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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    Surprise! Good news! My chickens ended up at the local animal shelter! I'm not sure if a neighbor called them because they didn't like the chickens or because they thought it was for their well being. All I know is they got called and the area they picked them up at matches my area. I got my...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    Update: Unfortunately, a couple days ago, they didn't come home at the end of the day. No idea what happened to them. No sign of feathers anywhere along my side of the street that they roamed. They never went far, the farthest they would go is 5 houses down the block. But I looked all along...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    I said urban but really its more suburban. On google maps, I'm in a sea of neighborhood streets and houses, just a few minutes south of the actual downtown tall buildings. Its a blue collar neighborhood, so the lawns tend to be more "natural". Off topic: Everywhere I've moved to, I try to...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    So there are two dogs. A black lab and a pitbull. Both of them would chase and corner the chickens, and then that's it. They seem to not know what to do once they corner them. They try to play with them and get bored and then ignore them. This is what their owners told me and then tried to...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    They were already healthy. The vet said so. However, they are now even more healthy. It is obvious from the changes in their eggs and comb color.
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    https://www.wideopenpets.com/austin-texas-will-pay-you-to-raise-backyard-chickens/ Also here's some other things to compare to: https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2016/10/wild_chickens_in_detroits_4th.html...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    Thanks for your comments. My two chickens are red stars. I get 2 eggs every morning. They faithfully still use their nesting boxes. They come home at dusk and sleep in various places in my yard. I have spoken to every neighbor that they have ventured to, everyone loves them and does not want...
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    Coopless and I let my chickens free range the neighborhood

    I started an experiment a couple weeks ago. I let my two chickens sleep wherever they want, unprotected. They still go into the coop just to lay eggs in the nesting boxes every morning. I live near downtown, we have possums here, but no raccoons. There is a large possum that comes through the...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks PirateGirl and everyone else. Just wondering, but does anyone go coopless, no coop at all? I could keep my coop and just let them sleep wherever they want. They still go inside to use the nesting boxes to lay eggs. Has anyone done this before? There is a large possum that comes through...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    Thank you. Yes it is a damp area. The dark strip of land is the wettest and takes the longest to dry out. But the weird thing is, the dry strip of land along the fence is usually dry or will be the first area to get dry in the whole yard. This dry strip is their favorite dust bathe area: That...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    From that link: "If all you use your coop for is to provide a safe place for them to sleep and you commit to getting up when they do 365 days a year so you can open the pop door, you really don’t need much space in the coop itself. " Yup. That me. I let them out just as the sun comes up. A...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    keep in mind they LOVED it when we first brought them home. Sometimes they would just hang out in there. They only started disliking it less than a month ago when it started getting too dirty. And after cleaning it they still dislike it. I hear you guys on space requirements but then why is this...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    Ok. So the enclosed outdoor area (the "run"?) is 6' x 2.5' of usable floor space minus the ramp. The enclosed area is 2' x 2.5' - minus the divider walls taking up floor space.
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    I have been confused about the naming of things. The enclosed section (as seen in my profile pic) is just two nesting boxes and a little rectangle area with bedding for them to wipe their feet before going into the nesting boxes. This area is fine, no issues whatsoever here. Yes there's two...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    are you looking at the right pictures?
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    Why does it have to be a wood floor when raised up? I was planning on just putting the whole thing on stacks of cinder blocks. (It already has a floor made of hardware cloth) Yes it has a roost bar, and they use it, they sleep on it at night. The nesting box has a lid I raise up to grab...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    The cord is for the light bulb in one of the nesting boxes. I stopped using it because I was told it doesn't get cold enough here in Austin, TX (the coldest nights get to maybe just below freezing)
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks for the replies. I'm pretty sure they don't have a lice/mite problem anymore. The bald spot regrew new feathers and they are no longer scratching their heads. What do you think?: This is exactly what my gut is telling me to do. what? The other thing is, the food gets on the ground...
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    My chickens don't like my coop! What am I doing wrong?

    They used to always go in their coop at night by themselves. I was doing the deep litter method by just adding fresh shavings on top about twice a month. But then I ran out of shavings and kept forgetting to buy more and I guess I let it go for too long. It started to smell bad and the chickens...
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