GREAT NEWS!!!

[Kassaundra]

Totally agree about not teasing the roo at any time. I also don't hold, pet, coddle them him at all. (I'm not one for holding or petting any of my chickens). I raise feeder insects and garden w/ my chickens so I regularly hand feed them either the insects I raise or the pest insects I collect from the garden, I make sure he gets his fair share of them from MY HAND, he actually knows his name. I help him look good to his ladies b/c most of the insects I give him he calls his ladies over and offers to them which I totally let happen. If you don't have insects to feed them I've heard a treat they love is the walmart hambuger type dog food. Give him respect let him be what he is, but don't take any aggression even a small amount. You can remove the hard part of the spurs, I've heard its fairly easy holding the hard part w/ some pliers and twisting them off, they either don't bleed or bleed very little, so they say. But I've never done it. I have some videos of me feeding them I'll see if I can post them, or see if I already did, not sure.

 

[Kassaundra]

This is the one I posted before, but it isn't the one I was thinking of, it's not Oreo's flock, but he makes a brief apperance on the sidelines (his group had been fed just prior to this and he came mooching for more.

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33383

 

[lesa]

Steve, how fun! I didn't know you had chickens as a youngin'...What a handsome lad!

 

[Kassaundra]

Digits, that pic is just adorable. And the hole, well you were just ahead of your time, that's "styling" now isn't it???? lol

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

Very happy that you are getting your Buckeyes and a Buckeye Roo. If you are getting a roo, that is good choice in my opinion. You just never know what is going to happen. So to have a matched set at any given time is a good thing!

 

[vfem]

Buckeye's are pretty docile... I haven't been around a roo, but I assume he's probably calmer then a EE. :/

 

[digitS']

If anybody would have said something nice to me like that then, I think I'd have been willing to loan them a handful of cateyes and my 2nd best aggie shooter so that they could join the guys. Wouldn't even have to keep their knuckle down if they didn't want to, around a circle in the dirt for a game of marbles . . .

Instead, and having lost those things . . . how about this? Nachoqtpie, since you are thinking of adapting that 42" Purina plan to a 4' by 8' coop - maybe this would be of help.

www.backyardchickens.com/a/a-simpler-coop-design

There are no dimensions listed except, as I said, I'd make the floor out of one 4 by 8 sheet of plywood instead of using it for the roof next time. That would leave the roof a non-standard size. Since I seem to make so much use of cedar fence boards in recent years, 6' fence boards for the roof deck would probably work okay.

Steve

 

[nachoqtpie]

vfem MORE docile than EEs?? Wow. LOL Now we're talking about Greyhound type relaxing... the first time I see one lounging on a roost... I'm going to rename them Greychicks!

Steve... thanks!! I have my friend Jody helping me this time... he's a construction guy. I've been showing him about a million coops and telling him how I want to make them different and etc etc... he just keeps laughing at me.