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Since it sounds like hatching eggs under our chickens won't work due to size of coop, I'm looking at alternate plans. We have a long and nicely thick tree line through the middle of our property and I'm wondering if building a shelter along its edge would work. It could be a south facing...

Oh, and our current goats are meat goats, though we'd really like to add dairy goats at some point. We need to build on to the goat barn before we can, though. Right now we have Boer does and a Kiko buck, with some mixed children. :)

Honestly, we were thinking of the under-the-deck area more as a shelter than a roost. I was figuring they could roost in the trees, though I understand they're more open to predators that way. We give the chickens a large but enclosed run because we do have plenty of ground predators nearby...

We'd really like to get Guineas (we have a 16 acre goat farm plus 10 chickens and LOTS of ticks), but I'm trying to do all of my research before moving ahead. We've read that it works well to get fertilized Guinea eggs and put them under a broody hen. It sounds like that method has great...