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    A coyote found my chickens and I am in a panic

    I just got my birds Friday and a pack came through last night about 20 ft from the coop. I wasn't prepared for them to 'catch on' so quick. We have bush all around us and wildlife is abundant so it was expected. I agree with the comments of most- you need to dispatch one of them as a deterrent...
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    northern chicken hangout

    hi all This is my first coop design/build and it is about 95% recycled material. The floor and walls were an ATV delivery crate and the flooring as well as several 2 x 4's were 're-couped' from a local building tear-down. I bought the steel for the roof and the inside / outside walls. I'm still...
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    Greetings from Northern Ontario

    tx for the welcome all I have been slaving away at building a coop but being winter and still having 2-3 feet of snow I'm building it in a shed. I'm building it in sections (walls , floor etc ) and found an awesome resource for material. A local snowmobile dealer tosses the crates from new...
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    Greetings from Northern Ontario

    Thanks all for the welcome .... I'm still working on the coop and need to have a major snow melt so I can finish the construction- I have the walls and floor built but weight wise I want to assemble in place, which will be out back of the house. I'll go through all the posts / links before I...
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    Greetings from Northern Ontario

    Hi Folks, New to both the forum and to raising chickens . We have 6 starters on order for early April and I will be here 'pecking' your brains(pun intended) for info. I have started the coop - building a 4x8 with access to the roosting boxes. I have found lots of valuable info here so far and...
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