Comments on: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/ No hormones. No antibiotics. No subsidies. Just real food for real people. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Jim Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:06:09 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/#comment-182 Steve, Thank you for the information. I checked with Tim at Natures Harmony farm and he says he uses lag bolts 8" long and drills through the bottom board and uses them as an axel and leaves them on the pens. I have a tremendous problem with predators and have an electric wire running along the bottom of my pen so not sure how to keep the wheels from interferring w the current. My pen is 8x8 and built originally for broiler chickens but I have the few laying hens I have left in there now.. I do have the poultry netting that I have not put up yet so will probably use it for the hens and move broilers to pen .. I just received them for Hoover Hatchery . Got 25 CornishX pullets just to see if we are going to like raising them with all the mixed reviews... The total cost shipping and all was $39.00 which included a $5.00 small order fee... The pullets themeselves were only .89 a piece! Thanks for sharing the info on your pen.. My next one will be just like that ! Jim Steve,

Thank you for the information. I checked with Tim at Natures Harmony farm and he says he uses lag bolts 8″ long and drills through the bottom board and uses them as an axel and leaves them on the pens.

I have a tremendous problem with predators and have an electric wire running along the bottom of my pen so not sure how to keep the wheels from interferring w the current.

My pen is 8×8 and built originally for broiler chickens but I have the few laying hens I have left in there now.. I do have the poultry netting that I have not put up yet so will probably use it for the hens and move broilers to pen .. I just received them for Hoover Hatchery . Got 25 CornishX pullets just to see if we are going to like raising them with all the mixed reviews… The total cost shipping and all was $39.00 which included a $5.00 small order fee… The pullets themeselves were only .89 a piece!

Thanks for sharing the info on your pen.. My next one will be just like that !

Jim

]]> By: Steven http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/comment-page-1/#comment-179 Steven Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:57:10 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/#comment-179 I'm guessing that you're talking about the chicken tractor with the single cattle panel cut in half and used on the front and rear of the hoop and connected with boards to stiffen it up. ??? We have put on the chicken wire, 4' of wire all the way around, except for the door in the front, and then we covered the center on top where there is no panel. Then we built a simple door with wood and chicken wire and we put our pullets in it. We have 50 Plymouth Barred Rocks in it now and will eventually put our other 13 layers in with them. We've yet to add wheels of any sort but are thinking about how to do that so that we can move it every day. We'll be building a little 10' x 10' x 2' pen that will be just like Joel Salatin's (but his are 12' x 12'). In this we are going to raise pastured broilers, probably from S & G Poultry. They sell chicks specifically for pasturing / meat. Much like the French Label Rouge. thanks for the comment! I’m guessing that you’re talking about the chicken tractor with the single cattle panel cut in half and used on the front and rear of the hoop and connected with boards to stiffen it up. ???
We have put on the chicken wire, 4′ of wire all the way around, except for the door in the front, and then we covered the center on top where there is no panel. Then we built a simple door with wood and chicken wire and we put our pullets in it. We have 50 Plymouth Barred Rocks in it now and will eventually put our other 13 layers in with them.
We’ve yet to add wheels of any sort but are thinking about how to do that so that we can move it every day.

We’ll be building a little 10′ x 10′ x 2′ pen that will be just like Joel Salatin’s (but his are 12′ x 12′). In this we are going to raise pastured broilers, probably from S & G Poultry. They sell chicks specifically for pasturing / meat. Much like the French Label Rouge.

thanks for the comment!

]]> By: pricerfarm http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/comment-page-1/#comment-178 pricerfarm Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:10:30 +0000 http://www.franciscanfamilyfarms.com/2009/03/22/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-22/#comment-178 What type birds are you putting in your chicken tractor? I like the way you save on cattle panels with that design.. Could you tell me how it is working for you What type birds are you putting in your chicken tractor? I like the way you save on cattle panels with that design..

Could you tell me how it is working for you

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