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  1. Malita

    New coop for our girls!

    The nesting boxes are 12" diameter PVC pipe. The roosts are cedar branches trimmed from trees on our property and are removable (sit in channel supports). The 2x4 on the floor holds back most of the pine shavings that fall from the roosts and also sits in a channel so it's removable.
  2. Malita

    New coop for our girls!

    We started with an 8x12 shed on cement slab. The shed is divided into two halves - theirs and mine where my side is storage for their feed, pine shavings, coop tools, etc.
  3. View from the front of this 8x12 shed. Door on the left is the coop.There is a divider wall in the middle so the door on the right is storage for their snacks, feed, pine shavings, DE, pitch fork, dedicated chicken coop boots, etc. Both sections have their own window too.

    View from the front of this 8x12 shed. Door on the left is the coop.There is a divider wall in the middle so the door on the right is storage for their snacks, feed, pine shavings, DE, pitch fork, dedicated chicken coop boots, etc. Both sections have their own window too.

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  4. Inside. The board at the bottom is removable - just sits in a channel. So do the roosts which were trimmed from cedar trees on property.

    Inside. The board at the bottom is removable - just sits in a channel. So do the roosts which were trimmed from cedar trees on property.

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  5. PVC nesting boxes

    PVC nesting boxes

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  6. View from the south.

    View from the south.

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  7. The 8x8 section just outside their window and door is covered with corrogated tin that drains outside the run area.

    The 8x8 section just outside their window and door is covered with corrogated tin that drains outside the run area.

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  8. view from the front porch of the shop building

    view from the front porch of the shop building

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    New Coop

    Almost done - I just need to weave the rows of chicken wire together that form their outside run roof. The board on the floor inside lifts out of channels to make cleaning up the pine shavings quick and easy. The roosts also are removable. The nesting boxes are made out of 12" diameter PVC...
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    6 month old Roo - McKinney TX

    Young Roo - complete mutt but a beautiful young boy. Unfortunately he sings too much, too early, and too loudly for our neighborhood. He needs a good home. At 6 months (hatched out on mother's day 2012), he's already about 2 feet tall and around 8 lbs. He's used to an enclosed run half the...
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    Layer Crumbles vs. Poultry Feed

    My girls were spilling lots of the crumbles so I went to pellets. Well after a lot of b*tching and not eating much and no eggs, we're back on crumbles. Geez...spoiled. If they wouldn't spill so much I wouldn't have changed it.
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    Do You Have A Garden, Why Or Why Not?

    I have had small container gardens for a few years for various chili peppers. This is my first full year with chickens and my first year with a real garden. Turns out if your compost has a lot of wood in it (as it does from my local garden center) it saps nitrogen and you won't yield any...
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    My first broody hens

    First it was blondie - my Mille Fleur bantam but we weren't ready for that in March so we isolated her in mesh floor pen and she's no longer broody. Then it was Tiny our curious little Sebright. So, I got her a mixed batch of fertilized eggs on April 18. Just this week, our Barred Rock, Big...
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    Review by '' on item 'Barred Rock'

    Big Mama, our nanny of the flock, is a bit bossy and a bit grabby "what you eating....whatever it is it's mine!" but she's a sweet girl. Always talks to me and always telling me what I'm doing wrong. Good layer - but boots the broody one off the nest as she insists on laying her egg there and...
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    Review by '' on item 'Production'

    Nugget is my chicken....follows me around, always hoping for snacks, wants to see what you're up to ...but it's really about the snacks. She was raised in a small pen with lots of other chicks then free-ranged on 10 acres until I acquired her. Yet she loves people - especially the 'bringers...
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  16. Malita

    Hen chases squirrels

    Unfortunately it happens so quickly that I've been unable to capture pictures or video but I have this 6 month old buff orpington RI Red cross that has this thing about squirrels. If one is on the ground, she'll take off across the yard and chase it up a tree. If the squirrel chooses to run...
  17. Malita

    Roosting out in the run instead of in their house.

    The roost in the run provides additional space on the days the girls don't get to free range. In the summer time, the girls like it as it gets them up into a breeze during the evening 'hang around in the run and snack' phase of the day. I'm not worried about them sleeping outside as I stuff...
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    Roosting out in the run instead of in their house.

    Two of my girls roost outside but lay inside. Thus they darn well know where inside is. During two bad stormms I have stuffed them inside. One was cold so I closed the door. The other they came back out during the storm but after the worst of it. As it is a fully enclosed run (top enclosed)...
  19. Malita

    Heat lamps... You got it or no?

    No insulation, no lights. Walls are either half inch plywood or one inch pine. It's been 28deg F so far in north Texas. 2 hens sleep outside (although they lay in the coop daily) and the rest sleep inside. I worry about them but when I pet them they are warm. We will see what happens when/if...
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    chickens not using sleeping quarters

    Make sure the roosts are the right size and reachable. They will figure it out in time. I have additional perches in the fully enclosed run to give them more room on days they cannot run the yard freely. So now I have two or three that sleep outside the coop but go inside to lay. Only once...
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