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    What features would you include in your dream-coop design?

    I feel a little thick asking this, but I thought I knew what poop boards were, and now...I'm not sure. Are the poop boards just for under where the roosts are? It seems like wherever there are chickens, there's poop. So how are these boards put to use?
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    What features would you include in your dream-coop design?

    I should have said "poop boards" regarding the linoleum, and a hinged upward-lifted door/flap to collect the eggs. I like the idea that the door would lift upward so I can collect eggs as well as clean out the nesting area.
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    What features would you include in your dream-coop design?

    Hi folks - I am having a coop built which will have indoor and outdoor access for humans as well as birds. I am trying to think of every last thing I can think of to add (electrical hookups, linoleum flooring in the poop areas, easy-access flaps for the nesting boxes, etc) and I want to be sure...
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    Coop roofing idea: Can the construction-impaired handle this design?

    Hey everybody! I don't have the carpentry skills to build a coop like this (or like anything else that isn't formed from series of milk boxes and zip ties), but I'm hoping even the village idiot could manage this roof:(from...
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    More chunneling fodder!

    This is great! I'm glad you followed up with the drill info - I assumed that's what you must have done. I am considering a really similar design, only the bottom will be made of the fencing as well. I'm banking on grass or weeds aiding to nail the chunnel down, as long as the chickens don't eat...
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    More chunneling fodder!

    Hey folks - I'm struggling with the best chunnel design. Just saw the 5-foot bent conduit chunnel, which seems too expensive for this budget. I have some pvc piping I can flex to shape, but it seems sort of wimpy. What are you using for your arches, assuming you have an arched design as opposed...
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    Crippled Chicken - A Heartbreaking Story of Hope and Redemption

    Thank you TwoCrows! That's exactly what I needed to hear. Bless your little heart! I mean, I'm sure you have a big heart - it's just so sweet, and dear, that little heart of yours!
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    Crippled Chicken - A Heartbreaking Story of Hope and Redemption

    It probably goes without saying that my friends all think I'm insane. C'est la vie, right? (Don't answer that.)
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    Crippled Chicken - A Heartbreaking Story of Hope and Redemption

    Thanks for your input, TwoCrows. Basically here at the ranch, we are divided down the middle: I would TOTALLY (!) keep Sweetie indoors, in diapers, until such time she can manage an outdoor lifestyle (I plan to keep her and my mean old red hen separate). But my very tolerant husband has nearly...
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    Crippled Chicken - A Heartbreaking Story of Hope and Redemption

    Thanks so much for your reply, dawg53. I agree that I have a decision to make. In your opinion, is this hen capable of being an egg producer?
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    Crippled Chicken - A Heartbreaking Story of Hope and Redemption

    Hi everyone, I am fostering a crippled hen who originally was going to keep my lone Rhode Island Red company. When I introduced the new hen, the RI Red bit her and tore at her feathers. This visitor, who I'm calling Sweetie, was being picked on by her original flock, and she moved here with...
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    Hello Folks - I'm new here, and eager to meet y'all

    Hello everyone, I'm Heather - I live in a suburb of Kansas City, MO and have a small coop that started as a 3-chicken home. Two of them turned out to be roosters and had to go live elsewhere since city codes prevent my having guys in the hen house. I asked some farmer friends whether they had...
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