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  1. TeePants

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    It’s the final coop day! The floor is in so I’ve just got to put in roosting bars and the auto door, and then the tedious task of lining the floor with hardware cloth to keep rats out. The girls go in tomorrow, if the paint cooperates. I wanted painted roosting bars but we ran out of our pre...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I don’t know if the solar back up batteries would be sufficient for your needs, but Jackery has a sale and their 3600 watt one plus a solar panel is a little over 2k. Supposedly at 3600 it can run a full size fridge for two weeks. Obviously less when you’re running other systems. Nice not to...
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    Hey! I bike through here on the STP. :) I’m sorry you lost power, but your area is gorgeous. We live in Seattle now but I’m from rural Louisiana. It’s nice that we don’t have to drive to far to get back out into the country. Our power flickered here in West Seattle but we didn’t lose it - but a...
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    I think we are going to hit the leak with waterproof RV seal tape; then we will either attach a 2ft length of tarp from right under the roof to the back side of the fence, or do gutters. I think the tarp is probably what we will do for now because it won’t require removing any hardware cloth...
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    Fellow rainy people, is any amount of rain in the coop acceptable? We have been battling drips. We didn’t extend the roof enough because as you can see; we have neighbors. They’ve been cool about the poultry but I imagine they wouldn’t be happy with extending the roof into their egress. We...
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    That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t know if they maybe sold something that could do the same thing. No worries, it’s not like we aren’t sawing things and drilling things still at this stage! I’ll probably add a port for it on the wall above the nest box as I put the insulation in but didn’t...
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    Do you think 1/4in is enough to keep out rats and maybe one very fat and lazy raccoon? Mind you, I’ve never seen the raccoon in our yard, but it’s not like I’m watching all night. Speaking of, if anyone has clever ways to make a hole somewhere to put an extension cord in that won’t act as a...
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    Oh, don’t get me wrong, last time we had chickens in Louisiana my red star sexlink girls would fight over mice and lizards. But these silked Easter eggers.. I dunno, I’m just worried they’re fragile somehow! They are certainly quite dainty. I have kept pure silkies before and a stiff wind could...
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    Thank you! I am a little worried because we opted for 1/4in 23g hardware cloth on the sides - the logic being that I want to also discourage mice, and our yard is fenced, so we mostly end up with mice and rats. We switched to 1/2in for the floor because we couldn’t find 1/4in that was 3ft wide...
  10. TeePants

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I cannot believe how long this project has dragged on, but the chicks are six weeks old now and the coop is almost finished. Putting in the last wall, coop floor, auto door/coop access door, and run door tomorrow. Then all that’s left is HWC for the bottom. We have rats so we decided to deep...
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    Why is it always rain in the forecast when I’m painting? Trying to prime the wood for our coop and it started an hour earlier than predicted! On the upside, we have the bullseye primer on all the run frame done, and half of the siding for the outside of the coop! The interior plywood panels I...
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    Thanks, that’s what I figured! And yeah. It seems like everyone is trying to get rid of wood chips! We are using them to prevent invasive blackberry overgrowth in a couple places already. We requested a big truckload through chipdrop for that project; not sure if that’s useable for chickens as...
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    Thanks! Thats not a coop design, it’s for the run, when I said 6ft I just meant height and not length or anything, haha. I had chickens before back in Louisiana but the weather is different- it rains hard when it rains but Seattle has this all day wet nonsense all winter that just soaks into...
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    Yay, gardening talk! I still haven’t planted our garden beds yet; we dug out a terrace garden into the side of a hill with our neighbors last weekend. The soil here is clay and rocks and garbage, so we had to dig deep with pickaxes to make sure we could put in enough garden, topsoil and manure...
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    Apologies! Let me doodle what I mean. So I want the walls of the run to be 6ft, with an angled roof for additional headroom. The back side will be along a wood panel fence. The right side is where the coop will be located and will be mostly solid (except a 2ft high section at the bottom)...
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    Ah, yep, I read about how they stand in the rain, haha. My plan was to have a full roof over the entire run and only turn them out to the whole yard on nice days when they’re supervised. Our neighbor refuses to keep her cat inside (which would be ok if we lived rural, but we are right off a...
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    Any of yall keep Silkies in the Seattle area? My kids want to get some of those new fangled EE/silkie crosses from MPC, but the best window for us to get them is late August. I am worried that with them reaching turn out age in Oct/Nov it’ll be too cold and wet for them as they’ll be pretty...
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    Hey y’all, sorry to interrupt - Been bouncing around the forums for a while now as we pre plan our chicken game for either this spring or the next! My current issue is that the kids want silkies, I want laying hens who may have decent conformation if the kids get involved in 4H, and my wife...
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    Hmmm, I thought about doing that, but worried that it’d block too much light? sides are still open obviously. I think I’ll try a rain-fly first since that’s pretty easy to pull up on days where it’s not going to be a heavy rain; the little flag-tarp they have is fine for a drizzly day...
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    I hear you. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me that the A-frame would present a problem later with rain; I guess in Louisiana we had our chickens in an uncovered run and they did fine, but the quail do NOT seem to have the same tolerance. Alternatively, is anyone here raising quail who’d...
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