The magical chicken making device! I love my 'bator, although it's a cheapo jobby. This is it's third run, and I've gotten it a digital thermo/hygrometer for the occasion.
I have araucana/easter egger chickens. Chooks are awesome. Friendly, funny and practical! You can't get better than a chicken. They play a silly instrumental soundtrack in my head when I watch them walk around. I have: 13 eggs from my two hens, 6 of the same breed from the breeder and 6 from his cuckoo marans, that I'm hoping to hatch. I will have fluffybutts!
We built the chicken coop ourselves with mostly reclaimed materials. The only things we paid for were; screws, a few 2X4s and the roofing, which ironically blew off in a wind storm. We're replacing the 'store boughten' roofing with the fence row metal roofing that we found on the property. It's ugly, but it's working fine. We will paint the whole she-bang (this summer?) and then won't it be a sight? The coop is 8'X10' and should hold 10-12 birds in the winter. I plan on filling it up this year! One day, my long suffering DH (who will have a clever pseudonym one of these days) will build me another coop. I'd call myself a chicken lady, but then the cats would be jealous.
11 years ago
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