Raising chickens

Evo

Don't give her a banning gun!!!

dlgoff

Only you can do that.

Evo

Does Roger have an air conditioned coop? I don't want my baby keeling over from the heat, what with all of those feathers she's wearing. Maybe let her sleep with you at night.

dlgoff

I'm really careful about that. There are two screened windows on the coup and if I ever think that they are getting too hot, I will put a fan in one to circulate the air. So far, on the hot parts of the day, I let them out. But the coop so far hasn't gotten hot enough to cause any problems.

My uncle use to raise chickens in Arkansas where it gets really hot and humid. He had 7 houses with ~50K chickens in each. He had large fans and misters that worked well.

Don't worry Evo. I look after them like they are my children.

Edit: There's a nice elm tree for shade next to the coop also.

Ivan Seeking

Why did the chicken cross the road?

dlgoff's place was on the other side!

dlgoff

At last. An answer to the eternal question. I'm the chicken god I guess.

Ivan Seeking

I'm just a lowly fryer.

dlgoff

You are here by now my road crossing flyer. Spread the word.

Ivan Seeking

No, not flyer, fryer!

You know, like friar. Now you've completely ruined my witty pun.

dlgoff

Not such a good god after all. Fry on my man.

Ivan Seeking

Just call me Fryer Puck.

dlgoff

dlgoff

OMG. Evo's going to sh*t. Guinevere was killed last night or this morning. RIP

Something dug under the pen (made a 1" high X 3" wide hole) and managed to grab her and pull her to the pen; close enough to bite. I just buried her. Must have been a raccoon.

I am so pissed off.

Ms Music

That is horrid news! That is one of my big fears.

I hope the raccoon doesn't come back. Were you able to get the hole repaired and reinforced?

dlgoff

I've temporally placed concrete blocks there. I going to put rail-road ties around the entire bottom of the pen. I'll try to post pictures later. I can't believe how the chicken could have let him reach in through such a small opening, considering the pin is 8'x8'.

Damn raccoons.

rhody

Time to break out the night vision googles, rifle, traps and do some late night varmit trapping and/or hunting Don, don't go down without the good fight. May Guievere RIP.

Rhody...

dlgoff

Steel traps will be out tonight. The last two chickens will get revenge.