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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hmm, well, the good news is the roost bars come out pretty easy so I could try swapping for a platform. I’ll leave it for now and see if they change their minds. I was hoping that since they’re a cross and not a true silkie they’d behave more like EEs.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    It’s been wet! Been busy away from the forums as for Christmas the wife let me go pick up a 2003 VW Eurovan Weekender. I’ve been working on restoring the cosmetics whilst emptying my pockets at the mechanic, but looking forward to doing some adventuring this summer. Our four EE/silkie girls...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Their sleeping place of choice is smashed up against the 1/4in hardware cloth. I expect it to hold against rats and mice but I am not certain a determined raccoon or coyote couldn’t get through it, and we have seen both in our neighborhood, so we want them to go to the much more secure (and...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    How big are they and what do they look like? I put Revitalime in the coop and in the run and I also add herbs that are meant to repel insects. Edit: the internet says red mites are only active at 48 degrees or above - it’s been in the 30s at night here. This is also a brand new coop and run...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Today my wife put them up at sunset; but the auto door doesn’t close until 5. It’s a Run Chicken door and the instructions claim there’s a button on it somewhere but we are too dumb to find it, and I hadn’t set up the app on her phone yet. They waited for her to go in the house and marched back...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Turns out I spoke too soon about the girls using the ramp. They used it the first night or so, but now they have decided they’d rather sleep in the run against the hardware cloth, which is drafty and cold as well as dumb. I KNOW they can use the ramp because I’ve seen them go up it, so I have...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    We made it back to WA this weekend and the girls did great. They’re using their ramp and I swear they’ve doubled in size! The auto door is working great and we put their bigger food and waterer out in the run. I am jet lagged out of my mind. There is still a bit along the back fence where...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    This coop design seemed really great until I realized how high up this coop is. Hoping they will take to the dang ramp.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    The girls slept fine their first night, and have been up and about in the coop all morning. They elected to sleep in the nest box in a pile instead of using the roosting bars, but I kind of expected that; they actually had a few perches in their brooder pen but they only liked to use them...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I strongly encourage everyone to invest in a $5 disco ball for their coop 😂
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    It has a faux wood texture! It’s not completely smooth. I can wrap it with vet wrap if that’s an issue, I keep a ton on hand for parrot toys and perches.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Well, my logic was that peel and stick is vinyl and in my experience it’s cheap and easy to wipe clean. The floor is just cheap peel and stick too, I am going to put wood shavings over it. We have white silked EEs and even indoors in a brooder pen they sometimes need a spot clean; I figure if...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Dang, idk why that didn’t occur to me, I have parrots! Well I ended up swapping to PVC board in the hope that it wipes down more easily. We got the auto door on, the latch for the coop door, and finished the inside walls and trim. But I had to run a bunch of errands so I’ll be adding the roost...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    It’s the final coop day! The floor is in so I’ve just got to put in roosting bars and the auto door, and then the tedious task of lining the floor with hardware cloth to keep rats out. The girls go in tomorrow, if the paint cooperates. I wanted painted roosting bars but we ran out of our pre...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I don’t know if the solar back up batteries would be sufficient for your needs, but Jackery has a sale and their 3600 watt one plus a solar panel is a little over 2k. Supposedly at 3600 it can run a full size fridge for two weeks. Obviously less when you’re running other systems. Nice not to...
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