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Nice! The pipe is a great idea.

I had planned the attached without the divider (dashed line). I plan to elevate the coop two feet to help provide shade during summer (up to 110 F summer days) plus cover hoops in shade cloth. I may need to reconsider using cattle panels for the run as a divider may prevent me from walking into...

Thank you all for weighing in. I think that my new plan is to divide the coop and run, so it will be a coop that is 3x3.5 and run that is 3.5 x 16. I’ll put a pass through door at either end, so that if the doors are open, the run will form a loop. I’ll put shade cloth on the divider so that...

Our CL have only been laying for a few weeks. Their eggs started as a pale green but have become more pale blue. I don’t have anything to compare it to, but since inside of the egg color is robins egg blue and outside is slightly greenish, I think that they lay with a slight bloom coloring the...

Same, cream legbar x black copper marans roo or they will be copper marans hen x Ameraucana. I think my daughter’s plan after that it to breed the Oliver egger back to copper marans for an attempt at avocado Eggers... I myself am curious whether Ameraucana x legbar would produce a bluer egg...

Honestly, we plan on learning butchering for future unwanted cockerels. We had Marek’s disease diagnosed a few months ago (dealing with all of that set us back in getting this bachelor coop done), so we don’t plan to give away or sell birds. Although we know that our olive Eggers won’t be ideal...

Interesting! Thanks for telling me about your setup.

Thanks for your input. My daughter is 16 so capable of handling herself and deciding whether she wants to keep roosters. Our 9 mo old EE roo and the 6 mo silkie roo both needed human aggression addressed but our methods seem to be working there; our EE is becoming a real gentleman while the...

Uncomfortable to have them penned individually as opposed to in groups? Yes, that is why we wanted to house them together, so that they would have company. However, if that’s not going to work at this point, I’m trying to figure out how to work alternatives...

Thank you for the reply. For individual rooster pens, how much space should each rooster have?

Hi All, not sure that this is the best forum to ask this? My teen daughter is interested in breeding olive Eggers for fun. We have 13 pullets and four cockerels. Currently two cockerels (6 and 8 months old) are in the main coop with 11 pullets (6-8 mo) and six ducks. Older cockerel is boss. Have...