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    Chicken Coop Beginnings

    Latest update, I know it has been a while but I have been busy. As I wait for the sun to rise this morning in order to finish adding the rafters and plywood roof, I thought I would give a status update. In the following photo I finished the frame for the bottom of the coop and installed the...
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    Help to identify my chickens

    They look like rhode island reds or second generation golden sex links.
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    Chicken Coop Beginnings

    Well last night I was able to get the wall up that forms the other half of the coop area. I also put the header in for the door. Yes it is very tall because I am very tall, and don't want to hit my head every time I go into the run area. Today I placed an extra 2"x4" in the corners of the coop...
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    Chicken Coop Beginnings

    We have eight hens that are six months old. All eight are laying everyday. They are golden sex links
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    New Coop on it's way

    I think as long as we shut the door to the coop each night we should be fine. We have not had any issues yet with the smaller coop. Not a lot of predators in our city of Gilbert Arizona. I did see a stray coyote running down the street about a 1/4 of a mile away about two months ago. I am not...
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    Chicken Coop Beginnings

    Hello everyone, I bought my package of wood for my 6' x 12' chicken coop. It set me back by $500 but I am excited to finally start building my own design. I started off with four 4"x4" pressure treated lumber at 12 feet for the front and back and 6 feet for the sides. Thankfully my son leveled...
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    Chicken with tail down

    We have eight sex links and I have not seen this before but they are only five months old. All eight are laying with no issues so far.
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    New Coop on it's way

    I am excited, our five month old chickens are ready to move into their new chicken coop, but first I have to build it. After looking at 100's of idea's I decided to go with a design of my own based off of some very popular rectangular chicken coops. While I like the fancy ones that look like...
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    Hello Mr. Steamy Kitchen, I recently bought your plans but the one thing I don't know how to do...

    Hello Mr. Steamy Kitchen, I recently bought your plans but the one thing I don't know how to do is pour a footer. I would appreciate a little more instruction about the footer, what lumber to use to frame it out, type of gravel to use for the 2 inch base, etc. If you could provide a little more...
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    Hello from Gilbert Arizona

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Answer: We had chickens before but we bought a new house and were unsure if the HOA would allow them even though it is called Gateway Ranch. We first had chickens about five years ago but life got busy and we moved so we gave...
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