I did get an automatic door for the coop. I'm going to wire it into the solar system my shed runs on. We plan to let them out of the run on occasion, but mostly when we're hanging out in the backyard for the day. Where we live in town raccoons are just about the only predators we have to worry...
Hello, I don't know if people post their coop builds on here or not. It's common on the aquarium forums I'm on to do build threads, so I figured I would do one here. I posted a little bit on my intro post to the forums, but I'll make this my official thread to the start of my chicken journey...
Has a roof and got the bottom all finished up. The corrugated is buried about 12" into the ground. I will build the door next and then start framing out the actual coop portion.
Thanks for all the welcomes, this will be my small starting flock:
1. Black Copper Marans
2. Cream Legbar
3. Olive Egger
4. Gold Laced Wyandotte
5. Welsummer
6. Silver Laced Wyandotte
Hello, I'm new to the backyard chicken community. I wanted to find a good forum where finding advise and getting questions answered is easy. I'm also a reef tank keeper and have been a member of a couple of those forums for almost 2 decades. As of right now I do not have any chickens, I do...