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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2012, 09:00:21 AM »
Soooo, you're raising chicklids?

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2012, 11:34:40 AM »
Soooo, you're raising chicklids?

LMAO!!  That's great.

When I worked at Petland, years ago,  the chick lid people drove me crazy

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2012, 11:51:39 AM »
Just came across this....
 

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2012, 11:01:39 PM »
Way cool Ron.  I have never raised meat birds but would love to try.  I have eggs an the incubator now.  Barred Rocks. 
Ski I could hook you up with six layers and roo.
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #19 on: May 20, 2012, 01:26:35 PM »
Soooo, you're raising chicklids?

LMAO!!  That's great.
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Way cool Ron.  I have never raised meat birds but would love to try.  I have eggs an the incubator now.  Barred Rocks. 
Very nice - I've always liked barred rocks. When I was in high school I kept a mixed flock, I had a pair of barred rocks. Their temperament made them really nice to keep.
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2012, 07:27:35 AM »
A quick follow-up for anyone interested (I've seen a couple of names from here on chicken forums as well interestingly enough)...

Spent almost all of Memorial day weekend putting this together:


And then last weekend I finally got the chickens out of the tank! The tank worked decently for the purpose initially, but they grow really fast and within 2 weeks were starting to make me concerned that they could almost jump/flutter out of it. Keeping them content with food and constant fresh water, they never did make the journey over the glass, but next time I think I'll be making a bigger brooder area rather than take the tank route again.



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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2012, 08:00:50 AM »
Haha, did you have them stuffed in the 55 at that size?
Yes, pun intended. Even though they're not turkeys

That's a real nice looking coop, great job.
One of those would've came in handy when my kids were younger,lol

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2012, 09:17:09 AM »
Ron,  That dog of yours always seems to do an excellent job supervising your projects.
I used to be a people person... but people ruined that for me.

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2012, 09:35:50 AM »
Haha, did you have them stuffed in the 55 at that size?
Yes, pun intended. Even though they're not turkeys
Lol. Yeah, things were getting quite packed in the tank and I was happy to get them out. They filled up ~65% of the footprint by the time I moved them out. I would have done it sooner, but I kept waiting on their adult feathers to fill in better since we went from 80F nighttime temperatures back down to 42-48F nighttime temps around that time.
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That's a real nice looking coop, great job.
One of those would've came in handy when my kids were younger,lol
Thanks. I like how almost everything turned out, except for the wheel mechanism. I kept testing it as I was building it, making sure the wheel setup could handle the weight. Once I finally got the roof on, it was time to move it out towards the field area instead of right by the building. I went about 6' and the wheels splayed in opposite directions and have since only gotten worse. I'm not happy with it, but to make due at the time I simply pulled it on the ground with a tractor. Now I'm moving it daily to fresh grass/clover using pipes slid underneath to roll it. It's not as nice as the wheels should have been, but it's working out and I can pull it by hand. The wheels are still helpful to leverage it up when sliding the pipes in and out.
Ron,  That dog of yours always seems to do an excellent job supervising your projects.
Yep, she's always around and trying to help out. :)
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2012, 07:16:22 AM »
Sure looks good.. ;D ;D
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2012, 01:35:37 PM »
Nice coop Ron, I like that you built a chicken tractor.  I'm on BYC.
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2012, 05:37:16 PM »
Thanks guys.

Mighties_keeper - I haven't joined, but I have been lurking heavily on BYC for the last 5-6. I stumbled across some of your posts from ~2009 IIRC. I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for the tractor in the avatar.
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #27 on: June 09, 2012, 06:34:07 PM »
What kind of meat birds are they?
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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #28 on: June 10, 2012, 12:49:11 AM »
What kind of meat birds are they?
McChickens???  :P

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Re: New Tank Setup - New Direction
« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2012, 06:17:49 AM »
What kind of meat birds are they?
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