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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Here we are in week 16 of the build..... I think I will build mine, take pics as I go, then come start me a thread. This way I won't feel pressured by my chicken peers hanging around on BYC. Fix the window, will ya? You can borrow my chainsaw, nail gun and level!! My level has an...
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    U.S. Flag RANT!!! and some info...

    It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given...
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    If money was no object....

    Quote: Yes, but I would pay Steve and Jarad to fix the barn up to make it into a coop. Then I would pay Pat to come down and QA it. What's a little bit of money if you can't spread it around amoungest friends????
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    Building an "Old Style" henhouse.....move in day!....... (pics)

    Looks good Steve. I have a coop designed already, but I might do the moat around the garden for the spring and summer. Not positive yet, but I am almost sure the extra cost of fence will be in my budget. Instead of the moat being around the whole garden, I was thinking of making it in a 90...
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    Am I the only 25 year married female that is...

    Raised on a hog farm, went to live in the big city when I was 14 y/o (not my choice). Took me 18 years to get back home to the country. I live on the side of a mountain where I have a fishing pond, my shop, swimming pool ( parana nipple biting blue gills in the pond ) a garden, and 14 arces to...
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Well, I finished my brooder yesterday. I used wood scraps from building crates that we build to put our copper range hoods in when we freight them. All the hardware is from buckets of bolt stuff that over the years has been stripped off other things and set aside for future use. The front...
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Hey Jared, great job so far. I know you look forward to the next couple of months when I start building my coop, Your coop will be finished, and it will be up to you to keep me moving along. I did pick up my wood from the sawmill today but it will do. I wasn't happy that they sawed up my...
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    Building an "Old Style" henhouse.....move in day!....... (pics)

    Great Job!!!!!
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    I was going to warn you about that left window on the north wall. So I called, and called, and called again. I was put on hold 114 times, each time was worse than the time before. During call holding number 17, your call holding might have been outsourced to India, but a gentlemen came on the...
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Not having a nail gun might be a good thing!!!!!
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Sorry, I got it wrong she said. That is the window with our guard dog sitting outside protecting our cheekins from them there coons. Why I didn't think of that, I don't know. Great, now I don't have to call ADT to wire in a critter alarm.
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Quote: I'd expect that you can read a pull tape within 1/4 of an inch Hey, I dunno, it wasn't always that I could read a pull tape. Now about those boards you said that you purchased, that were wrong . Look it's too late now, you have already cut the wrong boards in the first place, which is...
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    Did you go to your local DIY store to get swatches for your cheekins to pick the interior colors yet? Me? Yup, as of a matter of fact, I am going to use a elimination process. After they are 4 weeks or so I am going to lay the swatches on the floor of the brooder for three days. Which ever two...
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    My New Coop! 3/14 Today's progress pic on post #356

    I had to Q.A. it, hens don't lay as well when their coop is outta square. I put a machinist sqare to my screen, looks good. However I will point out, the ink on boards, 3-5-6 has the ink facing the wrong direction. I finished my brooder today, I purchased the material this morning and took a...
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