I manually open & close the doors for my girls, too. At night, it gives me a chance to count heads & make sure everyone came in to roost. In the morning, it gives me a chance to walk among them & see if anyone is sick or injured.
I also did that. "Miss Brown" was an Isa Brown chicken that was very human oriented. She would wait outside the chicken house door for me to show up. I would pick her up and together we would count and inspect all the other hens (and the rooster in each house), then she would be the last one counted as I placed her on a perch. With two chicken houses, it was not unusual for the hens to go into either of the houses, so it was quite a chore to remember who was accounted for.
:) Thumbs up on the pajamas! I used straw for many years Patara; deep bedding in Ohio in a barn and never got mites over 15 years. What we did get was lots of mice who adored living under it & tons of barn webs because as you know the chickens are messy eaters and you get vermin with food on the ground. But anyone out there living in sub zero weather like me ....I absolutely swear by deep mulching and your garden will thank you for it and the chickens stay nice and warm because of it. Because I used deep mulch system in chicken tractors that had to be parked for different flocks they too enjoyed warmth off the snow, no frozen feet, no mites, no frost bit combs.
We bought an 8x8 storage building for our chickens. No floor and huge door (like a garage door but opens to the left, not up). We screwed 2x4’s from one stud to the other side for perches. Nests are up front. I don’t use any wood chips or straw as rats/mice seemed to like that stuff. Instead I rake my dirt floor every day and scoop out that great dirt fertilizer at least once a month. In Florida, my ground is all sand but after a month, the sand actually looks like dirt in the bottom of my coop.
This put a smile on my face! Thank you for sharing. We are further south and use sand in our coop and boxes. I have a kitty scoop to use daily (not always, keeping it real) to not attract flies. We use diatomaceous earth as well. Thanks again for the tour
Hey patera we had a busy weekend. Last October when we renovated our upstairs I was listening to u while painting walls. This year I'm listening while canning homemade chicken broth..cooking corn and cutting it to freeze.. stacking hay and doing all the things. I stocked up on chicken food and rabbit food hay and filled 5 has cans this weekend. Stay busy friends. Gas is 3.89 in nw pa. I went over the border and got it for 3.14.
First time chicken mama here and I’m learning a lot! Built my coop shed and run all by myself this summer. Just learned about coccidiosis the hard way but my girls are responding to the medication I think. I probably over reacted but oh well. Happy hens happy life. I appreciate your videos!
In our chicken coop, we have a poo slide under the roost and a door on the outside wall of the coop. It works great. The chickens don’t have access to the slide so they are not stepping in their stuff. When it is time to clean the slide, go to the outside of the coop, open the door, slide their poo out & you are done. The chicken coop stays clean for a long time.
Hi today 56 degrees. Raining. Snow on Thursday high 29 degrees low 17 degrees. Must get busy. Thanks for sharing. Love a good big coop. Blessings for all 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I went with cleaned creek sand in my coop for the last 4 years, and it has been a dream! No cleanup at all, no smell. Even under the perches which is over the outside doorway so they scratch and cover their poop. It is always dry and they have plenty of space for dustbathing. I also never have had a single mite issue. I never change it out either. I have added a little more over time but I still have the original leftover pile that was delivered. It is 6" deep and I am so happy with the results, dry, clean, and no smell! I will never go with anything else.
I'm glad you mentioned Diatomaceous Earth, and Ivermectin! I use DE around my house, and Ivermectin saved me when I had 'the Rona', that stuff is a miracle worker for sure!
We did epoxy coating on all our surfaces. Makes a world of difference in clean up! I highly recommend it! By the way, we are really looking forward to your next history session! Thanks for all you do.
Funny that I’m dressed like you this morning opening up my coop! I also open and close up my girls everyday. We built our first coop but for an anniversary a couple of years ago, the hubs bought me an Amish coop. I love it! Being a new chicken mom, I painted and hung curtains and painted some of the black coating on the floor. And then I learned they will poop everywhere and will destroy my pretty coop quickly. I use both pine shavings and straw as I’m north of you. Will be closing the windows for winter next weekend.
This was (much needed) fun. I think I would like to have chickens, but not sure how to keep them safe AND happy. I am a family of one, so building an aviary is not cost effective. Your cabin is adorable.
Such a good video! I am sitting here laughing at my 5 month old puppy dachshund mix because she is going all over my sewing room looking for the chickens!
We use pine for our coop and nest boxes as well up here in Maine. I only use a little straw in the outdoor covered run for their feet. It’s not very absorbent for bedding so we only use it outside….😊
I'm in Maine and I don't use straw in the coop anymore. What a nightmare to clean. They get pine shavings and in winter they do just fine. Buy hardy, breed hardy. Last year I the artic blast where it was -50F at night, I had 2 hens and a rooster that I didn't see and they survived the night outside. I made sure to hatch eggs from them this spring. I don't advocate leaving your chickens outside but I took that whoops to a positive. Chickens do NOT need heat, they may be domesticated but they are still survivors 😉
LOL! Loved this! Threw me right back to the farm growing up. Of course, after I was diagnosed with asthma I was no longer allowed in the coop! Which was fine with me cuz I had been flocked by roosters 2 x’s as a child so Me and Chickens avoid each other like the plague! 😆
Here in Wisonsin we deal with moisture so Straw doesn't work here either as it holds in moisture so I only use pine shavings. And yes chickens poop EVERYWHERE so the only time you will have a "nice" looking coop is for the following 5 minutes after you clean the whole thing. lol
Yep..tell me bout it😊 We had 200 chickens. Large barn used half for chicken coup other half for milking a couple cows. Cement floor. Good to clean except in winter when it freezes and as you know their sticky stuff glues to the floor.😊
In my coop,I use grass hay. I'm in the PNW, my hens REFUSE to nest in pine shavings. Lol! As,soon as I put a small handful of grass hay they jumped In and started laying again.
Love your lady throwing a fit. I have a 8x10 shed with 10 ladies and 1 rooster. Although, I have an auto door, I personally like to go out and check to make sure all made it in and to see their sleeping arrangements. I also play Native American music to settle down. I have a similar ladder like yours and I put a box under it with sawdust to collect their droppings. I clean it daily and every other week, I spray the perches down. I gave up trying to prevent them from sleeping on my shelves and have put nesting pads down to catch their droppings. I have a nesting box that cost $$ but my bigger lady doesn’t like it; my 8 babies aren’t laying yet.
I use dried yard clippings (no chemicals) in my nesting boxes & dried, Fall leaves for the floor bedding. If everything needs changed out & my supplies of grass clippings & leaves are gone, then I'll use the pine shavings. Otherwise, i try to minimize expenses by using natural items God has blessed me with.
We just finished our chicken coop and are using the best nest chicken boxes and we love them! No worries about getting pecked when picking eggs. We have a sign up that says rise and shine mother cluckers! All the materials we used were used like the siding is cedar that we repurposed from another building. The insulation is rock wool that was given to us and the mice won’t get into. And have a solar door. Love yours patara!
I’m having a mite issues in my coops 😡😡😡….first time in 20+ yrs…….it an awful situation…..doing our best to treat area and birds…..weather not cooperating for major cleaning! Hopefully……Sunday for clean out…..ivermectin treatment tomorrow. Excellent advice throughout video…thanks😊
Way to go Patara and James-getting it done in a big way! 🐔 Enjoying the homestead life vicariously through the both of you 🥰 God bless you abundantly and big hugs!
Your nesting boxes are awesome, & hosing them down seems far easier than cleaning wooden ones! Thank you for sharing - we'll ck those out. Our chickens have lost feathers everywhere too, & the RIRs have such long, beautiful tail feathers. We love our chickens, & have them thanks to you♡ Your chicken coop looks great, btw:)
😂When we first made our little coup, the chickens kept somehow getting over the door and over the window. We would change something so that they couldn't do it. So then they would find a different place. My boyfriend was at wits end.. He looked at me and said.. We'll honey I guess you just can't outthink a chicken! So now we use that phrase alot 🐓... Thank you Patara... You keep us going
So real! You are so true to the word... R.E.A.L. I use a dog cage/crate to acclimate my newbies into my regular flock. On and on, season after season of newbies. You know the "chicken count rule". It aint happened. I love my girls. Newbies and old hens. Never enough girls. I did use the crate once as a sick bay too. Thanks for keeping things real. And Karen wants her privacy please lol.
I have also used the pour-on Ivermectin on my chickens with great results. I've also used the injectable in their waterers. Wild birds nesting in coops will bring the mites with them.
Oh nuts. Just cleaned out my big coop. Wish I would have watched this beforehand. That part about laying the feed bags down is pretty clever. Next time I’ll give that a go.
I have tons of cosmo seeds too! They are so easy to save. I want to redo the inside of our coop too similar as you are doing. I’ve gotten ours enclosed for weather so far.
When you started yelling at "Karen" to jump, jump, jump (which was hilarious), Milo thought there was a chicken loose in the house , and started chasing her lol! 😂😂😂! I love this video! real life on the homestead - especially our creative fashion statements 😂
Went out and picked Pinto's and shelled them so they finish drying and then into the storage jar. I have maybe one more picking to go and will probably net 3 cups for the year. That is spring and late summer plantings.
Ty Patara. We been using medium size old totes with lid that has been cut out for hen to enter. Standing on its side we screwed it into the wall. Hens love it :) re use whatever we can for sure. Also want to get straw for outside on the snow, I heard chickens love to eat the seeds that are in there. But we don’t want those mites! Gods Peace and Blessings and Protection to you guys
I love this! We have some girls and my dog could hear that one hen talking it up and he was trying to get to her! They love him and he doesn't pay them any attention mainly because they all surround him and he can't walk lol
Good morning 😊 You're girls are so funny 😂 Thank you so much for the pointers because I don't have as many as you but some of your ideas I could use for my girls.
I think it's great that you have utilized something that was already on the property. I think I would roll that cord up to the ac and hang it above the ac unit.
In Missouri we built pole barns back in the 90s for our goats and chickens. Back then 1200 to 1600 would get a 30x20 or 30x 30. Built one first thought we could house the goats and poultry in there. Ended up using that big one for hay and goats and 2 years later built the smaller one for the poultry. That was when I was working off the farm. I'd take all my earnings and put it into the house or property
Love to watch and go with Patara's stream of consciousness - for me the life not chosen but.... if I was younger! Love to watch as that is the best I can do.
I don't have as many as ya'll, but I have to do work on the chicken lot 2x year, and they just got a big henhouse this spring. The lot(was dog lot)is attached to the house, and the lot is literally wrapped top to bottom in layers of wire. It's ugly, but the wildlife can't touch my girls. In order to keep mites out, I've stopped using straw, and use cedar chips, and the floor is garden mesh wire covered in DIRT.
Good morning everyone ☺️🙏
Hey deer Gun Girl !!
I agree 💯% and I love hearing the girls in the background great video as always God bless you and your family❤
I manually open & close the doors for my girls, too. At night, it gives me a chance to count heads & make sure everyone came in to roost. In the morning, it gives me a chance to walk among them & see if anyone is sick or injured.
Aww….I don’t have chickens, but I can relate to your comment. I love animals of any kind, so I can see myself doing what you just said…😊
I also did that. "Miss Brown" was an Isa Brown chicken that was very human oriented. She would wait outside the chicken house door for me to show up. I would pick her up and together we would count and inspect all the other hens (and the rooster in each house), then she would be the last one counted as I placed her on a perch. With two chicken houses, it was not unusual for the hens to go into either of the houses, so it was quite a chore to remember who was accounted for.
Chickens are hard work, but they give meat & eggs. Priceless 😊
I agree plus the bonus of the joy as we watch their funny antics
HAVE A GOOD WEEK.ALL OUR LOVE😊
:) Thumbs up on the pajamas! I used straw for many years Patara; deep bedding in Ohio in a barn and never got mites over 15 years. What we did get was lots of mice who adored living under it & tons of barn webs because as you know the chickens are messy eaters and you get vermin with food on the ground. But anyone out there living in sub zero weather like me ....I absolutely swear by deep mulching and your garden will thank you for it and the chickens stay nice and warm because of it. Because I used deep mulch system in chicken tractors that had to be parked for different flocks they too enjoyed warmth off the snow, no frozen feet, no mites, no frost bit combs.
How did I miss this last year😊
Good morning, Patera and family. Thanks for all you share with us.
I am laughing so hard I can't eat. She is louder than you and that's saying something. You deserve that special hen, I love it!! Made my morning ❤
We bought an 8x8 storage building for our chickens. No floor and huge door (like a garage door but opens to the left, not up). We screwed 2x4’s from one stud to the other side for perches. Nests are up front. I don’t use any wood chips or straw as rats/mice seemed to like that stuff. Instead I rake my dirt floor every day and scoop out that great dirt fertilizer at least once a month. In Florida, my ground is all sand but after a month, the sand actually looks like dirt in the bottom of my coop.
This put a smile on my face! Thank you for sharing.
We are further south and use sand in our coop and boxes. I have a kitty scoop to use daily (not always, keeping it real) to not attract flies. We use diatomaceous earth as well. Thanks again for the tour
Hey patera we had a busy weekend. Last October when we renovated our upstairs I was listening to u while painting walls. This year I'm listening while canning homemade chicken broth..cooking corn and cutting it to freeze.. stacking hay and doing all the things. I stocked up on chicken food and rabbit food hay and filled 5 has cans this weekend. Stay busy friends. Gas is 3.89 in nw pa. I went over the border and got it for 3.14.
First time chicken mama here and I’m learning a lot! Built my coop shed and run all by myself this summer. Just learned about coccidiosis the hard way but my girls are responding to the medication I think. I probably over reacted but oh well. Happy hens happy life. I appreciate your videos!
I love how real you are. Thanks for the morning chat with Carin the Chicken
In our chicken coop, we have a poo slide under the roost and a door on the outside wall of the coop. It works great. The chickens don’t have access to the slide so they are not stepping in their stuff. When it is time to clean the slide, go to the outside of the coop, open the door, slide their poo out & you are done. The chicken coop stays clean for a long time.
Hi today 56 degrees. Raining. Snow on Thursday high 29 degrees low 17 degrees. Must get busy. Thanks for sharing. Love a good big coop. Blessings for all 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I went with cleaned creek sand in my coop for the last 4 years, and it has been a dream! No cleanup at all, no smell. Even under the perches which is over the outside doorway so they scratch and cover their poop. It is always dry and they have plenty of space for dustbathing. I also never have had a single mite issue. I never change it out either. I have added a little more over time but I still have the original leftover pile that was delivered. It is 6" deep and I am so happy with the results, dry, clean, and no smell! I will never go with anything else.
I'm glad you mentioned Diatomaceous Earth, and Ivermectin! I use DE around my house, and Ivermectin saved me when I had 'the Rona', that stuff is a miracle worker for sure!
Wow!!! Hotel Hen-ton!!! Lol. Awesome!!!! ❤❤❤❤
We did epoxy coating on all our surfaces. Makes a world of difference in clean up! I highly recommend it!
By the way, we are really looking forward to your next history session! Thanks for all you do.
Thank You For Sharing Your Chicken 🐔🐓 Coop!!
Lol ! " do I need to name you Karen?!" You are hilarious!
Love the way you keep it real Patara. Have a great day everyone. Love & prayers to all. 💜 🙏
Funny that I’m dressed like you this morning opening up my coop! I also open and close up my girls everyday. We built our first coop but for an anniversary a couple of years ago, the hubs bought me an Amish coop. I love it! Being a new chicken mom, I painted and hung curtains and painted some of the black coating on the floor. And then I learned they will poop everywhere and will destroy my pretty coop quickly. I use both pine shavings and straw as I’m north of you. Will be closing the windows for winter next weekend.
Love and prayers to all
This was (much needed) fun. I think I would like to have chickens, but not sure how to keep them safe AND happy. I am a family of one, so building an aviary is not cost effective. Your cabin is adorable.
I enjoyed this video and I’ve never raised chickens. I learned something. 🙂
Such a good video! I am sitting here laughing at my 5 month old puppy dachshund mix because she is going all over my sewing room looking for the chickens!
I use wood ash on the floor then the bedding in our runs and 3 coops- no bugs . I use DE in the chicken dust bath- works great. Love the giant coop ❤
My son uses a large tool of brown paper under his parrot’s cage for a quick pick up. I use sand in Florida and love it. 😊
My gals love those nesting boxes! So easy to maintain.
We use pine for our coop and nest boxes as well up here in Maine. I only use a little straw in the outdoor covered run for their feet. It’s not very absorbent for bedding so we only use it outside….😊
We use bales of hemp and put them in the chicken house for bedding. My daughter does the same thing.
Do not have chickens, but you never know, so bits of knowing now is great for later.😊
You are so good to your animals. Most fowl will not let you touch them, must let you hold them. I love Karen, she has a voice! Love your videos. ❤❤❤❤
I'm in Maine and I don't use straw in the coop anymore. What a nightmare to clean. They get pine shavings and in winter they do just fine. Buy hardy, breed hardy. Last year I the artic blast where it was -50F at night, I had 2 hens and a rooster that I didn't see and they survived the night outside. I made sure to hatch eggs from them this spring. I don't advocate leaving your chickens outside but I took that whoops to a positive. Chickens do NOT need heat, they may be domesticated but they are still survivors 😉
Good morning. Keep God first in your life. Pray Prep
Love you all.
LOL! Loved this! Threw me right back to the farm growing up.
Of course, after I was diagnosed with asthma I was no longer allowed in the coop! Which was fine with me cuz I had been flocked by roosters 2 x’s as a child so Me and Chickens avoid each other like the plague! 😆
Here in Wisonsin we deal with moisture so Straw doesn't work here either as it holds in moisture so I only use pine shavings. And yes chickens poop EVERYWHERE so the only time you will have a "nice" looking coop is for the following 5 minutes after you clean the whole thing. lol
She definitely wants to speak to the manager!🤣🤣🤣
WOW! Your son has a stunning voice.
Yep..tell me bout it😊 We had 200 chickens. Large barn used half for chicken coup other half for milking a couple cows. Cement floor. Good to clean except in winter when it freezes and as you know their sticky stuff glues to the floor.😊
In my coop,I use grass hay. I'm in the PNW, my hens REFUSE to nest in pine shavings. Lol! As,soon as I put a small handful of grass hay they jumped In and started laying again.
Love your lady throwing a fit. I have a 8x10 shed with 10 ladies and 1 rooster. Although, I have an auto door, I personally like to go out and check to make sure all made it in and to see their sleeping arrangements. I also play Native American music to settle down. I have a similar ladder like yours and I put a box under it with sawdust to collect their droppings. I clean it daily and every other week, I spray the perches down. I gave up trying to prevent them from sleeping on my shelves and have put nesting pads down to catch their droppings. I have a nesting box that cost $$ but my bigger lady doesn’t like it; my 8 babies aren’t laying yet.
I love your love of animals!!!! Me too!!!!!!😘🐾😘
Good morning Patera and family.
Patara! Thank you. I’m building one right now. ❤
That coop has cuteness potential!
🥰🐔❤
If I could build my coop the way I wanted, it would have a hosebib and non-stick surfaces so I could just power wash it out. Lol
15:58 We use pine shavings in or coops too, but we use those nesting pads for their boxes. And yep, they poop LOL. You have a great coop Patara!
I use dried yard clippings (no chemicals) in my nesting boxes & dried, Fall leaves for the floor bedding. If everything needs changed out & my supplies of grass clippings & leaves are gone, then I'll use the pine shavings. Otherwise, i try to minimize expenses by using natural items God has blessed me with.
Thanks for sharing! Blessings❣️❣️
We just finished our chicken coop and are using the best nest chicken boxes and we love them! No worries about getting pecked when picking eggs. We have a sign up that says rise and shine mother cluckers! All the materials we used were used like the siding is cedar that we repurposed from another building. The insulation is rock wool that was given to us and the mice won’t get into. And have a solar door. Love yours patara!
I’m having a mite issues in my coops 😡😡😡….first time in 20+ yrs…….it an awful situation…..doing our best to treat area and birds…..weather not cooperating for major cleaning! Hopefully……Sunday for clean out…..ivermectin treatment tomorrow.
Excellent advice throughout video…thanks😊
I'm glad you showed this!
Way to go Patara and James-getting it done in a big way! 🐔 Enjoying the homestead life vicariously through the both of you 🥰
God bless you abundantly and big hugs!
Love the new coop and your chicken. Karen is a sweetheart. She just wants some love. Have a Blessed day. Thanks for the chicken memories.
Your nesting boxes are awesome, & hosing them down seems far easier than cleaning wooden ones! Thank you for sharing - we'll ck those out. Our chickens have lost feathers everywhere too, & the RIRs have such long, beautiful tail feathers. We love our chickens, & have them thanks to you♡ Your chicken coop looks great, btw:)
Patara, I always learn something from your videos. I didn't know chickens and ducks could live together!
😂When we first made our little coup, the chickens kept somehow getting over the door and over the window. We would change something so that they couldn't do it. So then they would find a different place. My boyfriend was at wits end.. He looked at me and said.. We'll honey I guess you just can't outthink a chicken! So now we use that phrase alot 🐓... Thank you Patara... You keep us going
Good morning friends ❤❤❤
She is chewing you out good! The coop is very nice. I'm sure you will be delighted when it's completed
I do love a hen that will have conversations with you
So real! You are so true to the word... R.E.A.L. I use a dog cage/crate to acclimate my newbies into my regular flock. On and on, season after season of newbies. You know the "chicken count rule". It aint happened. I love my girls. Newbies and old hens. Never enough girls. I did use the crate once as a sick bay too. Thanks for keeping things real.
And Karen wants her privacy please lol.
Love the door!!
I have also used the pour-on Ivermectin on my chickens with great results. I've also used the injectable in their waterers. Wild birds nesting in coops will bring the mites with them.
That racket is music to my chicken-adoring ears!
It's a beautiful day on the homestead! Thanks Patara 🎃👍
Oh nuts. Just cleaned out my big coop. Wish I would have watched this beforehand. That part about laying the feed bags down is pretty clever. Next time I’ll give that a go.
What a sweet coop, Patera! God bless y'all!
I have tons of cosmo seeds too! They are so easy to save. I want to redo the inside of our coop too similar as you are doing. I’ve gotten ours enclosed for weather so far.
Thank you for sharing I love all of your caring and time . I love the hot mess it’s how we roll. ❤
When you started yelling at "Karen" to jump, jump, jump (which was hilarious), Milo thought there was a chicken loose in the house , and started chasing her lol! 😂😂😂! I love this video! real life on the homestead - especially our creative fashion statements 😂
So cute, thanks for sharing😂
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That’s so funny :)
YOUR SON SINGING...COULDN'T POST ON IT....I know you are one proud momma. 👏 🎉❤
Happy Monday from Good Ole St Mary's County MD
Tell “Karen” thank you for the belly laughs. Hilarious!🐔 😂
Chandelier 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you - we are in the process of a coop expansion, helpful to see your set up.
Let us see the coup when it's done. You are so funny.
Thank you Patara for sharing your chickens with us love that Curiosity the Cat 🐈⬛. Blessings ❤
Went out and picked Pinto's and shelled them so they finish drying and then into the storage jar. I have maybe one more picking to go and will probably net 3 cups for the year. That is spring and late summer plantings.
Thanks beautiful.
Ty Patara. We been using medium size old totes with lid that has been cut out for hen to enter. Standing on its side we screwed it into the wall. Hens love it :) re use whatever we can for sure. Also want to get straw for outside on the snow, I heard chickens love to eat the seeds that are in there. But we don’t want those mites! Gods Peace and Blessings and Protection to you guys
That chicken sounds like shes laughing (right before 17:00) 😂
Wonderful video and information Patara.
Thank you.
Not only looks like homesteading, but sounds like it, too! Now maybe they will understand why you often film in your car! Love it! 🙂
Great video. Your girls are spoiled. They have it made and know it. They deserve it.
This video made my day. I was waiting for the hen to jump on command. Chickens are smart. 😀
DE for dust bathes and roosts. Wood ash also for dust bath. DE, food grade, to mix in flours and meals.
Im excited for the future going to be building a new coop for my girls and boys! Much love to you sister Patera have a wonderful day!
My chickens love those nesting boxes so much I found four Bresse hens squeezed into one to sleep in.
I love this! We have some girls and my dog could hear that one hen talking it up and he was trying to get to her! They love him and he doesn't pay them any attention mainly because they all surround him and he can't walk lol
Good morning 😊
You're girls are so funny 😂
Thank you so much for the pointers because I don't have as many as you but some of your ideas I could use for my girls.
I think it's great that you have utilized something that was already on the property. I think I would roll that cord up to the ac and hang it above the ac unit.
You said the word but I love the well water cup😅
Getting done
Squeaky coop door spooked me. Hehe. Great video. 👻
In Missouri we built pole barns back in the 90s for our goats and chickens. Back then 1200 to 1600 would get a 30x20 or 30x 30. Built one first thought we could house the goats and poultry in there. Ended up using that big one for hay and goats and 2 years later built the smaller one for the poultry. That was when I was working off the farm. I'd take all my earnings and put it into the house or property
Yup for real stuff and looks . I love it
Love to watch and go with Patara's stream of consciousness - for me the life not chosen but.... if I was younger! Love to watch as that is the best I can do.
I don't have as many as ya'll, but I have to do work on the chicken lot 2x year, and they just got a big henhouse this spring. The lot(was dog lot)is attached to the house, and the lot is literally wrapped top to bottom in layers of wire. It's ugly, but the wildlife can't touch my girls. In order to keep mites out, I've stopped using straw, and use cedar chips, and the floor is garden mesh wire covered in DIRT.
Good morning. God Bless.