Recent content by Masonfamily

Hello, New to the community. After research, I designed a coop and am in the final stages of building my own Chicken coop with a run. The coop is 4x8, real easy because that is the size of a typical sheet of plywood! ;-) Used 3/4 plywood for the floor. The walls are 2x2 in a lento design...

Yes, probably too many nest boxes but I am building for a larger flock. At 4x8 I can have up to 8 chickens in it, I am starting off with 4. Planning for the future! ;-) The advice from everyone has been great, love the automatic door opener. Any other advice is always welcome, I just...

How did you go about putting an automatic timer on the door? How did you build the door, pull up or swing out? Like to see pics of that...

Thank you...mine is tall enough for chickens to walk around, just not humans! ;-) I have it such that one side, the none nesting side, can be opened up along the wall to be cleaned out. The nesting boxes can be opened from the top. I started it yesterday, building the bottom portion (Legs...

Hello, Building my first coop. It is a simple 4x8 floor plan with 4' high walls on one side coming down to a 3' high wall on the other and then it will have 4 nesting boxes located on the 3' high wall. Question, how high do I make the roosts off the floor? Will making it out of a 2x2 be ok...

Hello, I am purchasing 4 chickens, coop will be 4x8 and run 15x35. I live just on the edge of town on 1.75 acres with 1 acre being a 30+ tree orchard. No really 'country' property and not the Burbs if you know what I mean. I have another 10+ fruit trees around the property. I have several...

Ummm...with kids I don't think it would be too good to loose a chicken! Could be traumatic for them to loose a chicken. I'll probably keep them in the chicken yard for a while.

The whole reason behind the mixed flock, so the kids can name their chicken and tell them apart. We live slightly off a busy road, so them getting out will be an issue. How about cropping the feathers, I watched a video on youtube and it seemed pretty straight forward and easy. Just have to...

Hello, Great site. After A LOT of research and talking it over with the kids, we are going to build our own chicken coop and get 4 egg laying chickens. My kids are 11, 9, 6, 3 and 6 months old. 1 chicken for each kid and in a couple years we'll get another chicken for the youngest when he...

Hello, I am working on building a new coop, after doing some research on the site here I have a designed picked out and the kids and I will begin building soon. The 'yard' will be 15x35 and the coop will be 4x8 with 5 nests (future growth), located inside the 'yard'. We are getting 4...