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    thank you,,,everyone this is my last post

    if you own enough land try to get part of it rezoned for ag, might take awhile. good way to piss off the neighbors and also check to see if your state has the right to farm.
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    anyone have some direct instruction to make these external outside nest boxes, how to exactly do it and cost. It would be very helpful thanks.
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    Nope our last coop my father built was a makeshift coop that was built fast, quick, and no thought process, because we at first had them on the heated porch ten winter approach and mother put them in the greenhouse full of leafy greens. There went the leafy greens. So we had to make a makeshift...
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    I think we really like the idea's of the external egg doors. The ease of getting eggs everyday would be easier than going in everyday. (Funny story, Mother feeding the chickens and accidentally falls trips and the chickens raid her for she has the food. She is yelling and screaming. Father is...
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    I like all these ideas. The water unit i think must be pipe in the same goes for electric too. Any one else got any other ideas and price estimates in building coops that can hold at least 15 chickens? Also thanks to posters you all have great ideas.
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    Thank you for the ideas, but you see I think we kinda have to lift the coop off the ground since the water table around us is better high. We are less than about 1/4 mile or less from a rather large size creek. Last time we tried deep method it didn't work very well, also probably due to the bad...
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    Need Help Planning a new coop to hold at least 15 or so chickens.

    Hi here on the Ruder Ranch we are planning to build a better chicken coop then the last one which was a pretty basic on the ground coop. We want to make a good coop w/run that can withstand the basic weather of southern Indiana which includes snow and some ice and also the predators which...
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