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    Hello sw mo

    Wife and I are thinking about getting a chicken coop, it houses 8, and wondered how much it would/could supply us with as far as eggs and occasional meat?
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    Could use some advice on building an A-frame coop

    I hear what you are saying, but as of right now the chicken has zero protection. So even a wet paper bag would be more than she has now. We have it all as far as predators go out here in Missouri, we live out in the country, the Ozarks Hills. We have fox, coyotes, raccoons, possum, skunks...
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    Could use some advice on building an A-frame coop

    He doesn't have the money left to buy that, it is quite expensive. He has already put about $100 dollars out for lumber, hardware, paint & supplies. That is another $75, he was given some 2"x2" welded wire roll fencing that we are going to have to use, at least for now. I will have to return the...
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    Could use some advice on building an A-frame coop

    Can we use this extruded plastic alternitive poultry fence? The guy at Home Depot sold it to my son https://m.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-Actual-25-ft-x-3-ft-Poultry-Green-HDPE-Extruded-Mesh-Rolled-Fencing/3457516
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    MO Dad a chicken adopted our son

    I guess it is already starting, his boss(he works on a farm, and no it isn't her chicken) offered him two hens and a rooster, because she said his hen is lonely! ?????????????
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    Could use some advice on building an A-frame coop

    We are using some free plans we found on Anna something or other. Or I should say roughly following them. He is using 1"x2"x8' furring strips instead of 2"x4"s so that has messed up some of the measurements, the peak angles came out wrong and I'm not sure how to fix that, there is about a 1/2"...
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    MO Dad a chicken adopted our son

    Our 16yr old son started noticing a chicken when he went places, after a few days he finally realized the chicken had made the bed of his s10 pickup under his toolbox home. So he went and bought it a water and food feeder and got a cat litter box and some hay. Now we have a chicken living on our...
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