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Here is the coop and run I built using almost all pallets and scavanged material. I had to buy some lumber for framing and wire but all in all i ended up with 278.00 in the entire set up.

they will normally all sleep ont the roosting bar once they get used to the coop. You may ave to keep them locked in it for a week or so until they learn that its home or they may just start going back in at dark, dpends on how old they are. If you can give them a run with plent of space and...

Ok do the weather has been wet and to unfriendly to get any wokr done the past few days. We spent the weekend finishing the coop and run and now have moved all 18 chicks outside. They are now 8 weeks old and will have plenty of room to run. We started this project with a plan to spend less than...

Mine are going to be sealed. I have covered it with ply wood inside and out and that will be painted. I'm going to update some pictures later this week when I can get back to it.

Here are a few pictures from this weekend between the thunder storms and three inches of rain. We are adding in a much larger coop to allow us to expand the number of chickens we have. We are trying to use as much free material as we could get to keep the cost of this low. I will post more as we...

welcome!!!!

any other input about these would be great.

They all are out waiting every morning for one of us to come out and give them some type of treat. So far their favorite has been grits that my wide fixes for them every weekend.

Thank you all for the replies. I was hoping for a few rooster but did not want to be over run with them.

I dont think she was to happy that all the treats were gone!

Already looking to add 25 new girsl after the babies are good to go outside.

This is a few pictures of our girls that are currently laying. I know the two dark ones are indian game but not sure about the other two. These were given to us by a family friend that has raised chickens his entire life. The last picture is the new babies that we are adding to the flock. We...

I got mine at tsc a little over two weeks ago. I got RR barred rocks and black jersey giants. They have sold out and re stocked with bantam, buffs and production reds now as well as some ducklings. I thnik after we raisse the 18 chicks we have and they can move to the coop we are going to add...