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    Egg Cartn - Winter in NJ

    How many chickens do you have? I'd imagine you can't free-range in the snow, and without an additional run they'll be confined to this very small space during winter. I'd be much more concerned about that situation than the cold. Not quite sure how that thin corrugated sheeting insulates or...
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    chicken run material in a humid environment where the soil never dries out and average temp is 56f

    x2 on getting arborist wood chips. A chunky and tall profile bedding will elevate above flood conditions and will generally not hold water if it does flood occasionally. I use wood chips as a base for my setup, but prefer calling arborist directly vs dealing with ChipDrop. I also add lots of...
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    Yeah, you're good with just one box for them. Like mentioned a nest box doesn't have to be in that hole, it can be some other box just hung on the wall somewhere. Use it for storage if you like, that's a big opening and should be able to fit a 50# feed bag through it
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    Making use of a little side niche in my coop/run

    If you're determined to divide it, I would go vertically, which will give you a narrow 10-10.5" wide opening once you factor in the material in between. That's a fairly narrow opening, but might be ok since most chicken doors are fairly small. I'd likely plan to expand the box inside the shed...
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    Secure run and free ranging practices

    I have 1.3ac and used to free range daily and wish I still could, but no longer do that due to heartaches from predator losses. My setup now is a secure covered run attached to coop, with auto door to a larger secure but uncovered run. Door to exit large run for free-ranging, is manual only...
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    Is it hard to cut and add windows to a Resin shed?

    Resin sheds are pretty easy to cut. I'd use a reciprocating saw, jigsaw, or circular saw, even a utility knife could technically work - just measure twice as resin isn't as easy to patch up as wood if you mess up. Instead of weatherstripping, you can use a bead of silicone caulking to seal...
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    T-Post Fence Inspiration

    I did what you're asking, ~10ft spacing and then 3-post corners. If I had the Wedge-Loc hardware, I'd probably have used it, but I just copied what was done by previous owners on other t-post fence corners, and used metal wire to secure the corners. Seems to be working fine, just doesn't look...
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    Care free coop

    Ok so here's a thing about BSF - while yes they can be great at consuming many types of animal waste, it's not advisable to feed BSF back to the animals producing the manure they're raised on. This has high potential to cause weird things like nutrient depletion and degradation, potential for...
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    Tell me what’s wrong with our nesting boxes

    I would add a short lip at the bottom, which should provide more privacy and also keep out that bedding. Something not mentioned yet - right now in late summer/early fall is when a lot of chickens will go through molt and stop laying until their hormones/bodies do their thing. Perhaps this is...
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    Care free coop

    Without any pic, I'd guess BSF (Black Soldier Fly) larvae, as they like to live in compost. They are FANTASTIC at waste consumption and are even used in sizeable operations to process certain waste streams. At one point I was raising some in a tub, on old food and rodent carcasses - the...
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    Shelving under roosting bars

    I would brace the shelves to prevent sagging, probably 1x2 lumber on the perimeter in the tall direction to save on weight vs thicker lumber that will weigh even more. I'd also use the trays on shelf as suggested, instead of moving the whole shelf every time.
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    Do I Need a Ladder? (New to Raising Chickens)

    Why would they need a booster/stool/ladder for the nest boxes, if the roost bars are another foot higher? A chicken that size can jump/fly 4-5ft easily, so my suggestion is add nothing inside. If that's a pic of the inside of this coop, adding more obstructions in such a small footprint...
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    Shelving under roosting bars

    I'm assuming this is a poop board -- is it no longer functioning now that the board warped? Pics of the problem?
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    It's too nice for my chickens.... :(

    That's a pretty awesome goat house! Lots of work to use logs, but if I had all those trees I'd likely be using them too - will you be doing the same? I could see this design being tweaked a little to make it into a chicken coop. This is probably what I would do: - I imagine the porch is the...
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    Coop with “wings”

    Right on. No extra protection for the gable ends?
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    TIL: Fence top roller bars - do they keep chickens in?

    I did this to my extended run fencing because of one particular escape artist. Clipping wings wasn't an option for me, so they can better escape predators if they have to. I used mason string to make two lines above the top of the 5ft fence, the top wire was over 6ft. Worked for a little...
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    Pics of Chain link, reinforced with Hardware cloth

    I'm surprised there aren't many pics of what I thought was a fairly common combo, since kennels and construction fence panels could be used for runs. Is there something specific you want to see? Probably doesn't help much but here's one pic by @Chook-A-Holic, showing how they overlapped the HC...
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    Chicken Run Foundation Over Hardware Cloth

    Glad to hear you'll be making a few upgrades for the snow. Coming outside to see a collapsed coop/run from snow, has to be one of the most horrifying things to see. I still have concerns over the wood coop structure even though it's 2x4 construction - the low pitch of that roof will likely...
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    Digging out a run

    Sounds like one heck of a project. I had to dig out my run for adding HC as well, but I definitely didn't task myself to go down 2ft, that sounds excessive. I did it with lots of elbow grease, rototiller, shovel and wheelbarrow. I went about 6" deep to bury my 1/2" HC, put the dirt back and...
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    Chicken Run Foundation Over Hardware Cloth

    Do you have a bunch of digging rodents and predators in your area? I see you mention changing it up isn't an option, but personally I'd take it out in favor of a perimeter skirt, mostly because it's 1/4" HC used on the ground. 1/4" HC is only 23-ga thick vs 1/2" HC at 19-ga, and with ground...
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