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So I bought this coop for my chickens. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-defender-chicken-coop-2020-1168239n?cm_vc=-10005. I originally planned to get 4 chicks, but ended up having to order 10. Coop says for 10-12 chickens. I have all colored egg layers (Americauna, Olive...

I’m sure there are other threads like this but I wanted to see if I could get a good one going. Lessons Learned. What have you done so wrong that you wish you could go back in time and slap yourself in the face for thinking it was a good idea? I’ll star with two. 1. Bird netting for the...

So, this is the number one mistake people make when buying OR building chicken coops. THEY OVER CROWD THE COOP WITH CHICKENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, they over crowd the coop. If the coop is over crowded it can start the chickens picking on each other and pulling feathers...

Hi there, We recently decided to build our first coop- so exciting! However, we were a bit hasty in completing our roof and failed to put any kind of underlayment or drip edge between the OSB and asphalt shingles. Not even a layer of paint to protect the OSB- what were we thinking!? Now that...

So today I cleaned out my coop....fun but also terrible. I sprayed it out with a hose(don't go here if the time has just changed and it will NOT have time to dry out!). So this is the mistake I did today. I am dumb....I even sat there for a minute and just held the hose out for several seconds...

When Wayfair sent me a completely new patio gazebo free when two of the bolts in my first one were bent, I took the leap to seriously override my partner's objections to chickens. Here's the gazebo, and I have a second one I will use as my run frame, sans the fabric cover and raised venting...

Hi all! So I recently got 2 cream legbar pullets and my dad got me this coop for them. As we live in a residential area and don't have a huge backyard he went for a smaller coop. The picture makes it look nice but it is actually quite small to me after getting it and putting it together...

I'm building a chicken coop and I want to know some of the most common mistakes are.

Last night was our chickens' first night in the coop. I walked in this morning wearing my flip flops not even thinking about it. My mind was on how they had fared their first night out. I now need to wash the poop from my shoes. What do you wear into the coop? I'm thinking about getting a pair...

Hello, I am going to have a coop built very soon and would appreciate others thoughts on the mistakes you felt you made in designing or building your coop. I like learning from others mistakes so I don't have to repeat them. Thanks for any tips you'd like to offer.

We are new to chickens, and have our 4 little chicks in a brooder in doors for the time being. We are starting the coop this coming weekend. Im curious as to what some "rookie" moves would be. You know, things we will regret later on down the road, things we wish we had known, etc.

When I built the main living space for my girls, I allowed 18" headroom above the roost, and 18" below for them to use the floor space under the roost. I forgot to allow 6" for the litter. So I decided I'll just use 2 or 3 inches of litter in the coop and rake it out more frequently, and only...

Hi everyone, with the cold weather here last week I really worried about my chicken run which is about 10 feet long. So I had my husband buy me a piece of that 1 1/2 pink insulation board and had him put it up around the side of my coop. Well my girls decided to peak in it and had one piece...

I built a coop this past summer for our six new hens. I took various parts of a bunch of different designs and pictures I found on-line and took into account the size of windows and a door I had on hand and I am mostly happy with how it came out. There is one problem though that I have not...

Yep, about a month ago I broke my wrist while moving my chicken tractor. I had attached the tow rope to eye bolts, which I sank into the ends of the skids. When I was moving it one night, one of the eye bolts popped out, I spun clockwise and landed ON my right wrist. Lesson #1: While dragging...

I am new to chickens, in fact I pick up my first 6 pullets march 26. I have done a lot of research and found that keeping poultry is like keeping an aquarium - several "correct' ways of raising them. As I draw up plans for my first coop, can everyone share some mistakes that I can hopefully...

Hi, I have 5 hens and they are getting along and starting to lay. That part is good. I had to scramble when I got the hens because someone gave them to me with little notice. I chucked together a coop with a dog house and I built a run around the coop approx. 6X8 and 6 feet high. Here are...

Can we start a thread about out coop mistakes, so that new chicken owners don't make the same ones? My chicken experience has been quite successful so far, BUT how I wish I could do it over again and not make these same mistakes... Mine are: 1. Putting the house and run on low ground. I...