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Post by new2chooks on Apr 28, 2010 13:27:12 GMT 8
Hi everybody, Stumbled on this great forum today and joined instantly hoping to get some good advice and ideas. My family had a couple of chooks when I was young (so much younger than today) and since we have recently moved to a 5 acre block, I would like my children to have the same experience I did, so decided to get a chook house up and running. I have spent the last weekend converting an old woodshed into a hen house with secure run attached. It is still not complete yet but I am wondering about ventilation and lighting? It has now power! I was thinking of a whirly bird on the roof? Also insulating the walls and roof? And installing a couple of windows? I will post pictures tonight but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Then comes the decision about which birds, a mixed flock sounds good and I have my heart set on a Brown Leghorn Rooster, can they all live together or would he need to be kept separate? So many questions
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Post by quambie on Apr 28, 2010 14:02:36 GMT 8
HI new 2 chooks And welcome your hen house sounds good enough to move into good on you you should enjoy the site we all are like minded Trev
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Post by shea on Apr 28, 2010 14:11:56 GMT 8
Hi new2chooks, this is a great place to learn and get ideas. It sounds like you had a busy weekend building the new run. I don't think the chooks will need power as they don't watch alot of tv. The rooster you want will be fine with other same-sized hens. I've got a beatuiful bitza if you'd like him. Where abouts are your 5 acres? I dream of 5 acres. Shea
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Post by new2chooks on Apr 28, 2010 14:45:25 GMT 8
Hi Shea, I am down in Baldivis will be a couple of weeks at least before I am ready to actually house birds but thank you for the wonderful offer have you a picture of him? Lloyd
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Post by rap on Apr 28, 2010 17:46:03 GMT 8
Hi new2chooks welcome to WAP
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Post by ashley on Apr 28, 2010 19:57:32 GMT 8
:-) Welcome.
That sounds like a chook palace! We insulated our chook house when we built it, it does make it much more comfortable but now that I've had the girls through a summer and a winter I have to say I think it was really an overkill, they only go in there at dusk and come straight out again dawn... they just don't appreciate the efforts we make sometimes!
Make sure you post pictures when you get your flock!
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Post by new2chooks on Apr 28, 2010 21:31:24 GMT 8
I will Ashley if I can work it out? Trying to post some pics of the shed but no joy, how do you do it?
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Post by ikbokchook on Apr 28, 2010 21:46:50 GMT 8
Hi new2chooks! Sounds like you have a great set up there! To post photos, you need to get a photobucket account, upload them to that, then link them to here. Hang on and I'll see if I can find a thread that explains it better!
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Post by ikbokchook on Apr 28, 2010 21:48:52 GMT 8
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Post by pianochook on Apr 28, 2010 22:41:50 GMT 8
Hi new2chooks, welcome to WAP
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Post by Cluck N Waddle on Apr 29, 2010 8:25:44 GMT 8
Welcome to WAP new2chooks
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Post by new2chooks on Apr 30, 2010 10:37:15 GMT 8
Thanks ikbokchook that photo tip worked well, here are some photos of the shed at the moment This is how it used to look! Digging in the fox proofing (I hope) Fence going up Entrance Laying the new floor Veiw of the run from the shed The new wood shed if anyones interested
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Post by quambie on Apr 30, 2010 11:32:48 GMT 8
well that lot should set you up for life well done nothing should get under are you going to put anything on the top of the run the reason i ask is that foxes are great climbers Trev
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Post by new2chooks on Apr 30, 2010 12:45:19 GMT 8
Yes Trev, I will have to put a roof on as we have a lot of flying predators around as well!!
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Post by Duck Diva on Apr 30, 2010 19:12:04 GMT 8
Welcome to the site! Lovely chook house and run. Im sure your new aditions will be really happy Cheers, Wendy
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