Sounds like we are no the only ones throwing money at it. Electricity is in now and fence posts up.
Looks like we are going to keep Elk, or Bison in it with those big posts!
Thanks for the advice and compliments.
We ended up getting the hardware cloth from Amazon. Not too bad on price and shipping was free. Ended up getting 2 - 36" X 100' 1/2" for ~$230.00 to door second day. Will bury it 1' and have 2' above ground. Picked up 32 - 4" PT round posts last...
Thanks for the posts.
Yeah, we (I) am getting out of hand:D My girlfriend said why don't we get 6 or 7 chickens...so, I got 67. Not a joke
So, the coop is 12 x 16 with 15 nesting boxes, 64sqft of roosting area. Not sure how many chickens it will hold?! Might have to change my diet to just...
Great information. Thanks! I am guilty of not introducing our chicks (now 7 weeks old) to the protozoans. They went from brooder to coop this past weekend. Once we build the outside runs...this weekend, we plan on letting them out. Maybe, I should bring some of the soil inside now. They...
We just moved our 6-7 week girls outside to their coop. We have two 250 W lights running 24X7. In the morning when I check them...it is ~ 50 degrees in the coop...much hotter of course under the lights. The all (48 or so) seem comfortable, regardless of whether they are under the lights or...
Hi,
We are in the process of building a coop to house ~ 48 hens. A little too ambitious for first timers, I fear. The coop building is going well....though we are nearing our funds limit. Next we are putting in the runs: 1) 16' X 40' covered for unsupervised , 2) 28' X 40' uncovered for...
I also have 6 or 8 Sagitta pullets that I bought by accident. The store had them mixed up with New Hampshire pullets. I called Dunlap and they said that they received them from a single breeder (unidentified). They did inform me that they are a X from a New Hampshire X RIR, then the resulting...