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Thanks to A Vagabond for the suggestion
( , Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:12)
We here at B3ta love it when a plan comes together. Tell us about incredible projects and stuff you've built by your own hand. Go on, gloat away.
Thanks to A Vagabond for the suggestion
( , Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:12)
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chicken house...
I decided that it was time that I started replicating the good life in our back garden by getting some chickens. I planned, sawed, nailed, bled, nailed, bled, sawed, bled.........until I completed my project. It was a thing of beauty and the chickens were delighted with there new home. The project was completed by about August last year and we were looking froward to reaping the rewards with fresh eggs.
We had 5 chicks which were nearing laying age about November time and I went out every morning in the expectation of finding some eggs (it felt like when I was younger and tried growing something which resulted in having to check every five minutes in the expectation that something had sprouted!). We live in Scotland and, like the rest of the country, last winter was freezing. So cold in fact the local stoat population got VERY hungry, so hungry they killed all my chickens one day, in daylight, while I was at work.
Blood, sweat, tears in building a beautiful house for them and NOT ONE SINGLE EGG FOR MY TROUBLES!!!!
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 10:33, 14 replies)
I decided that it was time that I started replicating the good life in our back garden by getting some chickens. I planned, sawed, nailed, bled, nailed, bled, sawed, bled.........until I completed my project. It was a thing of beauty and the chickens were delighted with there new home. The project was completed by about August last year and we were looking froward to reaping the rewards with fresh eggs.
We had 5 chicks which were nearing laying age about November time and I went out every morning in the expectation of finding some eggs (it felt like when I was younger and tried growing something which resulted in having to check every five minutes in the expectation that something had sprouted!). We live in Scotland and, like the rest of the country, last winter was freezing. So cold in fact the local stoat population got VERY hungry, so hungry they killed all my chickens one day, in daylight, while I was at work.
Blood, sweat, tears in building a beautiful house for them and NOT ONE SINGLE EGG FOR MY TROUBLES!!!!
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 10:33, 14 replies)
What I eggspected was and eggsellent eggucating story with a good yolk at the end.
This was not to be as the chicken littles were taken from us by your lax security Sir.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 10:57, closed)
This was not to be as the chicken littles were taken from us by your lax security Sir.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 10:57, closed)
1. I'm not gay
2. I'm not gay
3. He is Scottish which means ginger pubes.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:27, closed)
2. I'm not gay
3. He is Scottish which means ginger pubes.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:27, closed)
Grey with matted bits of deep fried Mars bar stuck in there.
I am not stereotyping in any way, I got told all this first hand by a man in the pub.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:33, closed)
I am not stereotyping in any way, I got told all this first hand by a man in the pub.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:33, closed)
I heard he wears a little toupe down there
I think the same guy in the same pub told me.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:53, closed)
I think the same guy in the same pub told me.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:53, closed)
thestranded.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/cookie-monster-wtf-is-this.jpg
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:36, closed)
Hey man, we get it. You aren't gay
Nosir, thinking of Sean Connery's sweaty grey manboobs doesn't send shivers up your spine at all
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:38, closed)
Nosir, thinking of Sean Connery's sweaty grey manboobs doesn't send shivers up your spine at all
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:38, closed)
I was more a Roger Moore fan.
In an un-gay way of course.
*Struts to look macho*
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:53, closed)
In an un-gay way of course.
*Struts to look macho*
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 16:53, closed)
I have given up..
and sold the hen house, it was just too painfull.........
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:58, closed)
and sold the hen house, it was just too painfull.........
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:58, closed)
Yeah, try again in the spring.
We got some in May at point of lay, they started laying about 3 weeks after we bought them. They've survived the winter so far, and have just been moved into a new house that we've made from a plastic playhouse.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:39, closed)
We got some in May at point of lay, they started laying about 3 weeks after we bought them. They've survived the winter so far, and have just been moved into a new house that we've made from a plastic playhouse.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:39, closed)
a new house that we've made from a plastic playhouse.
That's a clever idea.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:49, closed)
That's a clever idea.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 11:49, closed)
Much cheaper than an eglu cube.
We've put two shelves in it as roosting space, harvested from a defunct mini greenhouse, and a couple of nesting boxes. The chickens climb through one of the windows. Can be cleaned with a pressure cleaner!
Edit: I'll take a snap or two and do a proper post.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:28, closed)
We've put two shelves in it as roosting space, harvested from a defunct mini greenhouse, and a couple of nesting boxes. The chickens climb through one of the windows. Can be cleaned with a pressure cleaner!
Edit: I'll take a snap or two and do a proper post.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 12:28, closed)
I'd like to see it
My wooden henhouse is on its last legs and this sounds like a really good solution :)
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 17:26, closed)
My wooden henhouse is on its last legs and this sounds like a really good solution :)
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 17:26, closed)
Short of taking my own snaps (I might not get round to it before the question closes)
It's basically the same house in the photos on this page.
www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/sep/08/quincy-farmers-hope-to-see-crowds-at-farmer/?print
They've made a plywood door and let the chickens in at ground level. We made a ramp through one of the windows and raised the floor a bit, so we can reach in the door to collect eggs, without having to tread in all the chicken poo. I'll try to take a few snaps tomorrow morning though.
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 9:24, closed)
It's basically the same house in the photos on this page.
www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/sep/08/quincy-farmers-hope-to-see-crowds-at-farmer/?print
They've made a plywood door and let the chickens in at ground level. We made a ramp through one of the windows and raised the floor a bit, so we can reach in the door to collect eggs, without having to tread in all the chicken poo. I'll try to take a few snaps tomorrow morning though.
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 9:24, closed)
And these guys have done a much better job than we have.
pacycrochets.blogspot.com/search/label/Chickens
Again, it's the same house, and you can find them on eBay for not-much. They'll flat-pack to transport too, but you'll need a big car or a van to collect it.
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 9:27, closed)
pacycrochets.blogspot.com/search/label/Chickens
Again, it's the same house, and you can find them on eBay for not-much. They'll flat-pack to transport too, but you'll need a big car or a van to collect it.
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 9:27, closed)
Are you sure about the identity of the perpetrator?
(Because this gives me an opportunity to shoehorn this old one in:)
A weasel is weasily recognised, but a stoat is stoatally different.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 17:48, closed)
(Because this gives me an opportunity to shoehorn this old one in:)
A weasel is weasily recognised, but a stoat is stoatally different.
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 17:48, closed)
the important thing to remember about putting chickens in your garden
is to stop calling the garden "the garden" and to start calling it "my land".
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 18:47, closed)
is to stop calling the garden "the garden" and to start calling it "my land".
( , Tue 22 Nov 2011, 18:47, closed)
That's not how you say it.
It's not "My land", it's "my fuckin land." as in "get off my fuckin land"
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 0:13, closed)
It's not "My land", it's "my fuckin land." as in "get off my fuckin land"
( , Wed 23 Nov 2011, 0:13, closed)
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