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My Buff orpington Clementine!

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Well done photos. Chickens are so hard to get a good picture. She looks like such a sweetheart.

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This was written just a few months before I got my first chickens. When I started researching how-to's this site was always the first thing to pop up. Thank you for this site and for all the help it offers. I hope to be able to offer help paying it all forward over time.

My coop page

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Beautiful flock!
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Selecting Good Flock Roosters

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Nicely detailed.

Judys Free Pallet Chicken Coop

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I'm a 68 year old woman and this is exactly what I want to do. Hubby was born with 2 left thumbs. Not a carpenters bone in his body. This article makes me think between the 2 of us we can do it! Bravo!

How Much Room Do Chickens Need?

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Yes thank you for this informative article. I've held to the "magic numbers" once I learned more about raising chickens. I never considered the calculations you propose for larger flocks. It makes so much sense provided someone doesn't stop there and not consider the rest of your explanation of providing room to fly to and from the roost. Again, thank you.

The perch experiment

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We will wait with bated breath for your return. Excellent infprmation. I won't be using pvc!

Nest Boxes; why do we make a sitting hens job so difficult?

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I have only been keeping chickens for 10 months and may try hatching next season. This gives me some good ideas for building my isolation coop. Thank you.
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I would probably build with a bigger run should I do another coop like this.

Featherdust Flock

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Beautiful. Beautiful birds. Beautifully written. Beautiful relationships between bird and bird, bird and human. Beautiful heart of Fud Lady that sees the real personalities (chickenalities?) of each individual bird. I found my heart swelling with love for each one, then breaking at the losses the world must endure. Bravo Fud Lady. Bravo Beautiful Chickens.
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foldable wire dog crates - a good tool for every chickeneer

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I've used a crate for broody breaking and for young pullet introductions. This has given me ideas to improve on that. Well done!
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The "Mod" Coop

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Detailed details abound here! No skills? Girl you Def gots skills! :bow:bow:bow
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Oh, my skills sort of improved over the course of those long months of trial and error building. Maybe a little overkill on the details... but I definitely learned a lot! Thank you for the great review!

Recycled Parts Make A Coop

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Recycling is the way to go. Great job!

Runs vs Pens - and what is possibly the BEST way to keep a flock.....

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What a fantastic idea! Wish I'd seen this before I built my area.

Development of a Chicken Embryo Day by Day

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Finally a clear description of the process. Thank you.

My first attempt Making Anything (coop)

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So pretty, love the clear roof. Would have enjoyed seeing more of the inside. .
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Creating my own little "Cluckingham Palace"

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No info on the build (understandably) but here its all about details, details, details. I love how you made safty and health details look beautiful.
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Thanks! I would have included the farmer who custom built the coop for me, but... he did a rather shabby job and it took my husband a lot of time & $ to fix/repair the errors in the coop, which is why I kinda omitted the builder's info. I won't plug his business of building coops - but also, don't want to hurt his reputation... so I left that info out as I can't recommend him. For example, I had nails and super long screws that had no reason to even BE there... sticking out in the nesting boxes... & screws sticking out under the coop where the girls would go to be in shade... they could have cut themselves, and I'm talking DOZENS of nails & screws... randomly piercing out all over. It was bizarre. Their safety is important to me. The nesting boxes were all various sizes... not evenly spaced...and the walls between the nests were loose, wiggly and crooked... which my husband fixed as well. The metal tray that slides out for 'easy cleaning' under the roosts, in the coop... is 5" too short so I have an area of 5" that i can't reach to clean, which we still have to fix. I would NEVER recommend that builder to anyone. In retrospect, I wish I'd gone to Horizon Structures in Amish Country.
But I honestly didn't realize when I posted the page about my coop... that it was suppose to be something I built myself from scratch. I'm a musician... not a builder... haha. So that wasn't going to happen! The details on safety, convenience and herbal supplements in the chicken's herb garden was my contribution to the coop... so I just talked about that.

Baymen Moes Coop De Bill

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Well written, photos are very helpful in understanding the discriptions. Predator prevention seems perfect and lovely to look at with the stones. I'm very impressed.

Egg Song Music Factory

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Love the game reference.

TwinsLoveChicks' Small Red Coop

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Love the coop. I understand you wrote this 6 years after building it so giving building details is difficult. Hope you get full report for the large one you plan builsing. Soinds great.
Beautiful! Needs pics and lots of details! Wish i could rate it higher.
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