Recent content by Kaitie09

I should, but it looks pretty much the same right now, except the upper broken window was replaced and there are about 30 landscape timbers sitting on the concrete walkout patio. We even replaced the lattice "wall'" so it hides the coop from the driveway. I'll take a new one in 2 months when the...

I just realized I don't have any pictures of the front of the house, all I have is one taken when it was still on the market. For reference, the chicken coop and run are now under the covered deck on the righthand side of the photo.

I'll definitely try the garden fabric first! The deck above is a covered porch and the roof overhangs about a foot, and there's a gutter on the roof. I have about a 16in clearance from the run walls to where rain hits the ground. The only time rain gets in the run is if it's blowing at a really...

That is correct, the coop is the tan lean-to in the right of the photo. The run is the screened in area.

As the title says, we have a coop under our deck. I'm wondering if there are any ideas for keeping the dust from traveling up to the covered deck area. I knew there would be dust, but didn't think about it traveling up 10+ft and then settling on the vinyl siding of the house. Their run is...

Possibly. I noticed that it seemed to be warmest along the two ends. The middle was hard to even feel much heat, even with my hand right on it.

Even with the heating pad only 3 inches off the ground, where if they just stood there, it was touching their backs, I was still finding them stuck up in between the heating pad and 2x4 wire, to the point where I had to help them figure their way out. When I switched it to hardware cloth, they...

Just wanted to share my experience. I'm not sure if I just wasn't doing it right, or if my heating pad is too fluffy, or if my basement was too cold in general, but I was having issues where the chicks were climbing up in between the wire to get closer to the pad, and it didn't seem like the...

The external nesting boxes will be attached to the coop, I was just trying to figure out if the best thing would be to walk into the run to collect them, or be able to collect them outside the run. For the waterer, I really want to try the nipple system. In my past experience, the regular...

Just looked them up and didn't realize that true horizontal ones existed. I thought you were just talking about turning the vertical ones in their sides. Thanks!

Thanks. Living here for the past couple years, the area under that stays dry even during blizzards. There may be some random wet spots from snow blowing onto the deck, but that part of the house faces east and does not get much wind. I'm planning on putting plastic up along the long side of the...

Hello, I was an active user a few years ago. Grew up with 30+ chickens and a setup that could have used improvement. Recently bought a house and am in the process of designing a new coop. 4 hens are arriving in May, and that is really all I want, especially since it is just two of us and will be...

I'm in the process of designing a new coop for 4 hens. The coop will be 5'x3' and I need to have external nest boxes. However, the boxes would have to be attached to the door I need to open to clean the coop (a 2'6" door). So, has anyone ever built external nest boxes that could be removed? The...

Its been a while, but I'm back. Recently moved out of parent's house and now have a small house on 1.25 acres. So of course, new chicken coop! Since its just me and BF, I want to stick with 4-6 hens ( at least for a couple years) and leaning toward the wichita style coop because of the...

I have 2 Nubian/Boers and I built a hay feeder like the one in the first link. The holes are 2x4 so they can't get more out than a mouthful at a time. They still waste a good bit and I'm considering rebuilding it, but with a bucket type system attached such as these: