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    Wonder if coop setup is what is attracting rats?

    Would you consider adopting a cat? That would solve the rat problem. We have a cat who catches all sorts of small rodents all the time. My neighbor was recently complaining that the voles have been eating her lettuce and other veggies in her veggie garden all summer, and asking me if I had...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Thanks again Gallo, I'm gonna go for the wood chips! They are not at all slippery, so that shouldn't be a problem. Tracydr, I'm sure you've considered Northern Arizona - 83 degrees today in Flag! And the medical center here is first-rate, in my opinion. I also lived in WY for a short while...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Thanks Arizona Chicken! Gallo - they are pretty smallish chips. When they cut down a tree they throw the smaller branches in a chipper, the result is a chip approximately the size of, say, a quarter on average. Someone advised against straw as being too moldy, which is probably great advice as...
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    Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ

    Thanks for the info about the hay, (which I probably meant straw...not much of a farmer here, yet). We don't have much of a dust problem here, snow problem is more like it! Then again, I've never had chickens, so maybe it's about to get dusty too?! I think I will try the wood chips. They will...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Just getting ready to get some chickens here in Flagstaff! Hopefully will get them at the livestock auction at the fair in a couple of weeks. Desperately trying to get the coop ready in the meantime! Has anyone used ponderosa pine wood chips instead of hay or straw to cover the floor of the...
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    Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ

    Thanks for the welcome weimarmama! LareePQG, found the AZ thread. Just figuring out how to navigate around here, thanks for the tip! I have a ton of questions as you all can imagine, next one involves local ponderosa pine wood chips, as in: can I use them to cover the ground inside the coop...
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    Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ

    Thanks kidcody! Okay, is it ok to use something like silicone chaulk to help make it waterproof? Or would that make the chickens ill? Thanks to anyone in advance who has any advice! Appreciate it!
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    Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ

    Hello, Getting ready to get some chickens! A friend recommended this forum. I am in the process of converting an old play fort into a chicken coop. I have a question: does the coop need to be totally waterproof? We get a lot of rain and snow here. I've found it is harder to convert something...
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