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    Newbie needs help!

    That's Easter eggers (Phones!)
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    Newbie needs help!

    Cuckoo Mayans, Easter effects and one Chinese goose for a watchdog! Yeah I know...that's 11.
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    Newbie needs help!

    Ha, ha, just kidding..OK so a day full of searching farm stores and hardware stores has fully convinced us to use what we have. We have spent the rest of the day cleaning it the kennel out, and checking our inventory. Neighbors have started giving us helpful suggestions. Having taken our...
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    Newbie needs help!

    Scrapping the dog run conversion. Too many issues with it. Where's the best place to order/buy coop kits? Looking for an easier way to get started!
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    Newbie needs help!

    All my neighbors have chickens and they are chuckling a bit when I go ask them my 101 questions. Their runs are dirt nothing more. Their laying boxes have straw or hay or something like it nothing else. Heat lamp, box fan, plenty of hardware mesh food, water. That's it. But they couldn't tell me...
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    Newbie needs help!

    TwoCrows; what climate do you live? I'm in Missouri. High humidity and very drastically seasonal temprature changes.Some have advised to be sure this is considered as a factor when deciding.Thank you for the link! So helpful. If I'm making the coop part from wood, does there need to be bedding...
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    Got sand? You should!

    Had an idea once my run is slopped, I was thinking put sand on the concrete to level it up building a wood baseboard at an angle. So, only sand at the back of the coop. This is where I will put some off the ground perches? Then the other half and in the coop would be thick pine? Thoughts...
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    Newbie needs help!

    After much reading, I have some ideas I would like some opinions about. I was thinking about putting a 1-2" layer of sand down on the cement floor then throwing in some pine shavings,on top? Using the sand as a padding and the pine as bedding of sorts. Thinking I wouldn't have to scoop everyday...
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    Got sand? You should!

    I live in the middle of MO. I can't imagine sand staying dry like other posts say? My coop is in the shade and slightly angled down a slope. What prevents the sand from washing away. We have a lip around the base to border and hold the hardware mesh but still one good heavy rain and I'd think...
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    Newbie needs help!

    In the blue print stage of building my first coop/run. Never had chickens but both my neighbors do. All my sometime has been thinking/researching about chickens for 2 weeks! Have old dog kennel/run that we are building it around because I thought the cement bottom would be great, but I'm reading...
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