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Well, I guess I will send my wife back to get one more duck. Maybe this time she will come home with a puppy.

Quote: Point well taken.

Yesterday, I asked my wife to run to town to pick up my new cell phone. Unfortunately the night previous I dropped my phone and the screen shattered. Luckily, we have some very good friends that had the same phone I did so we were able to get it from them. So, my wife heads out to get the...

Quote: I will try and get a better picture of the "screen doors" when I get home. Basically, those are second doors that sit behind the main doors going into the coop so that we can open the main doors on nice sunny days. They sit behind the main doors in the same jamb area and open in the...

Quote: As far a predators, we have skunks, raccoons, stray dogs and even have had a badger out here. I buried hardware cloth around the coop coming out 24 inches to help stop the digging predators. I used cow fencing around the coop run, but plan to add hardware cloth around the base also...

Thank you both. mcjessen, I noticed you are in Idaho. So am I. You are quite a bit further north than I am, but I visit your area of the state each summer to play a little golf. I love that area up there. Thank you for the reply.

Well, it has been quite a few weeks since I posted my "new to chickens" introduction. We have had the chicks in the brooder all that time and they were starting to get too big for the brooder. During that time I have been building the coop. It took much longer than I had anticipated because...

Hello all, Today is a big day for my family and I. My kids finally got their chickens. They are only a few days old. Forgive me if I don't know much about the breeds, but I do know they are the ones that lay colored eggs (the guy at the store told me they are sometimes called easter egg...