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FYI Someone in Brooklyn, NY is building chicken coops for sale to private owners. NYTimes June 8 Dining Section: Fresh Eggs See article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/dining/fresh-eggs-so-local-theyre-at-your-house.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=chicken%20coop&st=cse

We also have a light in the coop. It helps to pull them into the coop at night. It stays on until 10PM. 25 watt cheap cheap

We have Bufs and RI Reds. About 10 months old. Have laid eggs all winter. With spring and access to worms I thought that we would see a darkening of the yolks to a darker deeper orange. Our eggs still remain yellow. We feed them Dumour feed and kitchen scraps. Eggs are good size and well...

Any exterior roosting bar will resort in your chickens using it as an evening roost as opposed to going inside the coop. Remove the external roosting bar or cover with a tarp at night so they go inside. Better safe than sorry. We had the same problem with our this Spring. Once we covered the...

Many thanks for the input. Agreement with wife is that jungle gym is covered with a tarp at night as she still wants them to have access during the day for their mental health...... Tonight is first night in a month that the chickens are all in the coop before the door went down at 10PM. We...

Our 8 chickens are about 10 months old. Have done well outside in the coop and fenced area. Son built a "jungle gym" of limbs between trees so they can sit during the day next to the coop. BUT, in the last 2 weeks they have all decided to sleep on the outside on the limbs instead of going...

Yesterday it was mucho cold here so I cooked them some oatmeal, added some canola oil, added an egg to the hot mix and after it had cooked, I added some layer crumble to it. Let it cool outside. When offered in a cake pan, they cleaned it up in less than 15 minutes. GONE!

EastTxChick and Bedste, Thanks for the input! Will follow through with your advice.

Hi Chicks are hitting week 4. In the garage in a large brooder box. Doing real well. Plan to transfer to new coop in 2 weeks. :/Question: they have been on crumble since beginning without cocci meds. Do I need to introduce them to crumble with cocci meds before they go out to the coop...

Just went to the site for premier1supplies. Not sure that this fencing is appropriate for your problem. if you are close to a Tractor Supply store they have everything that you need as sited by Opa above : http://www.tractorsupply.com/fencing/electric-fencing/

Address error on the premier supplies.com site for tutorials. its actually: http://www.premier1supplies.com

Many thanks for the input. Very helpful.

Chicks arrived yesterday. doing well in their brooder in the garage. We bought Dumor Starter at Tractor Supply. Eating away. Question: my understanding is that I do not introduce grit at this time. Correct? When do we add it to their brooder box?? When they have feathers?? OR When ???

Thanks for the input. Surprised that others are not using any type of automatic door. Have found minimal comments on BYC regarding these. Would build my own but no comprehension of electrical wiring or diagrams...

Chicks have arrived and resting fine. Coop and fencing complete. Question: automatic door openers. Does anyone have any experience with any of these?? Saw another one from McMurray Hatchery - the McMurray coop controller yesterday on their site. Interesting that it also has a light for the...

Ok Thanks. Will try it and see if it works.

Hi Putting finishing touches on the fence around our first coop. (The coop building guidelines' pictures were very helpful). We have a 9 Ft wire fence. Chicken wire fencing added on the bottom 4 ft as well as hardware cloth from the bottom foot and going out onto the ground for 3 feet around...

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Hi, Our first chicks arrive next week! First group of chicks (6) we are picking up from Moyer's/Pa (Reds: hybrid cross between a White Rock egg-layer type female and a Rhode Island Red male) on Tuesday and the second group (4) arrives via mail the following week from Ohio (Buf Orpington)...

Thanks for everyone's input. I had assume 4-5 max. going with Buf Orpingtons. Will work on reducing teh nesting areas, covering the nests and adding an additional roost. Maybe next year we will "expand" the condo out so that we can add 2-3 more chickens. As for the comment on the...