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    Acclimating similar age jumbo Peking ducks with 7 hens/rooster

    Thank you! Love this forum!
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    Acclimating similar age jumbo Peking ducks with 7 hens/rooster

    Picking up a pair of mated 5 month old jumbo Peking ducks soon-I have 7 hens/rooster (RIR roo/mixed hens) of similar age. Ducks can be aggressive towards chickens but more hens is my understanding. Chickens have a 48 sqft house 7ft tall in a 12x12 enclosed run (chain link with HC skirt) with...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    Haven’t had a lot of time to finish it up so literally working at night. Got the linoleum up to line the wall behind the poop board and the bottom (maybe it’s a poop slide board now? 😂). Pardon the duct tape-a pita to work with by myself-wish I had pulled it up to the top for my ocd but was...
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    My 8 week old TSC Flock-let's play name that breed/gender for a few

    Thanks! What I’m guessing as well. I’m fine with any of the breeds as long as the girls are healthy and good with me. :)
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    BTW I realized i posted the roof pic with it not finished aka bolted down so those panel gaps are just the panels sitting. :) It's tightened down well and I've worked on a few spots/gaps from the bends-time will tell with rain coming. I have silicone for a few of the roof screw misses (joys...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    Made some progress. Bending even 29g metal roofing sucks (sledge/2x4). Not the best fit but have cleaned it up some. Missed a few screws to wood but easy fix. Now to have a beer (for size reference of the open air areas) and start on the poop boards and when I get a set of helping hands...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    The problem there in becomes height (aka not hitting my head :)), not to mention returning the galvanized steel and getting 12' long sections. The two triangle areas will be 12" covered and roughly 4 sqft on each end. I could get by with ripping one panel into 16" heights and HC a 6" gap...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    BTW @aart I have your article on how high up open-poop boards and nesting box planning is next. I'm likely going with 2 8' 18" wide poop boards on the length 36" off the ground so in thinking about it more I'll have to add the siding to keep drafts higher up. Of course I can't decide if I...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    Ah I knew I forgot a detail-the overhangs are 8" over the long edges-12-16" on the short ends so I think I may just bite the bullet and rip the pieces for the sides. Though on the right side in the picture it will tuck up under the awning of the shop so that side may do alright. Decisions...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    Time is always an enemy with family and work (and rain). I've made more progress since then but a quick pic. I'm debating if I want to just hardware cloth the last 22" vertical siding on the outside edges vs. more plywood. I'm planning on doing HC for the triangle areas (and cutting boards...
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    My 8 week old TSC Flock-let's play name that breed/gender for a few

    Thanks-could it be a Wyandotte cross breeding/genetic anomaly? I guess time will tell-I'll post back in a couple months with an update.
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    My 8 week old TSC Flock-let's play name that breed/gender for a few

    Got a couple more pics of #2 (one advantage of the mixed breeds is much easier to name-still working on those lol).
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    My 8 week old TSC Flock-let's play name that breed/gender for a few

    Thanks! What I was thinking from reading more about the Wyandotte and looking at pictures. Will check out Minorca as well. Mostly trying to get a general idea of temperaments etc.
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    My 8 week old TSC Flock-let's play name that breed/gender for a few

    So after a family of foxes got my flock of golden comets and we moved I swore no chickens (well mostly my wife). And then my wife decides chickens. So I picked up 4 different breeds from TSC to have some variety in eggs, slightly less egg production than golden comets (even I got tired of...
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    My greenhouse frame retro to coop in an existing dog run

    So a friend is gifting me a speckled Sussex rooster and two hens-one of which is being broody on a cluster while my 8 hens are at the 3 week stage. I’ve started planning out the enclosure of the greenhouse frame. I’m back and forth between my ocd going all new plywood for sides and metal...
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