Ro, It's easier to buy a cross cut shredder, free boxes from the grocery, and use an oven rack for a cover. A slit with a knife on the side of the box will give you a place to hang the feed and water cups. You can add shredded paper as needed. About day 5 take the dishes out, use a knife to cut the corners to the shredded paper bedding, fold over the sides, slide a garbage over it, take it out to the garden or compost heap to make great mulch. It's quick, easy, and cheap. I get boxes ahead, put shredded paper in them, stack them in the corner of the mudroom. It's easy to keep my mud room chickens clean this way. If you put a garbage bag under the bedding, you can grab the corners of the bag every other day, dump the bedding, put the bag down and put more in more shredded paper. Sounds like a lot of work but it's not, is quick, and it's easier than cleaning a cage.
Cathryn
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From: Ro <rosewood513@comcast.net>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Do any of you let your hens roost outside in the trees?/Cathryn
Wow that is a lot of work. But if it is only one, for me, it would be worth it. I don't want one to be too lonely.
I've been looking at videos of diaper use etc. to get an idea of what it entails, I will not be for along time I hope.
Thanks for your help.
14 years is a long time, mine are about 6 now, that explains why they are still laying so much.
I got one that lays the biggest eggs I ever saw.
Thanks
Ro
From: CathrynTherese Fitch Walden
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:03 PM
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Do any of you let your hens roost outside in the trees?/Cathryn
Ro, My 14 yr old is a rooster. My old red silkie hen who made it to 13 laid 2-4 eggs a week. The old barred rocks laid 2-3 gigantic, jumbo eggs a week. Sometimes more. When you are not home, your chickens are in a cage in the house. When you are home and awake, your chicken wears her/his diaper. The diaper pouches are big enough to lay an egg in. It will be laid in their droppings if they have the diaper on when they lay it. You'll change the bag in the diaper about every hour, hour and a half. Birds defecate about every 20 min. in an average. It sounds like more bother than it is. Because chickens are messy with their feed you will want to get a few binder clips to put cardboard on the outside of the cage where their food and water dishes are.
Cathryn
I've been looking at videos of diaper use etc. to get an idea of what it entails, I will not be for along time I hope.
Thanks for your help.
14 years is a long time, mine are about 6 now, that explains why they are still laying so much.
I got one that lays the biggest eggs I ever saw.
Thanks
Ro
From: CathrynTherese Fitch Walden
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:03 PM
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Do any of you let your hens roost outside in the trees?/Cathryn
Ro, My 14 yr old is a rooster. My old red silkie hen who made it to 13 laid 2-4 eggs a week. The old barred rocks laid 2-3 gigantic, jumbo eggs a week. Sometimes more. When you are not home, your chickens are in a cage in the house. When you are home and awake, your chicken wears her/his diaper. The diaper pouches are big enough to lay an egg in. It will be laid in their droppings if they have the diaper on when they lay it. You'll change the bag in the diaper about every hour, hour and a half. Birds defecate about every 20 min. in an average. It sounds like more bother than it is. Because chickens are messy with their feed you will want to get a few binder clips to put cardboard on the outside of the cage where their food and water dishes are.
Cathryn
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