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    Soliciting for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Yeah. I definitely want to keep it clean. I wonder if it's possible to fashion some type of light weight "tray" that you could slide in and out from under the coop to facilitate cleaning?
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    Soliciting for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    I see you're point about crawling under a 10 x 10 area. I had consider that but thought the benefits to the chickens out weighed the ease of cleaning, etc. I guess if it becomes a problem I could always reduce the area under the coop by putting up partitions.
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    Soliciting for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Here are some pics to show my progress to date. 16' x 20' perimeter with 4x4x16 perimeter blocks. Used pressure treated 4x4's, 2x6 floor joists on 16" centers and 3/4 " PT plywood decking
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    Soliciting for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    I'm raising the coop where the floor will be 24 inches of the ground so that will give the full 16' by 20' run. I thought that the 100 sq ft under the coop would add some shade. plus I plan to add some removable wind breaks around the north and west sides to give them some protection from the wind
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    Soliciting for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Hey BYC Family, I'm in the process of building my first coop and I've seen a lot of really neat ideas sifting through the many posts and pic. It's a little overwhelming with all the information out there, so I thought I would come out and ask everyone for... The Good...must have's that will...
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    ***OKIES in the BYC III ***

    Just Joined the BYC a few days ago and it was recommend that I throw a shout-out to all neighbors. So...Howdy Ya'll. I'm really excited to be here, Just getting started with raising chickens, My first set of hens will be here in May and I have started building their new home. I'm sure I...
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    Newbie from the Sooner State

    Thanks for all the welcomes. I'll be sure to check out the Learning Center.
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    Newbie from the Sooner State

    This was a totally newbie mistake. Did not understand that all post go through a moderator. So I thought that it didn't go through. Lol!
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    Newbie from the Sooner State

    First, I would like to thank BYC and all the users. This has been the best website / forum for all of my research...lots of thoughts and ideas. My mother-in-law has had chickens for several years now and I have always enjoyed them when I came to visit. Now that I'm retired (well at least...
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