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All your answers are helpful and greatly appreciated. Well, my son is going to show chickens. His older sister has shown a pig and is now raising a lamb for show. My wife showed lambs as a child (meh). Frankly, I'm not satisfied with the ignorance surrounding the pig and lamb experience. I'm...

So there's no easy way to go this, is there? I've been pouring over all the coops, and I have more questions than answers. Do you shut the sliding for every night? If so, why so much attention paid to enclosing the run? Why do the nests stick out the side of the building? I can't fathom the...

(Wow, a bluejay? I thought chickens were tough, lol. ) This is so helpful. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing before I experience it. Coop too smelly to be near the house? Coop too vulnerable away away from the house? Will I be up at nights with a .22 rifle to defend my chickens? Oh my...

Thank you all for the information. Honestly, I'm trying to grasp the concept of the coop. Do they ever get to come out of the caged area? Every night when I pull onto my drive there are at least four jack rabbits rooting around. I've never seen any "predators". Is a chicken coop going bring...

I have no idea where to start. I see many coops presented here. I am capable of physically building any of them myself, but I'm looking for the least expensive choice. As in zero dollars. Why can I not just put some chickens in a fenced area and be done with it?