Alright, nearly fully completed the chicken run we started to build yesterday. Got two sides - it's attatched to the main run and coop, so we only needed two sides, one including a single-panel door - up and built, the door put in and half of the roof attatched. we're going to wire the rest rather than put another wire-covered panel up.
We got half of this run by a couple of people who made it then didn't want it anymore, but we've held onto it for a while, then we used a double-panel with a door for a seperater for the main run and little bits here and there for other runs.
Then later on tonight I'm going to cadets. :) I'll update this post later on.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Friday, 17 June 2011
20th June 2011
Caught a wild rat in the rat-trap in the garden last night. We'd become overrun with them, but one of our six dogs, a Jack Russell bitch, Tippi, caught four in two nights, and we'd snapped about 16 in the rattraps we'd borrowed from out two-doors-down neighbour, Paul. The one we caught last night was the last one, we think; It was the only rat that had managed to kill any of our chicks - we breed chickens and on the 17th, Friday, it had killed one of our 8 week old mix-breed chicks, and attempted to catch one early Sunday morning, (01.28 am to be precise) but mum was awake and downstairs, so she came in and roused me so I could go down in my pajama's, crawl around on the floor and find the thankfully uninjured chick, and move them so the rat couldn't catch them.
And then yesterday, Sunday, we found out that it was a cockerel. So, it ended up dying anyway, albeit less painfully than a rat's attempt.
We currently have six dogs; Two Dobermann bitches, Tia and Kay, three Jack Russell bitches, Tippi, Tiffany, and Star, and one Jack Russell dog, Toby. We have one cat, Slinky. Three boy rats, Remus, Bracken and Mog (Pronounced Mug, but short for Mogwai). Two dwarf boy rabbits, Pablo and Luna, and a giant girl rabbit, Kiara, Maria or Donkey, depending on which one of us you ask.
We have Vinny, our Light Sussex cockerel, the sweetest cockerel you could find. Spike, our Buff Pekin cockerel, the most vicious thing you'll ever find. We bought him once, then swapped him back, and then a month later, we re-bought him because he was so vicious, no-one had taken him. He had one green eye and one amber. I would like to say that's how we knew it was him, but I'd be lying. We knew it was him because he attacked mum. Through the wire. We have Harry, our White Silkie male- we got him and his hens from our next door neighbour, Steve.
We have two black pekin hens, both with chicks that aren't theirs. Weirdly though, they both have a silkie chick, and two pekin chicks. Same colours as well. X-) We have a buff-cross-red pekin, a very light brown colour but definitely not buff, who hatched our first and currently only Black silkie chick. He's safe, because even if it's a boy we can keep it because he's a different colour from white.
These aren't the only chickens we own, but I'll update as relevant.
Edit: Alright, from about 3.30 pm we - Mum and I - started to make a chicken run, three-ish feet wide and nine-ish feet long, with a wire roof. We only half completed it because it started to rain.
And then yesterday, Sunday, we found out that it was a cockerel. So, it ended up dying anyway, albeit less painfully than a rat's attempt.
We currently have six dogs; Two Dobermann bitches, Tia and Kay, three Jack Russell bitches, Tippi, Tiffany, and Star, and one Jack Russell dog, Toby. We have one cat, Slinky. Three boy rats, Remus, Bracken and Mog (Pronounced Mug, but short for Mogwai). Two dwarf boy rabbits, Pablo and Luna, and a giant girl rabbit, Kiara, Maria or Donkey, depending on which one of us you ask.
We have Vinny, our Light Sussex cockerel, the sweetest cockerel you could find. Spike, our Buff Pekin cockerel, the most vicious thing you'll ever find. We bought him once, then swapped him back, and then a month later, we re-bought him because he was so vicious, no-one had taken him. He had one green eye and one amber. I would like to say that's how we knew it was him, but I'd be lying. We knew it was him because he attacked mum. Through the wire. We have Harry, our White Silkie male- we got him and his hens from our next door neighbour, Steve.
We have two black pekin hens, both with chicks that aren't theirs. Weirdly though, they both have a silkie chick, and two pekin chicks. Same colours as well. X-) We have a buff-cross-red pekin, a very light brown colour but definitely not buff, who hatched our first and currently only Black silkie chick. He's safe, because even if it's a boy we can keep it because he's a different colour from white.
These aren't the only chickens we own, but I'll update as relevant.
Edit: Alright, from about 3.30 pm we - Mum and I - started to make a chicken run, three-ish feet wide and nine-ish feet long, with a wire roof. We only half completed it because it started to rain.
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