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    Paint inside of coop? Too many different views... What do you think?

    I painted the inside of the coop with primer and did the floors and a few inches up the walls with a tan colored roll on truck bed liner.
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    Thinking about the Murray's Choice Layers 15 count.
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    Pasty butt question

    Has anyone tried coconut oil? It cures all kinds of stuff.
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    Beam is 10 inches wide and about 8-10 inches underground. It should be critter proof.
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    Run is about 18x19.
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    Getting close to being finished. We stapled hardware cloth to the 2x6s, then trimmed with 1x4s for extra hold on the wire and to make it look a little more finished. Ramp and door in for the girls.
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    Roof going up today. I'm using tin from a chicken house one of my neighbors tore down - the family used to raise chickens for Pilgrim's. We had to overlap quite a bit, but it will get the job done and I like using some reclaimed materials. Coop floor is in and ready to be framed.
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    More progress.
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    Walls going up.
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    Since I got a lot of ideas from this forum, I thought I better join and share the process. Here's what's gone on over the last 10 days. Turning my top garden in to a chicken coop. Here's the beginning ... building a concrete beam as the base. Here are some photos as the form for the concrete...
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