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    Large coop fixer-upper - could use some advise.

    I did a similar conversion of a building that was the milkhouse on the old dairy farm we bought a few years ago. It's got a concrete floor and the walls are concrete halfway up. Had to put the pophole four feet off the ground with a ramp! I know it's been a couple of months since you started...
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    Paint inside of coop? Too many different views... What do you think?

    Whoever said this either never had blue ceilings, or never had spider problems in the first place! I've got blue walls & ceilings in my coop (because that is the paint I had on hand) and the spiders don't seem to be scared of it one bit. Seems like cobwebs are more of a problem in the chicken...
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    Coop light timers - What do you have?

    Looks to me like it's just a plug-in socket, plugged in to the outlet on the timer. Should be able to get one of those sockets at any hardware store.
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    Coop light timers - What do you have?

    Since the chickens naturally want to go to sleep at dusk, I didn't want to have the light come on in the evening. And since dusk comes at a different time every day (as early as 4 pm in the winter or late as 9 pm in the summer), I didn't want to have to keep adjusting the timer. I got hold of...
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