new coop

So I just moved my six 1/2 week old chicks into their coop which has one of those bucket waterers with the chicken nipples on it. They’re still getting used to the coop and they haven’t gone near their food or the water yet. It’s a new waterer for them. I tried poking the nipples to show them...

I have 2 flocks. 6x 1 year old easter egger hens In a small coop and enclosure and 14x 3 month old mixed chicks (7 hens,7 roosters I hatched in an incubator from someone’s backyard eggs) the 14 are in a big coop and bigger enclosure. I want to move the other 6 into the big coop with them. They...

Hi! I’m a returning member. We just built the new coop at our new house and got 6 chicks. They are 3 Auracanas, and 3 Buff Orpington. I’d say they are about 3 weeks old. we live in San Diego, California in an unincorporated area and we have a pet potbelly pig and 3 dogs. The chicks have a...

Hi all. I recently moved to a house with very little grass, but a good amount of concrete. I know that chickens require dirt, or something to dig in, so I was wondering if it's possible to build foundations over the concrete, fill it with dirt, and then build a coop over it. Meaning roughly 7...

This is our first flock... this is our custom, DIY garage coop! I will be working on the run this coming weekend. Here's a YouTube link for the full tour of the coop: I will attach some photos too... my boys enjoyed picking a bunch of dandelions and presenting the girls with a big salad!

Just finished our urban coop for our 8 hens. Designed by my husband. Includes padlocks on the run door, nesting boxes and large door on the coop (for cleaning it out). There are 2 exterior nesting boxes. The smaller door for the hens to enter and exit their coop remains open for now - we buried...

I bought a small......er coop for my secondary flock that’s starting to accumulate. I had originally planned on building an addition onto the main coop but our lack of time and resources caught me off guard so here we are :idunno With buying this used coop there’s some alterations needing done...

Hi everyone This is my first post in the forum after being able to find plenty of advice on this forum over the past 2 years since owning chickens. When I first purchased my hens, I had a simple coop where as the hens walked in, they effectively walked onto the perches which were just above...

We have just finished our first chicken coop. I will be getting 5 hens that are approximately 2 yrs old this weekend and I currently have 15 chicks growing bigger each day. I am open to any advice I need to know. TIA

My wife and I are very new to all of this and would like some guidance with introducing our chickens to their new home. We picked up 5 hens (3 barred rock, 2 orpington, 5 months old) yesterday and transitioned them into their new coop. The coop has a run area and a ladder/ramp that leads to...

OK... I know, from reading through forums, no reason to hold onto a naughty rooster. My plymouth rock boy is only roo with 11 hens. They are so torn up, it's ridiculous. I finally caught him the other day actually standing on one hen and pecking at her head. JERK! He goes round with me every...

Hi! We have some 7 week old Wyandotte chicks that we felt were getting too big for the brooder. So we moved them into their new coop! Kept them inside for 2 days so that they get to know their new "home" and just let them out today. Our existing flock and roosters seem to be integrating with...

Sorry, we never posted pictures of our coop when we first built it 4 years ago.

Brand new coop. Purchased at Petsmart for $225. asking $150. fully assemble by my husband. Has ventilation for cross breeze, roosting bars, pull out clean out pan from under roosting bars, two nesting boxes with lock to keep out those nasty raccoons and opossum, attached coop run with opening to...

Good morning everyone! Thanks for the add. I am soon to be a brand new chicken mum. My fiancée and I live in an urban area in Greater Victoria on Vancouver island, BC, Canada. We are going to be setting up our back yard with a coop and large pen this spring. We want our hens to have access...

Hi, I’ve been scouring the forums, but still unsure. The property we purchased end of summer came with 11 hens and a rooster. The previous owners had a new flock they had hatched and since these were 2ish years olds, they offered them to us. The coop they are in isn’t the greatest. One wall is...

I just wanted to share with everyone my current setup. I have 13 hens and 1 beautiful roo. I am in Central VA. I just completed a new coop (minus painting) that attaches to my old one for additional space for the girls. Most days they free range in the yard and are locked up at night...

We currently have a small flock of 7 free range chickens who are very much in a routine of exiting their coop when the sun rises, foraging all day, and returning to their coop for night. We are now in the process of renovating our garage into a new, larger, more weather- and predator-proof coop...

Hi there everyone, I know similar threads have been started here about the same subject, but I'm a very new backyard chicken enthusiast so any help would be much appreciated! I went out and got four chickens from a reputable breeder on the weekend just passed, all wormed and vaccinated. Have...

As I stated in our introduction to the group, we are brand new newbies at this chicken raising thing!! Lol So, we need some help with flock integration!! We have two flocks that we are wanting to integrate into one extra large coop. Currently our “main” flock of 5 hens, which consists of 1 Black...