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You can see the water is pouring out from the tabs where the base attaches to the top. It does look like the water level is up on the base, I don't remember it being that high. I did crack a plastic tab off the top and had to patch it - wondering if that might be causing a problem. Regardless I...

Bought this from TSC and the bottom trough has rust on it. I clean it on occasion but it rusts up again. The manufacturer sent us a new one, but was wondering if there was anything to repair it? When we bought it there was what looked like a paint on the lower are, that wore off and caused the...

Our only issue with that is all the predatory birds we have around. I first go around with free ranging birds didn't go so well.

They do not free range. no signs of any changes. My wife things that they are not happy, as their coop needs a cleaning - so they are not laying right now.

We hit a new record on 91 today, so it's still pretty toasty. The yard had always had soft spots like a gopher tunnel, but there seems to be a ton around the coop. Granted the coop is in our vegetable garden, and that may be the draw for the moles, ground hogs,gophers or whatever is making tunnels.

There are no shells and the scat looks to have some white in it which points towards a snake.

There is a shot of the coop. Hardware cloth all around and concrete blocks for the base. Nesting boxes are on the side and rear, I don't think we had them on in this picture.

We have a 6x10 coop inside of our fenced in 50x50 garden. Things have been going great until about two days ago. I noticed the egg count was getting lower, as of this afternoon there were none. I have six hens in there - so I should have something - unless I have a visitor. I did notice the...