Straw Hat Kikos

[marlowmanor]

HAHA You guys didn't think I would do it did you? Well here I am finally doing what I said I would. lol


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This is the side view. It's not done. It has more done on it but I don't have pictures of it yet.

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On the sides (along the "X" parts is where the cattle panels will go to hold the hay in.

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The bottom there is there to catch the hay the are trying to waste. lol

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Smudge is on it. She's trying to get away from the roosters. I am also going to put some PVC pipe on the sides as feed troughs. 2 in 1. : )



Below are pictures of the coop.

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There are about 175 bird in the coop, but they are in the rafters above.

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This is part of the feed storage area of the coop. In the steel tub there is chicken feed, chick feed, and goat feed. Also a toolbox. game bird starter is in the little bucket.

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The cans hold goat feed, chicken feed, chick starter, and scratch grains.

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The bin holds one bale of compressed alfalfa hay. Not going to be using it anymore. To the right is part of a bale of straw. The storage area is mostly empty. Most of the time there are lots more straw, hay, bedding, and feed in there.

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This is what I feed my goats.

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Callie!!

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Moses.

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Caleb. He looks like he has crazy eyes!! Just the camera thought. He's scratching his back. lol

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Alana with her big--- horns!!

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Penedesenca rooster.

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Again.

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Empordanesa rooster.

Yes, I know it is a ton of pictures!! I hope you like them!!

So are the names before the roosters the breeds? If so I will have to look up those breeds. Those are some impressive looking roosters. I see you have cochins too(well at least 1!). Nice hay feeder. I need to get my DH to build one for our goats.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Yes those are the breeds. Very rare too. They lay (not the roosters, of course) very dark eggs. It's also very hard to find them. I'm trying to get some pictures of the hens but the are almost feral chickens so good luck getting close to them. Thanks you about the hay feeder. Hoping to finish it up today. It only have a few more minutes of work left on it.

 

[marlowmanor]

We added some diversity to our small flock this year. We got 10 chicks of a variety of breeds from a local guy. Those include cochins (incuding a frizzle cochin), a polish, a turken, white leghorns (my DHs choice), Ameracuanas, and a mixed one that I believe is an EE/polish cross (that one ended up being a roo but it is pretty neat looking too). Out of my 10 chicks I only ended up with 2 cockerals so I think they will get to stay since we sold our adult roosters a month or so ago. I've got pictures up on my journal of my teenage chicks if you want to see them. We only have 17 chickens (6 adult hens, 10 teenagers, 1 chick we just had hatch from our broody).

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

I saw them. I love leghorns. Some people don't like them at all but I think the're great. I also love the white egg. lol I do love polishs and I like Turkens to eat. lol EE's are good chickens. I also saw your goats.

 

[marlowmanor]

I saw them!! I love leghorns. Some people don't like them at all but I think the're great. I also love the white egg. lol There is a white frizzle cochin here. I can't stand her. I do not like frizzles. I do love polishs and I like Turkens to eat. lol EE's are good chickens!! I also saw your goats. So cute. ; )

Send the white frizzle cochin over here! You can't eat my turken! I was just glad that alot of the unique breeds we got that I really wanted to be hens ended up being hens. DH wanted the leghorns for their white eggs. He won't eat eggs from our chickens though so I have no clue why he wanted them. They are nice looking though. The polish, turken and frizzle were the ones I particularly wanted that DH wasn't huge fans of. I wouldn't mind a couple more polish hens personally. I like their look. My turken is neat looking but I can handle just having one of them too. I should have gotten some pictures of the adult hens too while I was taking pictures. Maybe today or sometime this week I'll do that. One of my RIRs was pecking my toes while I was taking pictures yesterday!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

It's been forever, but I'm back. lol I have had no time this week.

Today I got 25 bales of hay from a neighbor and then went over to another neighbor's house and raked up alot of grass hay that he cut and I will use as hay. There is about 10-12 square bales of hay, if I were to bale them, which I won't. I will just make a hay stack, and besides the goats will eat it up pretty quickly. And then there is another field that he will cut soon and it has about 30 bales of hay in it. So that's really cool. That's about 65-70 bales of hay. I also cleaned out the wasted hay in the Kiko does shelter and moved the stuff in it around for some ventilation.

 

[Roll farms]

I used to have Penedesencas. Very pretty birds.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Yeah those birds are crazy! They are feral birds. They need nothing. Mine aren't very people friendly and they eat almost no food and they live in the woods. You almost never see them. They are very pretty though, when you do see them.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Today all the rest of the hay was raked up and brought over to the house. There is now a huge hay stack out back now. The goats really like it too. It's not the greatest hay for them but it won't hurt them and it does fill their bellies. I am going to be mixing in the good hay with it that way they get what the need. That took up most of the day and tomorrow I am getting some more stuff for the electric fence. That way I can move them all over the place throughout the woods. Oh and Callie got her rabies today. A little late but it won't hurt anything.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Today was pretty cool. I got to go help out a neighbor down the street get some feed for all her animals. She is an older lady so she needed some help. I love going to help her out because I get to see her sheep, goats, and cows! She has two Boer does and a Boer buck, Percy. Percy is a very nice buck. She also has 6 sheep, which btw I get to help sheer and handle tomorrow. Best of all I get to see her dozen Holstein steers!! I got to feed them today too. Tomorrow I get to do some work with the sheep. It's going to be fun. I don't know if I already said this but the hay feeder has been done and the does have been eating up a storm. I fill that thing with hay and they eat it all. I think they are starting to get full now after a few days because they didn't finish it all. Oh and Moses has so much red and black on him now. When he gets bigger he is going to be a beautiful buck.