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Cheap Chicken Coop DIY Ideas?
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We had chickens when I was growing up….bunch of work. Every day they have to be cared for one way or another .
The fresh eggs are nice but like someone else posted….”Farmlands Best”
Just consider the work, time and expense is all I am saying
Good luck !!
(Oh, and to add: you ever slaughter a chicken to cook ? One you raised from a chick ? Something to think about )
The fresh eggs are nice but like someone else posted….”Farmlands Best”
Just consider the work, time and expense is all I am saying
Good luck !!
(Oh, and to add: you ever slaughter a chicken to cook ? One you raised from a chick ? Something to think about )
I get that. But the “sanity to egg” ratio gets out of whack quick with chickens. Everything likes to eat them and it’s usually a mass casualty event when it happens. Good luck with it and I hope it’s not too frustrating of a journey.
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Yep. Crack a store bought egg and and a true pasture raised egg in the same pan. It'll immediately be obvious which is which. Taste is evident as well.
I don't know if your chickens will be able to free forage outside of the coop during the day but that's a big plus if they can. Ours were extremely easy to take care of. I lined the bottom of their Coop with linoleum and about once every other week or so would simply slide the whole piece of linoleum out and hose it off into a compost bin. That was it. Easy as could be.
Yep but they don't look or taste the same. We also get enjoyment out of just having them around and watching their antics. My 80yr old neighbor has told me he loves to hear them making their chicken noises because it reminds him of his childhood. Any extra eggs we get go to my neighbors who also prefer them over store bought. We don't eat the chickens. We live in city limits so I don't have a rooster.
Most of our eggs go towards making breakfast burritos. My wife uses about 40+ eggs to scramble up with cheese and ham. She wraps it up in flour tortillas and flash freezes 3 or 4 cookie sheets of burritos. Once froze they go into ziplok bags and anytime we want a breakfast burrito we just stick in the microwave.
We also scramble up the extra eggs and then dehydrate them and place them in jars for later.
I designed a full width 2" tall drawer into the bottom of our little coop/tractor. Lined it with linoleum. Made cleanup easy too.
People give away trampolines all the time - a woman I go to church with built one of these -
I do have concern about that, but if I can get my dog to stop digging under our fence (he needs to be clipped), he will be a pretty big deterrent. Of course a hawk/owl would just snatch and go, the land critters will hopefully be held at bay.
I am counting on that day coming though. If it happens, I'll come back on here and ask either for advice to stop it or how do I go about raising rabbits, lol.
We have two dogs, one of them does everything she can do to get to the chickens, I mean...EVERYTHING! She spent so much time hitting her face against the chicken wire that she made holes in it, I had to put wood fencing around the bottom 40 inches or so to keep her out.
