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The battery is only running 3 small lights . It will keep them on for over a week or so with no sun . When the sun comes out it only takes 1 good day of sunshine to change it back up again. But even a little sun will do some charging.

The roof is just framing no plywood yet just installed and covered with plastic. I got the solar panel from autozone it was $20.00 and it works very good at keeping the battery charged up . I put 3 12v lights on it 2 outside and 1 inside. It has been working for apx.9 weeks . And so far the...

I still have not gotten the roof dried in . Working on that next weekend. The small solar panel works great keeping the 12v lighting on.

I got the solar panel put up..

I picked up a small solar panel from autozone. It works great for my needs .I only have two small led lights and a small deep cycle battery

I would rather work on the coop than go to work today.

I need to move to the country !!!

I checked out your math with an abacus and it is correct. example.. I told my wife I was getting 2 chicks and I came home with 7.. LOL chicken math...

my coop is apx. 8x10 .I am starting out with 7 chicks .they are still inside under the heat light.i am going small and plan on adding more as time and money allow. my grandkids think i need 10 hundred LOL. good luck and read all you can find ..

We are close to Dayton

I had to build a coop I maybe have $50 dollars in it I had a lot of pallets and used them help to keep the cost down. We spent $65 at tsc and got everything we needed and 7 chicks. Planning on apx. 25.00 45.00 a month in expenses. Not sure but we are new at keeping chickens.

Hello My wife and I are new at this we have been wanting to get chickens for a few years. I was an over the road trucker for 26 years and now im off the road . Being home now the time is right and so we did it . We picked up 5 buff orpingtons and 2 black australorps 2 week old chicks . Thery...