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    Need Help with Paint Options/Other Ideas for my pre-fab coop!

    Is your yard fenced? As in, would they be allowed to run around the yard for a bit every day? Just thinking on this for space maximization. If you’re not super handy, don’t have a lot of tools, it can still be done. Let me think on it since I have your dimensions.... Oh wait, so 6ft high, 10ft...
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    Need Help with Paint Options/Other Ideas for my pre-fab coop!

    This is another product made by the same company. Very similar in features and resistance as the one that I’ve used before. I have not personally used this specific product, but I’ve used about 3 or so of this companies stuff and it’s all worked really well and provided great protection. I...
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    Need Help with Paint Options/Other Ideas for my pre-fab coop!

    Bricks sunk into the dirt would be great. The problem is when you’ve got ground contact you have more organic material for things to grow. Even with sealing the wood, ground contact is something entirely different. Either sinking the frame or putting in sunken in bricks, with just a bit above...
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    Need Help with Paint Options/Other Ideas for my pre-fab coop!

    So, I do a lot of home repurposing, fabrication, building, restoring and junk just for fun, hobby, necessity or what have you. I have some recommendations just based on my own experience with stuff, and of course past failures. I live in Virginia now, but lived in Louisiana for 9 years. With...
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    Self Sufficiency: Where to begin?

    When I started on self sufficiency I basically looked at my life (before starting) and everything I did, used, consumed, paid for, etc etc. I was lucky to have very self sufficient handy parents that made and did a lot. So I had a good start. But it helps to start with what you actively do and...
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    Kitchen cabinet upcycle...???

    So I built raised beds in my yard with 6x10” boards and railroad ties. Basically. Raised beds typically do not have a bottom. Doesn’t mean you can’t have one, they just usually don’t. You use the board width to raise the height of the ground and fill them with dirt. Raising your bed height. For...
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    candles or soap?

    I’ve made both, multiple ways. That being said, I have questions regarding the use of deer fat. Most fat used in candle & soap making (at least within our relatively history) is fat from non-animal sources. Nuts, seeds, and the like. But there’s nothing saying you can’t or shouldn’t use animal...
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    Virginia

    Greetings everyone! New to the group and keeping backyard chickens in Virginia. I grew up out in the boonies in PA, so I’m not unfamiliar with keeping livestock. Just not here in a backyard. Having them as more pets will be a new experience, but not different in practice I suppose. We’re...
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    New here, Sam in Portsmouth, VA

    Hi there, Samantha here. We’re in Portsmouth Virginia. I was sent here as a resource for info and supplies, etc by Carol at PeCK. Our local chicken keepers group. Below if anyone is interested: http://www.peninsulachickenkeepers.weebly.com/ As far as the questions go, well we don’t have any...
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