Time to turn my attention to the siding. For grins I called a local lumber yard to price 1x6 rough sawn cedar. $30 bucks for a 16’ piece. No thanks. Instead I grabbed a load of cedar fence pickets at the local box store for $2/each. Quality is rough but picking through the pile reveals some...
Hey Chicken Lovers,
Expanding the coop for the new brood. Doubling the size of our previous flock, used to be six hens now have 12 on the way!
Old coop was 4 x 6 = 24 sq. ft.
New coop will be 7 x 6 = 42 sq. ft.
I built the original coop 6 years ago. I was proud of if then and it worked out...
Hope you all don't mind if I share a little more info about us...
We got our chicks at Green's Feed in the North Valley's area in Reno. I can't say enough good things about the staff at Green's. So friendly and helpful to city folk like us that knew nothing about keeping chickens or...
Greetings Nevadans!
New chicken keepers here from Reno, NV. Just found this regional thread and am so pleased to know there is an active chicken lovers group here in Nor. Nevada.
Hope you don't mind the re-post but this was from my earlier thread in the introductions forum:
Let me start...
Greetings BYC!
New chicken keepers here from Reno, NV.
Let me start by saying thank you to the BYC community for all your help so far. This forum has been an invaluable resource to us (my wife and myself). From tips to designing our coop, advice on dealing with 'pasty-butt, and much more...