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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    So what is now the day room / quarantine room needed insulation and interior boards before I can get started dividing it up with some secondary cages. Me and my buddy powered through and got this done in a day. Decided not to install the hardware cloth inside these walls - the cages will be...
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    Comment by 'AnomieAcres' in item 'Fayoumis'

    So hey did you end up doing these crosses? I have just ordered some and your story was interesting.
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    Comment by 'AnomieAcres' in item 'Welsummer'

    Wow I read your story here after ordering a few of these guys. Really happy to hear of your excellent experiences :)
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Hey there this is for crazyfeathers, a bunch of closeup pictures and some tips about how I installed this stuff. Here are the posts in front of the nest boxes. I just cut them to rough length, spun them around until it looked functional, and then used staples and some scrap bits of...
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    This will be close to the last post for this thread, because at least this main section of the coop is pretty much done. I'd like to show a few more pics of the final touches. Third day and all chickens are still alive! Excellent! Someone asked about the breeds - the guys who sold them...
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    The coop is almost done. Increase challenge level, install birds! My buddy set me up with these 12 week old guys. 11 hens, 1 rooster. It is really obvious that there is way more space available in here. Need cleats on that walkway, and need to put a mesh grate on the window so...
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    Nova Scotia, Canada. Any other East Coasters??

    And I am also not a far neighbour from you, Windy Bay Farm, right on.
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Hi guys, Thanks for your comments, it's fun for me to share this with y'all and I am ready to give another short report I ended up buying a thing of tung oil and a thing of linseed oil, but have started thinking that I should just leave well enough alone, it's a barn. Yee ha, the...
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Wow is it ever cold these days! This morning I realized that I need to get all the windows more secure. Fewer snow drifts within the barn would be a good thing. So I spent the day properly installing finish trim around the edges of all the windows. Every little step makes the place more...
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    Newbie's quick coop

    Cute, and some use and subsequent analysis/modification can make it functional.
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Hi there guys, I have not been working at full speed over the holidays, but I am making some progress slowly, surely. This is how I treated the two exterior coop walls. Insulation, then vapor barrier. Then I had to frame it out with 2X4 just to make it work with the way the internal...
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    Plans hurried along by lack of foresight !

    Well either way I guess we can all agree that mink are BAD, m'kay?
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Very useful food for thought! So my "obvious" idea actually might not make the best sense in the long run... I will consider this as I wait eagerly for other opinions. Thanks petrel.
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    Plans hurried along by lack of foresight !

    Oi, weasel attack, quelle dommage! Sucks but hope you don't get too discouraged. Where I live mink are the threat, I think they have quite similar MO to weasels but sneakier and able to fit into even smaller holes.
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    N00b builds chicken accommodations, please send your advice as I get started!

    Hello everyone, So I am in southwestern Nova Scotia, and just getting started on establishing my homestead. By some good fortune I have come across a near infinite source of scrap lumber and old barnboards. Chickens are the first step! We want eggs! Free materials and a big empty...
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