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looks like darth vader's chicken.. from episode seven Quote: [URL='http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/mdkdcrews<br><br>Got']http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l2/mdkdcrews Got these off of feathersite! They WIN!!!!

i've got chainlink for most of my chickenyard, it is in separate panels of pipe frames with the chainlink streched on each panel. the panels are connected with these little connector brackets. this has dealt with most of the elevation changes very nicely, there was one small spot that i filled...

chips are definitely not shavings. i use shavings which i buy fairly cheap at a local co-op (though they get them from canada) i think a sawmill would have something much more like shavings that could be used as bedding if you could get it dry my town does the mulch thing as well, but it's...

here's another, from an english outfit. http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/vsb_export.htm though at $158 it's a bit much. a cheap garage door opener would be overkill but would do the trick, maybe cheaper.

thanks PI! that's exactly the kind of thing i'm looking for! seems a tad pricey though. anyone know any other vendors? as to the wooden door, it's plywood which is fairly dimensionally stable, the channels are also plywood, there's a bit of room in there and i've waxed it up good. the roof...

how do you teach them to not get eaten?

that would work well i think, clever idea! i'd put it up on blocks though, not directly on the ground. and i'd just butt the fence up against it, but i suppose attaching the fence with metal screws or something wouldn't be a bad idea.

i've got a guillotine style door from the coop to the yard, with a cable on a pully to open and close it without going into the yard. But with it getting dark earlier, i thought it would be great to have an automatic door opener on it, that way it can be opened at a certain time and closed at a...

food is a great motivator, but you have to be consistent. they will develop habits (as you noticed) if you wna to change their habits you have to do the same thing at the same time. when mine went from the brooder to the coop, i left them in the coop for a few days. that let them adjust to...

yep. we put the yard in an area that we didn't want grass anyway. but it's really a function of how densly populated the area they have is. the more chickens in the same area the faster they will denude it. but a few chickens in a vast space will have a hard time clearing it.