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Im thinking that way, I lost my best birds, but even thogh she is trouble, I retained a great good sized egg layer,

Raccoons, thoght I hadit under control but they keep inventing ways to outsmart me

OK, trying to find a few girls to enhance the flock now, might as well do it all at the same time, the fortress has been reinforced again, but Ive spoken too soon in the past, and i dont have the money for a bank vault LOL anyone have a few hens they want to send my way , Local to...

should i seperate them at night as well

Loss by predetor, I can hear them squaking right now, see how the day goes I feel bad

I lost most of my flock, i am down to to, 1 of them is being mean to the other survivor, pecking and chasing her all over the coop, I need to do ??? get more hens from a similar situation , keep them the way they are, dispatch the problem Hen, and keep a solo hen. dispatch both and...

Chicken experiment over, Just the other day I posted that I had remidied the chicken problem, and this morning I find a carcass, I really thought I had secured the fort, but after looking around for almost a half hour I found where the pred dug in, in a very inconspicuas location. So I am...

yes a new coop, made up of a bunch of old coops lol with a smaller run for the winter, due to space restraints, but over all will be about 16' x 4' with the housing inside that

Im hoping

Im moving the coop to a higher dryer location, im a newbie so Ive learned a lot from here and real life, but diddnt realize how damp an area the birds were, and how much of a hassle it will be once the snow files here in the northeast. I have 3 hens lost 4 another lesson, but remidied and...

only thing I can think of is the bigger house is lower than the smaller hutch, there is a roosting bar and a nesting box that they want nothing to do with, that ould rather pile on each other

Thats the hutch the 7 insist on staying in here is a pic off to the side of the run where i would think they would roost and sleep

ok so here are some pics, dont judge, im a minimalist

yep im new, and ignorant, but that aside, I have 7 hens, in a 10x10 coop, with a small hutch inside the run and an additional 6x4 coop, , the small hutch is 2x3, and instead of roosting, and laying in the made boxes they prefer to huddle at night in the small hutch, only 1 egg in the last...

Ok I have a plan, thanks for whatever reason i just wasnt getting it, but i got it Thanks again put this post to bed.

Ok, I try and wrap my head around 4 sq ft per bird, then see all the coops that are half the size on a gazillion sites, to the point of i dont know what the heck im reading anymore, my gut was saying 4x6 with protruding nesting box, but 2 more ft isnt gonna kill me. Info overload, sorry for...

Coop size, foot print in feet for the actual floor plan of the hen house for 7 Chickens, simple enough right? oh 4 sq ft per bird, well that would be a small barn, I look for coops on sale and they look like they are no bigger than 4x4 cubed (think walls around a standard pallet) I have a...

Great info

I have a decent sized yard and am contemplating some Hens, nothing big nothing fancy, probably a half dozen, but im open to opinions to what the best number and breed would be best, I am in west metro west Mass. I do have open space behind my lot line , so security is gonna be a must, but I...