Looking to go OFF GRID for anons

Try and get a place as far away from others as you can too. Nothing worse than having a nosey rat fk neighbor! We had a couple of them in the valley and everyone shunned them and they left!

You have to learn to deal with problems like a man instead of calling the cops. Everyone will HATE you for bringing the cops to the very place you went to get away from them. Learn to leave your city ways in the city!

You need to be very good at improvising too. Home depot isn't down the road. You learn to save everything. Lumber scraps are handy for many things. You need to be mechanical and have common sense or you WILL fail.

Also, it's nice to have about 1/3 of the nesting boxes vs the herd, example: 25 original chix, 5 die, leaving 20, and you have 8 boxes, perfect. The chickens tend to pick a favorite box en masse, said simpler, when we get 20 eggs this summer, their will NOT be an egg in every one of the 8 boxes, 1 box might have as many as 5.

It's also a good benefit to get the same breed, no mixing, they fight less, etc. Reds are very docile, grow the biggest and lay some damn big eggs once in a while.

Inside the coup, attempt 3 sq feet per bird. 24 birds, 72 square feet, which is what we have. In the Run, attempt 8 sq feet per bird. We have 216 sq feet. For the 20 that survived, that's almost 11 sq feet per bird, and some birds will stay in the coup, sometimes to lay an egg, other times bc they, like people, just want to get away from the other sqwaking idiots.

You can't have enough perches either. I'm not saying to over do it, but if you make a new perch on the level, they will eventually investigate it, keeps some off the ground as well.

As for the 'roof' of the run, the top portion. We have Giant Owls, Hawks, Buzzards, Crows, the rare Eagle, etc. We went with hardware wire, 2 inch by 3 inch and tied that in with the 3 walls (4th wall is the coup outer wall that the chickens get let out into the run from, I think we used U Nails for the affix on that part.

You can also you a Decent Tensile Strength Rated Fishing Line and CrissCross the top with it. I wouldn't feel comfortable with 4 inch gaps. Coons can climb the 6 foot fencing and dive bomb to the floor for some major carnage. However, we put our chickens in Every Night, and they are watched if we leave during the day.

Last thing I can think of, although there are other tricks of the trade when it comes to water and feed, is to familiarize yourself with the approximately 15 Foods NOT to feed your chickens. They'll eat anything, including each other.

Let me know if you want pics for ideas. Our coup cost 2K in material cost and labor a few years ago, would be a lot more for the treated now. Oh, and for the outside run fencing, I went with treated star bit screws and washers that I pinned the wire to the wood with. I just had a ridiculous amount of washers (left behind by previous owner) STILL in my Tool Trays from a house I had in the mid 90's.

As far as my credentials, I grew up in rural MI in the early to mid 70s with 75 Meat Birds. They were not so fun.

Last Edited by ranjmaz on 03/02/2023 11:58 PM

Good info thanks!

Never use pex pipe! Use poly with compression fittings! It is way easier to work with and you can undo the fittings and re use them. I had to teach the "master plumber" this and he's so stupid he couldn't figure out why my repair worked and his didn't lol.

Log homes take forever to heat and aren't that great. They look cool but not that efficient. You will spend at least 1 day to heat a log home then it's time to go back lol.

Every one of the peeps I know that did pex regret it. ALL of them! Don't let pextards convince you otherwise. Read what I said and think about it.

Now the snow is letting up I think I will rehab the chicken coop. I saw a flock of 7 for 150 bux. We used to have 4 hens and would get 3-5 eggs a day. At 6 bux a dozen it should be worth it.

Anyone know how much chicken poo to put in soil without overdoing it?

I’ve been mixing one heaping shovel full of Chicken crap to a wheel-barrow
Full of soil.
Plants seem to love that amount.

Cool, thanks! I know if you use too much it burns your plants.

Uhm, chix were $3 a couple of years ago at TSC, and $5 this year, at $21 each for fulls, I'd take a hard pass.

You were getting MORE than 1 egg in 1 day from a Hen? For Realz?

That was years back, it seems right. Is it ok to inbreed chickens? I want to get some but will I need to change out roosters or?

that's cool. i have never been on grid. it did not exist when i was born. they rolled it out bit by bit and we watched all the zombies fall into the pit one by one.

cool. maybe you can build a chicken castle. my neighbor's built one. it is awesome. they painted the chicken names on plaques in front of the castle too. super lux.

yes you are always proving how "SANE" you are with your redundant idiotic posts here. notice how you project all your irrationality onto others without even thinking. how you post "happy pics" of yourself smiling and laughing because in reality you don't even know how to do that...hence the endless virtue signaling and self confirmations that you did the right thing by signing up for a lifetime of injections or a shorter lifespan that you remain in denial of while "selling others" on YOUR own choice lol it's obvious to all of us here you are only trying to convince yourself and in reality, are crying on the inside. but go on. keep lashing out at everyone for your own failings. proceed.

it's like goldilocks

you're going to be in a world of hurt unless youre amish


you probably actually want to be near a military installation because they will get supplied

Learning to reload is a great skill. Also collecting hand tools from yard sales. Have spare everything. Lot's of rope too. The old Ragnar Benson books are good.

Learn to ammend your soil correctly. Plants hate bad dirt/clay.

And chickens are COOL!

Just get a mellow breed. You can search them, very interesting the varieties!

Also get a GOOD chainsaw! I like stihl personally.

And pri-g stabilizer for fuel.

Really? In other countries providing comfort with supplies you order for the suffering families?

Huh?

Whatever that means. I am forced to pay for "families of irresponsible a-holes) with my taxes. Do you think I will pay more or give away my precious supplies to these same idiots? Get sterilized and do the world a favor and get those tax bums to do the same. Thank you.