Tuesday, June 1, 2010

[CHICKENS-101] Re: Camping with chickens

 

Wow! What a trooper you are. Warms my cackles to see someone a bit more crazy than I :) May they bring you years of pleasure and lots of eggs.

Renee
S CA

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Shalonne Halstead <shalonne@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone! Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that the chicken
> camping trip went great! The brooder tote fit perfect into the big deep
> trunk well in the back of the minivan so they had a safe trip there. Once at
> the site, they got a place of honor at our breakfast nook inside the camper
> and stayed there for the duration. Heat lamp was put on as needed and they
> showed no signs of being stressed. They were actually much easier to take
> camping than a dog! Thanks to the people who let me know shavings are okay -
> we had no smell issues at all.
>
> Chicks are now happily housed in the **official** brooder - a very cute
> wooden / hardware cloth crate thing my husband made. It is very big and will
> house them quite comfortably until it is time to move them into the coop. It
> has a plywood bottom, and one solid wall and then 3 walls of hardware cloth.
> The top is hardware cloth with a wood frame door built in. I'll post pics
> when I get a chance :)
>
> I hope everybody had a great Memorial Day weekend!
>

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