Re: Chicken Coop Design

by HawkTheSlayer Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:55 pm

If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

by vege57 Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:16 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management, you could put a solar panel on top with a battery and motor and move it from the house with your cell phone Chicken Coop Design - Page 2 2343565045

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:20 am

vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management

I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

by vege57 Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:23 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management
I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

Whats a pooda , You can run them over a paddock that you have had some stock in ,they will scratch up the pooda and spread it around lol

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:25 am

He had some heavy gauge wire cause the coons would eat through the wire.
He also had some fold down grating on the outside.

After he moved, he would let the grating down on the ground. It surrounded the entire pen and extended out about 2 feet.

That way the foxes and kiyotes couldn't dig their way in.

by vege57 Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:27 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:He had some heavy gauge wire cause the coons would eat through the wire.
He also had some food down grating on the outside.

After he moved, he would let the grating down on the ground. It surrounded the entire pen and extended out about 2 feet.

That way the foxes and kiyotes couldn't dig their way in.

We dont have any crazy critters in NZ, The odd ferret , But have only ever seen 1,

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:28 am

vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management
I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

Whats a pooda , You can run them over a paddock that you have had some stock in ,they will scratch up the pooda and spread it around lol

A podnuh is your mate/ friend. Lolol.

I guess it's Bostonian for partner.

Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.

by vege57 Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:33 am

HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management
I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

Whats a pooda , You can run them over a paddock that you have had some stock in ,they will scratch up the pooda and spread it around lol

A podnuh is your mate/ friend. Lolol.

I guess it's Bostonian for partner.

Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.

""Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.""

Was at bowls today and a big fat old tart dopped a nasty fot up wind from me, just about scorched my farken eyebrows Chicken Coop Design - Page 2 2415383593

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:33 am

vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:He had some heavy gauge wire cause the coons would eat through the wire.
He also had some food down grating on the outside.

After he moved, he would let the grating down on the ground. It surrounded the entire pen and extended out about 2 feet.

That way the foxes and kiyotes couldn't dig their way in.

We dont have any crazy critters in NZ, The odd ferret , But have only ever seen 1,

We got otters, minks, skunks.
Everything eats chickens or eggs. Snoicks( snakes) too.

by HawkTheSlayer Tue Oct 24, 2023 2:36 am

vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:
vege57 wrote:
HawkTheSlayer wrote:If you have the acreage, the rolling chicken pen with laying boxes is by far the best set up. Little need for supplemental feed like laying pellets or scratch feed.

And good fertilizer too.

It is a good system , you dont let them over graze, just a little more work than a fixed pen , but better management
I had a podnuh who had 2 of them . About 20 chickens in each.
He'd leave it in the field till they ate all the bugs, grass, and dug up the worms. Lol.
When he moved it the ground was bare.

Whats a pooda , You can run them over a paddock that you have had some stock in ,they will scratch up the pooda and spread it around lol

A podnuh is your mate/ friend. Lolol.

I guess it's Bostonian for partner.

Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.

""Kinda like a fart here is a fot.lol.""

Was at bowls today and a big fat old tart dopped a nasty fot up wind from me, just about scorched my farken eyebrows

Do y'all have Wal-Mart's over there? Coulda been the same one that blew my cap off down the Vienna sausage aisle. They might have transferred her.

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