Day 16 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
What is the best material for a chicken coop? The chicks are bigger, stronger, faster and got to enjoy the day outside with us. We knocked out the windows on the Chicken Coop and the Sandman surprised us early and we had to scramble with the wheelbarrow to get it done before dark. We researched and found that using contractor's sand or contractor's gravel in the chicken run and chicken coop...
Day 17 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Chicken coop contractors sand and chicken grit for Chicken run. Wheel barrow fun What is the best material for a chicken coop? The chicks are bigger, stronger, faster and got to enjoy the day outside with us. We knocked out the windows on the Chicken Coop and the Sandman surprised us early and we had to scramble with the wheelbarrow to get it done before dark. We researched and found that using...
Day 18 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Chicken coop floor plan and what is best to put on chicken coop flooring
Feathers, feathers and more feathers! The chicks are getting their teenage awkwardness and we are working on the chicken coop flooring for the chicken coop. What is the best flooring for a chicken coop? what is the easiest coop to clean? quick and easy flooring for our chicken coop. what is the cheapest chicken coop flooring?
Day 19 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Nothing cuter than sleeping chicks but are they sleeping or sick chickens? Always have to keep an eye on the chicken house. The girls are growing and the brooder might not be big enough. Might have to build a brooder or figure out when to put chicks in coop
Day 20 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Good News, we are going to try raising a new set of egglayers, bad news...we are probably going to have to figure out the sustainability of meat birds and homesteading sooner than we thought. Check out next steps on building a chicken coop.... Seems we had a little mix up when buying our first set of chicks and they have grown extremely fast and big like Cornish cross meat birds or meat chickens.
Day 21 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
How to weigh a chicken is also important. We have had our chicks for 3 weeks and we are trying to stay on top of how to much water to give Chickens, and how much food to give chickens; and came up with some new changes in our feeding/watering program. See how to build a Chicken Water bucket with Chicken Nipples; kind of automatic watering system for coop .
Day 22 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
The Controversy of How to Build a Chicken Roost or a chicken coop can be a touchy one in the Chicken Community. We try to look into research, youtubers, chicken breeders and farmers and see what we came up with! We are getting further and further into homesteading and loving it! The kids are jumping into the construction and raising Chickens as well. We are building more and more on our chicken...
Day 23 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Something was trying to get into the chicken coop last night so we had to protect our chickens. We laid hardware cloth 360 degrees around the perimeter of Chicken Run and chicken coop. We are moving along on painting the chicken coop trimming and also picked up a chicken sand box for their baths. This chicken house is definitely coming along. The kids are enjoying learning homesteading. And do we...
Day 24 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
How to stop chickens from smelling bad. We had to do something asap about the Chicken smell! The indoor brooder smell was eye-watering yesterday so last night we tried to figure out how to stop chickens from smelling so bad! And we put a pan or spill collector under the hanging chicken water and as the chickens run around and hit the water it drops into the collection pan instead of into the pine...
Day 25 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
What is Diatomaceous Earth? we wanted to research the best way to prevent/kill Chicken Mites Chicken Lice and protect the chicken coop and chicken run from pests. This is why we looked at how does diatomaceous earth work? How long does it take for diatomaceous earth to work? Can diatomaceous earth hurt you? Why we use Diatomaceous Earth for chickens.
Day 26 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
How to build egg boxes for your chicken coop. We decided to stay with the same materials we already have and the consistent with the look/construction so we used 7/16 OSB with the 7/16 smart siding pre-primed and then used 1x2s for framing. Then we grabbed some 90 degree Simpson tie angles to hold up the boxes for eternity and then secured it the the chicken coop...
Day 27 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
How to Waterproof a chicken Coop. We don't get much rain in Northern California but it still does rain and we just added egg boxes onto the chicken house and wanted to make sure we keep it waterproof. We don't want rain or water dripping onto the chickens while they are laying eggs. We used roofing tar-paper for edging flashing and then a garage door recycled rubber-weather strip to waterproof the...
Day 28 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Wounded chicken Fodder and 4 week weigh in
Well, our first war wound is here, and somehow this chicken has a wound right below her ear. It was chicken nursing day and we washed the wound with soap and water and then disinfected with hydrogen peroxide and then kept dry. We also decided to quarantine her for a couple days and allow her to heal. Watching the egg layers and meat birds...
Day 29 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
What lights to put in chicken coop. We are planning on the big move outside to the chicken coop from inside brooders but we are trying to figure out what lights to put up; if we decided to. Chickens have different vision from humans. they can see ultraviolet light and putting up fluorescent lights or bright LED's may cause irritation to their eyes. It will seem like strobe lights to them...
Day 30 Into Homesteading Of Our Raising Chickens Journey
Day 30 Our Favorite Moments and Chickens and the Finished Chicken Coop & Chicken Run Tour
We made it 30 days and have learned so much! We recap our favorite moments and chickens. Chicken coop flooring with linoleum and chicken poop splashguards (thx @Daz Dragon for the suggestion!). Watch the first chicken coop and chicken run tour and more!
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