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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    Floor's in. Nest boxes will be on those extended joists. Duck under deck. We're framing it in like a house. It will be a regular roof with heavy shingles, so I may be nervous about supporting everything well. Also, anything to keep the predators out like bears and charging rhinos. Next...
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    Finally some progress. Chickens are too big to be inside. After this is floor and framing for doors, windows, ventilation. Then coop roof I guess. Then doors, windows, amenities. Hopefully I can finish up the coop pretty much all the way before doing the run.
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    Housing ideas for rescue duckling with chicken flock?

    Very helpful, @redsoxs , thanks!
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    How much room? I'll research it.
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    Housing ideas for rescue duckling with chicken flock?

    A few weeks ago, we got our first chickens ever. Five still in brooder (in house) and quickly outgrowing it. Two weeks ago we accepted a duckling as a rescue. Nothing wrong with it. A college student purchased it as a pet then quickly surrendered to a friend who works with animals. My wife...
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    ha, yes! and those strings...
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    Well, @Folly's place and @Dmontgomery , the design is much simpler than the plans, but the same basic idea. There's momentum, and posts in cement, so pretty much no going back. We have city codes restricting number of chickens to 6, but should be room for about twice that according to you guys...
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    cage wire on premium rabbits dot com

    I am looking for a 100' roll of 14 gauge 1/2" x 1" cage wire to use as my coop apron. I found some the other day on premiumrabbits.com, and wanted to ask if anyone knew the site. Tonight I pull the site up and it's down. Most of the 1/2" x 1" I can get locally is in 10' rolls and 16 gauge. I...
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    Hopefully I did. They're in concrete, now. Those plans are definitely more impressive than what I'm actually building.
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    first coop build - suggestions welcome

    We are adapting one of Vanh Nguyen's design's from his website. Here's the link: http://www.homegardendesignplan.com/2013/11/m105-chicken-coop-plans-construction.html?m=1 Architect friends have told me this one is designed like an Asian temple. I don't have the master carpentry skills to do...
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    Hey from Alabama

    Hello, BYC! We are new to chickenry, and have five five-week-olds that we ordered from My Pet Chicken. They are an Easter egger named Lily, a Plymouth partridge rock named Big Red, a buff orpington named Nugget, a blue ameraucana named Chicken No. 2, and an australorp named Captain Phasma. We...
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