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    Automatic Coop Door - What do you like?

    Can't tell the make or model. the box and papers were thrown away long ago. two things I like are knowing my chicks are secure even if I forget to lock them in as I did a few times before we got the automatic door. The other thing I like is not having to hop ou of my bed to go let them out at...
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    Comment by 'Scooby50' in article 'The scoop on a Rubbermaid Big Max coop'

    Great job. I really like the grass trays in their run. Now I want to build some for my run.
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    Poll: Do you have an automatic coop door?

    We have an automatic coop door. It is solar powered with a battery back up.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Often Do You Clean Your Coop?

    I use to have pine shavings on the floor of my coop and it was smelly and wet most of the time. Then my husband built me a sand box on wheels that goes under their roost. Boy what a difference! I took out all of the old litter and put down new shavings, slid the sandbox under the roost and it...
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    A new beginning

    Thank you Love the Dobie photo. I have a female. They are wonderful dogs. How does yours do with the chickens?
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    A new beginning

    I'm a new chicken mom for the second time. I'm trying to do better with flock and it shows. But I have lots of questions I hope to find answers to. I have 12 buff Orpingtons-11 hens and a roo
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    What Shed to get for Converting to a Coop?

    We paid 800.00 for a 7x7 resin shed two years ago. It has a floor and sits on a concrete pad. we cut out windows on both of the double front doors and covered them spaces with hardware cloth. Did the same thing on one wall. We screwed a piece of 4x4 plywood on one wall and mounted our nestboxes...
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