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    Modifying coop to fit around tree?

    Well, we got caught by rain, but nearly all the run frame is primed, and about half the siding for the coop portion is done too. The plywood is partially cut and under a tarp. Still debating if I want to do an exterior nest box or just have the nest boxes inside the main coop. The coop...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Why is it always rain in the forecast when I’m painting? Trying to prime the wood for our coop and it started an hour earlier than predicted! On the upside, we have the bullseye primer on all the run frame done, and half of the siding for the outside of the coop! The interior plywood panels I...
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    Modifying coop to fit around tree?

    I considered this but the main issue is that it would come up through the roof, which I don’t really understand how to compensate for! We are on the west coast on a migratory pathway so I want the run fully roofed.
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    Modifying coop to fit around tree?

    I don’t know if we could move this one, it’s pretty tall! I am building right now, haha. This photo is old; the area behind the tree is completely cleared and full of 2x4s!
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    Modifying coop to fit around tree?

    Hey y’all. I am building a coop from plans I bought online Here. The problem is the plan wants you to have a fairly large roof overhang, but I can’t do that because the coop/run is going to fit very snugly around our magnolia tree. The tree leans to the right because our tiny yard used to have...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Thanks, that’s what I figured! And yeah. It seems like everyone is trying to get rid of wood chips! We are using them to prevent invasive blackberry overgrowth in a couple places already. We requested a big truckload through chipdrop for that project; not sure if that’s useable for chickens as...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Thanks! Thats not a coop design, it’s for the run, when I said 6ft I just meant height and not length or anything, haha. I had chickens before back in Louisiana but the weather is different- it rains hard when it rains but Seattle has this all day wet nonsense all winter that just soaks into...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Yay, gardening talk! I still haven’t planted our garden beds yet; we dug out a terrace garden into the side of a hill with our neighbors last weekend. The soil here is clay and rocks and garbage, so we had to dig deep with pickaxes to make sure we could put in enough garden, topsoil and manure...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Apologies! Let me doodle what I mean. So I want the walls of the run to be 6ft, with an angled roof for additional headroom. The back side will be along a wood panel fence. The right side is where the coop will be located and will be mostly solid (except a 2ft high section at the bottom)...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Ah, yep, I read about how they stand in the rain, haha. My plan was to have a full roof over the entire run and only turn them out to the whole yard on nice days when they’re supervised. Our neighbor refuses to keep her cat inside (which would be ok if we lived rural, but we are right off a...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Any of yall keep Silkies in the Seattle area? My kids want to get some of those new fangled EE/silkie crosses from MPC, but the best window for us to get them is late August. I am worried that with them reaching turn out age in Oct/Nov it’ll be too cold and wet for them as they’ll be pretty...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hey y’all, sorry to interrupt - Been bouncing around the forums for a while now as we pre plan our chicken game for either this spring or the next! My current issue is that the kids want silkies, I want laying hens who may have decent conformation if the kids get involved in 4H, and my wife...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Yeah, our run would be up against our back fence and due to how bad the avian flu has been, for biosecurity purposes we intend to build a roof with an overhang and panel in at least one side. Well, the kids will be delighted to know that silkies may be back under consideration. :idunno When I...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Holy cannoli. That’s impressive. Dang, that was my main reason not to get them - I think they’re delightful, and while I’d love an fancy rare breed or a bigger layer, we are urban and a smaller breed of chicken makes more sense… Where did you get your silkies from? Ah, yeah; that would be an...
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    Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

    Hey, sorry to interrupt - my kids want silkies, and I see the opening post indicates that theirs laid 5 eggs a week…did they mean 5 eggs total between the 9 hens?! Or each hen laid five (seems significantly less likely, haha). For context, I had silkies before; two roosters, a splash and a red...
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