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    Reclaimed and pallet wood coop build

    And four months later the coop is finally finished!
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    Reclaimed and pallet wood coop build

    Got a reciprocating saw my birthday and it makes breaking then down a breeze. Update on the coop, I quickly realized it was going to be way too heavy for the wheels I planned to put on, so I took a couple of 6x6 posts I had lying around and chiseled out a mortise to make skids. Plan is to lift...
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    Reclaimed and pallet wood coop build

    I don't do anything special, just a hammer and a pry bar. Pry up the ends first and then the middle as carefully as I can. There's still quite a bit of splitting going on though. Some pallets come apart harder than others
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    Reclaimed and pallet wood coop build

    Not much update, broke down a couple pallets this weekend. We did put in a order for some chicks though! 6 barred rocks 3 white rocks 2 buff silkie bantams and 2 mille fleur bearded d'uccle bantams. The rocks are coming April 16 so I'm officially on the clock
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    Reclaimed and pallet wood coop build

    I've been working on building a coop and thought I would start a thread to track it. There were a couple of cages of some sort out back behind the house when we bought it. I think they may have been for rabbits. I took one partially apart and going to use that as the base for a chicken coop...
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    Hello

    Hi! I've been wanting to raise chickens for some time now and am getting very close to being ready. This site has some great information and I've started building my coop and wanted to make a thread to track progress.
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