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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    We have mostly aerial predators here - I was going to reinforce the top line with more 2x6 would that help ?
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    here’s the run I flagged it for birds
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    The chicken coop and run reno are done!

    And the ladies are moved in! Opinions thoughts? I have new water buckets for them with the little cup feeders. Hardware cloth will be stapled 6” up the base of the coop then backfilled with Roadbase. Eventually going to put hog fuel/wood chips in the run for drainage.. hoping the cross...
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    The coop is 10’ x 4.5’ we have it raised off the ground by 6” we are going to put 1/4” hardware cloth stapled from the base 18” out and backfill with road base to keep the predators out of the coop which itself is a fortress. I guess I could consider raising the fencing up another 2’? Do you...
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    Luckily here we get very little snow most years none at all :) but absolutely will have to consider it regardless for those times we do I hadn’t even thought about that ! Thank you
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    Hah I live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia; current lows are 10-11C or 50 Fahrenheit there won’t be a roof on the run but it’s got great tree cover (I’ll post a pic) I have 4 foot high 1” chicken wire to fence it in with and we’re going to put 2x6 around the bottom of fencing and we are...
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    Thank you!! They’re about 6 weeks time to start going outside I think the weather is mild here !
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    Chicken Run Advice (pictures inside)

    My partner and I are building our run. We have flattened an area about 500sq feet of previously wooded area. I’ve removed the larger foliage and as you can see in the pictures there are tons of weeds and rocks of varying sizes. We plan to eventually put wood chips/hog fuel down but am...
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    The great coop expansion!

    We’re going to install the trim and then we will do the yard for the girls !! Super exciting 🥰🥰❤️
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    The great coop expansion!

    Almost there ! What a transformation 🥰🥰🥰
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    The great coop expansion!

    Phase 2 a new nesting box and a wall 😮
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    Who knew chickens could cause heartbreak 😭

    I lost a 3 1/2 week old chick today. She was fine this morning; then this afternoon when I checked on them when the others were running from the big hand that feeds them but she didn’t run away.. I picked her up and her breathing was fast and squeaky, I checked her mouth for obstructions...
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    Help with varying ages chicks

    Thank you!!! Happy chicks hopefully they integrate easily
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    Help with varying ages chicks

    The solution! We had built this large brooder (4’x4’x2’) in anticipation of having upwards of 30 chicks from our hatch - so we now have our 7 that hatched and our 3 week olds in the same brooder with a divider - they can see each other but not interact separate food and water and heat. Seems...
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    The great coop expansion!

    I’m documenting our coop expansion - this should be a shit show but please enjoy our progress 😂😂
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