Bee's Guest House

[Beekissed]

Went to visit the boys last night at their new rented cottage that is along the river . It is a new construction and very cute....wood laminate flooring, big windows facing the river, a deck overlooking the river and french doors opening out onto the deck.

They are so proud of finding this place and the landlord is a nice fella. He wants a few of my chickens and wants to build a small coop!

This place is fully~and tastefully~ furnished and all utilities paid except electric...and cheaper than the roach ranch they were renting. What a lovely find and so peaceful and pretty. I wouldn't mind living in it myself...

The best part is that it's a mere mile and a half to Joel's work and only a couple of miles to his and Jon's college. I'm tickled for them and hope it all goes well.

Chocolate Jake, aka Chocolate Thunda, is adapting to single life but has moved his bed to the sheep barn and often carries a scrap of wool around in his mouth....I think he misses his sheep and probably wonders why all the animals are slowly disappearing.

Nice to visit the guesthouse now and again and update. We are supposed to get hit with another major snow storm this week....I'm ready for spring now.

 

[Farmfresh]

Great news about the boys! I am really glad that they have decided to room together and help each other out. It will sure make things easier and safer for both of them. Also glad to hear that they can keep a few hens now. That should make things much more homey for them.

 

[Beekissed]

Well....I'm sure the boys have no plans to keep chickens for this landlord. Heck, they barely wanted to help keep mine!

But...since the man doesn't live close and he wants to keep them there, the boys may work out something in regards to the rent for keeping watch over them.

I really think this guy has no idea of what it takes to keep chickens and like so many others, he thinks it would be a cool idea to have 4 hens in a small coop and run to have fresh eggs. He doesn't seem to know anything about chickens at all and doesn't seem to have a clue about the details like feed, water, predators, space per bird, health maintenance of the flock.

It always is a cause for dismay when I read the posts on BYC from people who thought it was a "cute idea" to have some pet chickens in their backyard....and never researched or planned the venture. Such posts always seem to have titles asking for "help!!!" when predators zoom in, a chicken needs to be culled for some reason, when birds get sick.

Do they do everything in their lives on this kind of impulse? No wonder everyone seems to be running around like chickens with their heads cut off! <pun intended>

I'll have to sit Mr. Landlord down and inform him of potential problems with being an absentee owner of the most delectible prey in the neighborhood. I'd hate to think of homing my good birds with someone who hasn't a plan for good husbandry.

 

[Denim Deb]

Bee, I never thought much about all of that when I got chickens. RU had a few hens, but no roos. Someone gave me a dozen eggs, and we stuck them under a broody hen. 3 weeks later, I became a chicken owner. It wasn't until last year that I really started to learn more about keeping them, and I know I'll probably never know everything.

But, my birds are healthy in spite of everything, and I've gotten 3 eggs recently, so I MUST be doing something right!

 

[BarredBuff]

Hello Miz Bee!

Im glad ya boys are doing good!!

 

[savingdogs]

I'm one of those people who researches everything online first. That is how I found this place!

 

[kcsunshine]

I researched BYC and they all scared me to death. Every time I would read something I would run and check to make sure my chickens didn't have whatever it was. DH said they're just chickens - get off that computer and enjoy them.

I still go there, I love reading about all the different coops, but I just let most of it slide right on by now.

 

[Farmfresh]

Maybe you need to hook "Mr. Landlord" up with my website! Sounds like a City Biddy coop could be exactly what he needs!

 

[Beekissed]

He's his own carpenter and is quite proficient in building, as he built this cute cottage the boys are renting. He will likely build his own...but if he doesn't wish to, I will definitely direct him to your site!

DD, chickens are remarkably easy to keep and it isn't rocket science to figure it out, so I guess that is why I get mildly annoyed to see all those threads on BYC where they got some technical nutrition ratios out of a book or have a pharmacy lined up in their home to treat every crooked fecal matter that falls to their pristine coop floors!

Scares normal folk half to death when they see all those diseases, cures, injuries, egg bound this or that, compacted crops, crippled legs, etc. If you are doing it right you mostly will never have any of these happenings and if you do, somewhere along the line you've gotten some bad advice from a book or magazine or you did no research at all and threw some birds in a tiny coop and started feeding them medication and processed feeds.

But the ones that really amaze me are the folks that thought their chickens would live forever and never planned on having to kill one for any reason. They are lost when that comes around. The time to think of those things are definitely before it happens.

 

[BarredBuff]

BYC gets on my nerves most days of the week from 6 to 12. Its all a saga. Especially those whod profess 16% layer feed is the only way to feed em. OR the ones that have em because they are cute.