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  1. Dantaylors Chicken Coop

    Dantaylors Chicken Coop

    This page is under construction and will change as I get further into the build. So we got into chicken's for the first time this year. My son is 7 years old and my wife and I thought it would be a good time to introduce him to what its like to have responsibility. All of the wood for my coop...
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    • Category: Small Coops
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    Dropped 4 day old chick

    I think she's fine she just tried to fly out of box!
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    Dropped 4 day old chick

    I don't think it's her crop, none of the other chicks have it and her swelling is going down. Thanks for the comfort, I still feel a little sick about it. Poor thing!
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    Dropped 4 day old chick

    Thank you. She's still doing great this morning, I think it's just a goose egg. Maybe we should call her Lucky!
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    Dropped 4 day old chick

    I did the one thing I tell my kids not to do! I stood over the brooder box with a 4 day old chick and proceeded to drop her on her head. She fell about three feet. She seems to be fine eating, drinking, sleeping, pooping, and does not seem to be in distress. However she has a large marble size...
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    Girl's first day outside

    Quote: honestly we are not 100% sure. My wife is calling them leghorn's, we purchased the bird's from Murdoch's here in town. Their sign just says assorted layers.
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    Girl's first day outside

    yeah its so much fun watching them out there. My wife and son had a blast hanging out with them and we all look forward to them being old enough to move in.
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    Girl's first day outside

    Oh man how much fun is this! It's warm enough here now ot take them out for a bit of outside fn so we brought the babies out to introduce them to their future home! It took a few minutes for them to move around but once they did oh man it looked like they were having a ball out there...
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    A budget build coop! Major update 4/20/09

    Major update. the coop is at 99% completion. All that's really left to do is build a ramp going in the coop. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=27167 Thanks for looking and big thanks to allthe people on this site for posting up their coop design's as it helped me allot in...
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    A budget build coop! Major update 4/20/09

    Thanks for the response guys and girls. Its been allot of fun so far and we cannot wait to get it done! I'll update the thread here as I get more built.
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    A budget build coop! Major update 4/20/09

    So as to not clutter up the post I'll just link you all the page I have started on here and show you the progress of my build. If only the weather had been nicer yesterday i would have gotten further along. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=27167 UPDATED to be current
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    How big to build my coop?

    Hit up your local lumber yards for pieces of wood that came off of shipping crates. Most of them will have tons fo it laying around. My first try out fo the gate at a Lowes store yielded me 4 sheets of plywood and probably 10 2x4's for my coop. Also as others have stated craig's list and...
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    Grand Junction Colorado checking in

    Greetings from the mid west! Some friends of ours have children who are in 4H and this year their daughter is doing chickens. Naturally we go down to Murdoch's with them to see the baby chicks and what do you know, I walk out of there with 6 baby chicks! My family couldn't be more excited...
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