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Thanks! I really liked the Mama Heating Pad method but since I didn't have a heating pad it was easier and cheaper to just buy a brooder, and then when the temperatures bottomed out I was able to make a pretty good MHP facsimile with the same brooder. I was just copying as best I could what I...

So, it's been a minute! A LOT has happened, although not much worth "reporting". I got my coop cleaned up and secured, although the corrugated metal walls made installing roosting bars incredibly difficult. I, uh, still haven't put those in. It's on my to-do list though! In early September I...

I will look into those, thank you!

I forgot to mention that I removed the doors, took off the old busted plywood and attached new, sturdier solid wood plywood, and then rehung the door with an extra hinge and new closing hardware. It still needs a little oomph to shut it all the way, but now it doesn't sag or have any gaps, and I...

Pic 1: I started to shovel out the bedding before I remembered I should probably take a "before" picture. Pic 2: My workin getup. The lines it leaves are just lovely, but I enjoy breathing and seeing too much to skip it. Pics 3 & 4: Pre and post sanitization. I couldn't get all the staining off...

Update: Typically I write my posts on a computer and then upload my photos from my phone, but we have officially moved and my computer is still packed away, so I apologize if this isn't as in depth as normal. Thumb typing is not nearly as fast as regular typing, at least for me. I've done a...

Pic 1: A Before picture of the stacked wood and attached plywood on the northern side of the coop. Pic 2: Boards and plywood removed, tree sufficiently trimmed. Pic 3: The interior run has been completely cleared. This also demonstrates the WALL OF WEEDS and how stupidly thick and tall they are...

It finally cooled down, so I was able to go back and tackle another chunk of work. This and the photos are from 2 separate sessions over several days. My parents are in the process of selling their house and moving in with us, so my dad brought over some of his tools, including a drill and a...

Pic 1: A distance shot to show that the entire door is now visible from afar Pic 2: close up of the haircut I gave the tree. It needs more shaved off but it'll do for now. Pic 3: the swatch I ruthlessly hacked from the gate to the far corner. The entrance into the chunnel is about halfway...

I did A Lot of work today. I have zero (0) tools of my own so I asked my dad if he had any clippers. He gave me two sets of handheld pruning shears, I guess not really knowing what I was asking for. (He told me pretty dryly he had power tools like an electric trimmer and weedwhackers when I was...

Measured the coop for realsies today (we had a tape measure instead of our eyeballs and arms) and it's 12x8. Perfectly fine for 10 chickens and a few extra next year. I started working to clear out the interior run but the house is on the top of a hill and so I felt like the sun was sitting...

Luckily for us it's a metal-walled shed. I'm fairly certain they were getting in via the cockeyed, not-fitting right wooden door. Since all of the food in the open container was left behind, they'll be able to stuff themselves to their little hearts' content until I can get in there and muck it...

Update: they took what was left of their flock, but were kind enough to leave the rotting head and skeletonized pelvis of one of their birds in the run, so that's fun. The coop also smells overwhelmingly of mice urine at this point. We close tomorrow so work on fixing the coop starts next week...

That's very nice to say, thank you. Although it's hard to do WORSE at this point. :c

I also wanted to add that since I have a Sneaking Suspicion that the Current Coop Residents are going to still be there come moving day that I reduced my order from 16 chicks to 10. However, if predation keeps up I might not have to worry about space...

Coulda been, but she wasn't very big. If the hens would've seen her that would have been the end of that. I think she was more attracted to the copious amounts of tiny rodents. (Snek was safely relocated to a woodpile on the opposite side of the property. I like having snakes around, as long as...

Update: Went out to the house again to get contractor measurements for some finishes to the basement. When I went to check on the hens (actually just to see if they were even still there) there was a snake in the coop (pretty rat snake) and a dead, mostly-gone carcass of one of the birds. And...

@Cryss @rosemarythyme @3KillerBs Ya'll brought up good points, especially about considering how the "floorplan" of the coop was laid out. I think the coop is a 10x8, so in theory it would be large enough to comfortably fit the number of chickens I plan to have. However, the nesting boxes take...

for my photos <3

Heyo! Old member coming back after several years -- I had a flock of 17 when I lived in Washington after getting out of the military, but still-enlisted Husbando got orders to California and the chickens couldn't come. Now that Lady Navy no longer gets a slice of me OR my man, we've contracted...