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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Rodents Away From Your Coop?

    We have various traps in and around our coop/run. I am adding one of the bucket water traps tonight. Sometimes I like to go out to our coop pretending I'm Elmer Fudd hunting wabbits... and try to pick off the rodents when I see them. Got my first confirmed kill a few days ago.
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    Will Cayugas and Welsh Harlequin work well together?

    I guess that I should check that these are in fact drakes...
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    Will Cayugas and Welsh Harlequin work well together?

    We recently were given two WH drake ducklings. Have a chance to pick up some Cayuga ducklings as well. Will these two go well together?
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    Cleaning a run

    Once or twice a year I have been cleaning our run, ie digging down to start from "scratch" with fresh grass clippings and wood chips/hay. I leave the chicken manure out in our driveway and neighbors come and take what they need for their gardens. With our recent run addition, I dont see this...
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    Show off your diy coop!

    This shows the most recent addition to the coop itself: a 4'x4' section. I still need to add the roof over the run in this section and replace the netting. Snow last year brought it all down... see zip ties lol. Pic 3 shows our recent run addition. The area is about 24'x20'. Still needs a...
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    Feathers everywhere! Feel pretty bad for the girls.... but worse for our egg production lol. Store bought eggs are just not the same quality!
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    The past week... 3 eggs from 5 girls! This weather change business is rough.
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    What have you repurposed while building ?

    Posted in another thread.... I repurposed lumber and roofing materials from neighbors projects and built an extension onto our coop yesterday. The end section measures just over 4' x 4'... extending our coop to 4'x12'. Our girls have plenty of room to roam under the coop and it is easy to...
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    Show me inside and outside of your homemade coops

    Started work on expanding our raised coop today. Got it 90% done or so. Needs support bars for roof still. Gaps secured around the edges. Need to adjust the sleeping perch. Little things.Roof over the walk area still needs extension. Coop dimensions are 4'x just over 12'. Almost all of...
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    Duck & Hen Coop/Run Design Pictures

    Good thing the hose is only 10' away!
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    Duck & Hen Coop/Run Design Pictures

    Thanks for moving to the proper section. We will have a filter/pump system set up at some point. It has been sitting on the shelf in our garage for about a year. We will have some plants in the pond as well to help with algae and such. I recently read about placing a bucket with holes in it at...
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    Duck & Hen Coop/Run Design Pictures

    Yup! there is a 3' walking path behind that area and then a row of blueberry bushes. Plenty of room for access. Hard to tell in pic, I know.
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    Duck & Hen Coop/Run Design Pictures

    This is what we are thinking: The coop itself will be built against the planter box. I have a pond pump to install still for our murky old pond. Only planning on 2 ducks. We can easily adjust to have pond closed to them if needed.
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    Duck & Hen Coop/Run Design Pictures

    Originally when I made this post, I was thinking same coop. But, now after thinking on it, we will be building a separate coop for the ducks in a completely different part of the yard. We already have a pond in our front yard so we are going to put the duck coop/run area out there.
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    Critique my coop?

    Interested to see your plans for nest boxes. Looks good so far!
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