Hey.... Lets keep Chickens..!

RebekahR

I should imagine so. Wouldn't put any more than that in me self though.

Now what I REALLY want but can't find anywhere is ... A plastic wood immitation hen house!!!!!

Anyone ever seen one ... anywhere? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease preeeeeeeeetty pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

steady__eddie

"Now what I REALLY want but can't find anywhere is ... A plastic wood immitation hen house!!!!!"

Would this be to house plastic wood imitation hens ?

Seriously though, I haven't seen anywhere but have you considered making one ? A couple of weeks ago I was finally nagged into replacing what was left of the crumbling rendering over our crumbling bay windpw. I used mahoghany UPVC cladding and it worked out at about 23 quid (inc. vat) for a 5 metre length 1 foot wide.
It cuts with a woodsaw, clips together along the edges and could be nailed onto a wooden frame. Obviously the number of lengths required would be dependant upon the size and style of your design.

RebekahR

Now I am just a woman ... lol. But I shall run it past the husband and see what he thinks!

Ah ... plastic hens! No mess!! ;-)

champys

Oh no! Today the chickens discovered the ripening tomatoes...... we have had to put an emergency fence around them (the tomatoes, not the chickens) with some netting I found in the barn - not sure how well it will hold.

As for the plastic hen house - why not give it a try? My DH has been looking into plastic beehives lately, and has already bought several plastic beehive floors........ it seems a bit of a trend at the moment. That said, it's not necessarily cheap, so the question is will the investment really pay off in diminished maintenance in the long run?

RebekahR

I have seen something similar http://www.chicubes.co.uk/Chicken/Bird-Houses/Wooden-Chicube-Chicken-Houses/Chicubes-39-Medium-Wooden-Chicken-House-with-Pitched-Roof/prod_39.html - So might go with a nice hen house I like that is wooden and then pvc the inside for easy cleaning and keeping the mites at bay!

storm35

Hope someone can help me, i have a duck about 2 weeks old, chick 2 week old and another chick week old, she/he is tiny, the duck keeps pecking her bum and it beginning to look red and sore, apart from vaseline what can i do?
Thanks

RebekahR

Ok I have another stupid question! Can you keep chickens of different varieties together or should you always have at least 2 of 1 variety. Eg: 4 all different. Is that ok?

ljonski

Hope someone can help me, i have a duck about 2 weeks old, chick 2 week old and another chick week old, she/he is tiny, the duck keeps pecking her bum and it beginning to look red and sore, apart from vaseline what can i do?
Thanks

try to keep them separate

Bunny82

storm35 wrote: »

Hope someone can help me, i have a duck about 2 weeks old, chick 2 week old and another chick week old, she/he is tiny, the duck keeps pecking her bum and it beginning to look red and sore, apart from vaseline what can i do?
Thanks

First off, can you separate them for a while? If not try Johnson's anti-peck spray. Violet spray is another option as it disguises the redness associated with pecking (it's the redness of irritated skin which makes chickens and ducks peck).

RebekahR wrote:

Ok I have another stupid question! Can you keep chickens of different varieties together or should you always have at least 2 of 1 variety. Eg: 4 all different. Is that ok?

You certainly can. I have two gold stars and a black rock happily living together. They only thing I would be wary with is having large fowl and bantams together as the bigger birds usually bully the smaller ones.

storm35

Thanks guys, i have seperated her, i put in the 2 chicks, older chick started pecking her bum, so she is now on her own, with a woolly fluffy thing to sleep on, and is eating her food and drinking, thank you.