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2/14/12 at 1:12pm

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Carports can be bought installed for as little as $595. That includes professional installation.

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2/15/12 at 4:35pm

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Love the setup. Still deciding on ours, hubby wants to go the carport installed set up way too :)

Loving wife to a crazy hubby and mother of 3 insane kiddos, 2 d'uccles (rip Iris and twin), 2 white rocks, a barred rock, an australorp, 2 nigerian dwarf goat babies, a pygmy goat, an angora rabbit, an american eskimo spitz and a lhasa apso/boston terrier and some fish.

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4/8/12 at 12:22am

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4/6/2012 The process is slow but we have added runs to the first 2 pens. And completed the first nest box. Hopefully next month I can add the next 2 pens. Once the 4 pens are completed on this side I will install the metal roof.

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4/8/12 at 12:28am

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your pens construction puts mine to shame. Great work ya'll have done.

Father of 1 2yr old daughter, 1 beagle/basset hound, 1 pit bull/basset mix, 1 mutt chicken, and 2 dominique pullets, 2 rir pullets

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4/12/12 at 5:29am

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very nice!

Loving wife to a crazy hubby and mother of 3 insane kiddos, 2 d'uccles (rip Iris and twin), 2 white rocks, a barred rock, an australorp, 2 nigerian dwarf goat babies, a pygmy goat, an angora rabbit, an american eskimo spitz and a lhasa apso/boston terrier and some fish.

Loving wife to a crazy hubby and mother of 3 insane kiddos, 2 d'uccles (rip Iris and twin), 2 white rocks, a barred rock, an australorp, 2 nigerian dwarf goat babies, a pygmy goat, an angora rabbit, an american eskimo spitz and a lhasa apso/boston terrier and some fish.

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4/12/12 at 7:10am

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Hi from Ga. Thanks for the comments over the next 3 to 4 months we hope to have this coop finished. It will be 8 pens in total.

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4/17/12 at 1:45pm

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Today 4/17 We decide to make a little detour. We built the turkey's a new run

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

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4/26/12 at 9:01am

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4/26/2012 Well we started are third pen on the new coop will have the first half ready tomorrow for some birds.

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

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4/27/12 at 9:03am

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4/27 Completed the third pen today. We will add the run to it next week. Moved some barred rock pullets into it .

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

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Hi from Ga. Today 5/18/2012 we completed 2 more pens and put roofs on the existing pens. So far we have completed 5 pens and 4 runs. Next week we will start on some of the nest boxes and watering systems.

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

Lemon Cuckoo Orpington , Chocolate Orpington Bantams, Black Bantam Orpingtons, Blue Bantam Orpingtons, Jubilee Orpingtons,Cuckoo Orpington Bantams, Cream Legbars, Isbars, Blue and Black LF Cochins, Gold Laced Cochins, Silver Laced Cochins, Barred Plymouth Rock, Auburn Java's, Merriam Wild Turkey, and Royal Palm Turkeys. UOC member NPIP Ga. 1211

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