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Thanks! I appreciate the comments and the coop has definitely proved to be a very practical design already. The birds are right at home in there and my wife and I don't have to worry about them at night or while we are at work at all. We are starting our third week with them living in it and no...

This build began in the 3rd week of August this year and culminated today. The design was based off of about two month's worth of research and development, mostly gained from this website. This design is for a small backyard flock and thus will not be geared towards those of you looking for...

I'll reply DancingNana but this post really should not be on someone else's coop build project. The rule of thumb for nest boxes should be one to every three hens...that means you will need 9 boxes. Your chickens will not lay twice a day. You will get an egg from each of them every one to two...

Here's a photo of how I mounted mine...not really sure that someone can really design one for you if no one knows where it will be going? Every single person that gives you a suggestion right now is going to be taking a guess at that one. My dimensions are 12"x12"x12" on the short height.

I'm not an old timer or experienced chicken owner at all, but I think as long as you have that tree the birds are going to want to be in it. My guess is that you have a decent amount of space and they have never been confined? Unless that new coop of yours was able to be elevated higher than the...

I don't know where you live but I really don't think your ducks are going to need insulation. They have it built in. Ventilation is important however and you want to look at the means in which your stale air is able to be exchanged with fresh air. Just because you have a larger space with a...

Sounds like one of the five food groups to me

I've been trying to find someone stateside that has been working with them for 6 mo. now but haven't had any luck. There is one local guy who has been breeding d'uccles (mille fleurs) but it doesn't seem like he has any ties to the "Citroen" d'uccles either. That's how you spell the name and it...

I'll proudly say my welcomes as well...you came to a good place! I think one formal item is missing from your introduction and that is pics of your birds! Glad to hear your husband came to his wits and let you start this journey, I think you will find your dog losing space (freedom) and your...

Got to read that fine print on the O.P.'s post more closely...the bottom chick is from a brown layers assortment, not the top.

Right, I'm thinking the top one is the leghorn. The bottom chick I'm not sure with the yellow head, haven't seen one like that before. I'd check into the Welsummer idea.

Here's a brown leghorn chick:

That's a **** good lookin' bird Cody! Congratulations man!

My existing flock of four hens is 14 weeks old and I just introduced them to two new members yesterday afternoon. I let the two new girls free range while my others were locked in the run. I kept them separate like this for 2 hours then let the whole flock out. The new brahma made herself right...

Definitely a cochin, the blue version of my partridge.

Could be brown leghorns

I'm guessing your temps stay fairly steady up there when it rains and you didn't have a 12 week old cochin out there. When we get these storms as the seasons are changing we see temp swings like we did that day from around 105 F to upper 50's in the matter of 20-30 minutes. We are at an altitude...

I took a 2 inch wooden dowel and ripped it. Left me with a rounded 2 inch diameter and a flat side to mount it with so that it wouldn't rotate when the chickens got on it or split if I stuck a screw through it.

Thanks, wife picked the colors and I got the splinters =]

That's what I had figured, lesson learned on that one. They have a nice cozy coop now so we shouldn't have any more problems because I know my wife is loving that breed and wants to breed them when we move to a lot with some land next year (which means I will be building some more coops). My...