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    Getting Chickens To Go Back Into Their Coop?

    We clap our hands and rattle a plastic bag of meal worms. They'll do anything for meal worms.
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    Comment by 'Pelican525' in article 'Rustic rescue coop'

    The hole in the run fence is a window so the hens can watch us when we're outside, they love to watch. It's also for our two granddaughters, they love to come over and watch the hens.
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    Ended Official BYC Coop Page Contest #7

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/rustic-rescue-coop
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    Rustic rescue coop

    My wife had a opportunity to rescue 7 hens and a guinea, the only problem was we didn't have a place to house them and there was a dead line when they had to be moved. Well I had some time off and I hadn't built anything in a long time so I decided to build the girls a place to live. The design...
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    post your chicken coop pictures here!

    Here are a few pictures of the coop I built this summer. So far our girls are very happy except they seem to be rebelling from the new wood shutters I just installed getting ready for winter, but I think they will like them when it turns cold.
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    Sleeping in the box

    I just installed some curtains that I made out of a burlap feed sack. We will lower them in the evening B 4 they go to roost and raise them first thing in the morning. I never even thought about them noticing their new shutters.
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    Sleeping in the box

    In the first photo you can see the open window above the nesting boxes. In the third photo you can see their roost on each side. I made sure to make the roost higher than the nesting boxes. I built our coop this summer and with winter coming on I added wood shutters to the windows. There's one...
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    Sleeping in the box

    All of a sudden some of our hens have started roosting in the nesting boxes, What's up with that? I'm thinking about putting up a curtain that I can lower before they go to roost, do you think that will help put them back on the roost?
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    Winter is Coming! Checklists, tips, advice for a newbie

    Here in North Texas all I have to do is add a little extra straw in the coop, close the shutters on the windows and make sure their water doesn't freeze.
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