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    Nesting boxes

    Very easy to access. They hop in and out of the pop door on the left no problem. The nest boxes are the same height. Nothing in the way.
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    Nesting boxes

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    Nesting boxes

    I'm having the exact same problem. I kept waiting and waiting for the first eggs, checking the nest boxes daily, nothing. Then last Saturday I opened up the coop and there were two piles of eggs (I only have two hens old enough to lay right now) six in each pile. So they'd been laying for a...
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    Introducing ourselves

    It will be shortly. This coop has mushroomed in size (yes I fell for the chicken math). :-). I finally have it ready to attach the hardware cloth that has been sitting in my garage for over three months. I took all my measurements yesterday and will cut this afternoon and start attaching...
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    Introducing ourselves

    Of course we filled the coop with several inches of fresh pine shavings but I don’t have a picture of that. We are using the deep litter method.
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    Introducing ourselves

    The entire coop and run are in the shade. The coop is well ventilated as the walls are made with fence pickets that have gaps between them and we have large vented openings at the top. Plus a vented bottom to the nest box.
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    Introducing ourselves

    Our run and coop are divided in half. Basically we have two 8x4 coops and two runs that are 8 x 25. But it’s all together as one unit. Yes we still have all 8 males for a couple of more weeks. But two are in one run and the others in the Nextdoor run. We are using the next couple of weeks to...
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    Introducing ourselves

    We are new to backyard chickens. We hatched four eggs my son brought home from the agriculture barn at school and then four weeks later hatched another 11 Easter Eggers that we got from a friend. We ended up with 8 Roosters from those, so we decided to order some female, Rhode Island reds to...
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