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    Hardware cloth and healthy chicken feet!

    Wow, thank you! I’d leaned toward chips anyway because drainage, but thank you so much for your help! I love this site already!
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    Hardware cloth and healthy chicken feet!

    Wow, this is great advice. That's exactly what I'm going to do. Yes, I made sure to locate my prospective poultry yard at the highest point to encourage drainage. I'm fortunate that I live near a very small lumber mill that does only rough-cut (untreated) boards, and can get either chips or...
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    Hardware cloth and healthy chicken feet!

    I live in southern Indiana, and I'm going to be setting up my first coop and run and getting my first chickens. Here in Indiana, (1) we have a lot of clay in the soil, and (2) we have predators coming at our chickens from 360 degrees. That means 360-degree hardware cloth around the chickens'...
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    Southern Indiana Chicken Newbie

    I'm hoping to start my flock very soon; we're just clearing out the area where the coop and run will set (hardware cloth 360 around the coop and close enclosure). I'm planning to try to keep six layers (I'll start from pullets). I'm all about the ahead-of-time research. Although I really do want...
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