS AND CROWS DON’T GO INTO THE COOP AND STEAL THE EGGS EITHER.
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This is Part 3-Building a Chicken Coop.
Today we finished putting in the windows and hanging the door,next weekend the roof construction begins. At the request of our friends, they wanted to learn how to construct a chicken coop. Our friend came over to help and wanted to discuss with hubby about his survival film…Burying Weapons and Food-Time Capsule…it’s pretty funny…and I’m surprised we got any work done at all. The film he was asking about is in the video response below the featured video.
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This is Part 2 of-CHICKEN COOP-NEW CONSTRUCTION
Complete video instructions from beginning until completion. HOW TO BUILD A CHICKEN COOP/TRACTOR/HENHOUSE
HOW TO USE A SKILL SAW
FRAME IN WINDOWS
ROOF RAFTERS
This was created for my group and friends who are raising chickens.
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Today my husband went hiking after building the chicken coop…my job was to buil a WALKIN CHICKEN YARD. This is a no-wood-cutting project. The Walkin Chicken yard, is built quickly and is enough room for 6 chickens. The chicken yard is covered on all sides with poulty wire, including the ceiling. The simple to build modules can be assembled in minutes. The cost was less than 60 dollars. I built this in 3 1/2 hours by myself. Tonight we moved the new pullets into their chicken coop palace.
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This video was first broadcasted July 21, 2009. Separating pullets because of our bully bardrocks. When our alpha pullet-Charity laid the first egg, she started to fight will all of our young pullets. Even her crop the red topnotch on her head was larger and drooping over. The Americaunas were born the same day on March 01, 2009. But didn’t have the fight in them to protect themselves, and were constantly on the run. They didn’t start laying eggs, until we separated them. On the very first day we moved the Americaunas to their our chicken yard. The first egg was laid in the early evening. A chicken will delay laying eggs, if she doesn’t feel the environment is safe to raise her chicks.
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I converted a lean-to (shack) into a chicken coop. The coop is approx 5′ x 9′. I have a book called “back to basics” that we got at a garage sale. It had some guide lines and measurements that I utilized. I used mainly old plywood and wood we had laying around so I didn’t have to buy much wood. The hens will be six months old in a couple of weeks, and that’s about the time they start laying eggs. We got 4 – Rhode Island Reds (brown eggs), 2 – Buff Orphingtons (brown eggs), and 4 – Americanas (blue or green eggs)
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Sexing chickens with any certainty is hard to do (unless you have sex link breeds). ‘Seperating the Pullets from the Cockerels’ was originally in the April 2008 issue of the Keeping Chickens Newsletter – a free online poultry magazine available at http://www.keepingchickensnewsletter.com
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Faun is our newest girl here at BigFeather farm!
We just bought her today. She is a stunning girl, and is so sweet! Here she is, just checking everything out and settling in to her new forever home.
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This video is in response to questions about what to feed your chickens when they start laying their first eggs.
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