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I have always heard just to tie some old CDs around like Christmas ornaments and they will flash in the sun and deter hawks. Good luck.

My babies were four weeks old today. Momma hen’s first go st it and she is textbook perfecting everything. I’m so proud.

Only when the hens in the higher pecking order make the lowest hen be in there so they can poop on her, but that's rare.

Actually it is very easy to scoop the waste out with the pine shavings once a week. Takes me less than 2 minutes. I have an open bag on the coop floor. I use the clear plastic sheves the newspaper comes in to cover my hands. If I want to hose it down every now and then, I scoop it out and unsnap...

I don't have to remove the dowels. I just unsnap the sling. It snaps around the dowels lengthwise with heavy duty snaps. I built one sling with canvas and Velcro. It did not do nearly as well.

Yes! It's happened before and the egg is safely lying in the pine shavings in the morning. It keeps my coop quite clean.

I made a poop sling out of plastic tablecloth fabric and heavy duty snaps. So easy to take the poop out (it doesn't stick to the plastic) and unsnap to hose it down. I use pine shavings for odor control.

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X2. Very cool.

Very clever. Where did you get the garage doors?

Here's the sign I made from Deb's drawing.

That also keeps chickens from dumping their water.

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Yuk. I am not grossed out by chicken poop and the smell doesn't bother me, but dog poop, hum, not so good. That sign that Deb made: I had it enlarged and made into a professional sign that is in my chicken yard. I love it.

Can you fit it flush to the run and zip tie it instead of flaps for the winter?

I have three ways. On my bunny hutch, it fit the tarp to the back half and wrap it like a present securing it with zip ties. I leave the bottom open but use deep litter hay. Another way I do tarps is cover the top and make flaps out from the coop and secure with bungees. And the last way is to...

Don't fool around with that. Trash it.

Get a new one RIGHT NOW. And throw that thing in the garbage. JS

Haha, Deb, I bought a nice chain saw when I lived in TN and couldn't bring myself to even start it. I finally sold it at a garage sale. Years later after moving to LA I needed to cut a tree down. I bought a new one and studied many videos on YouTube about using chain saws and cutting down trees...

Thanks, Deb. You are a beautiful wealth of info and always willing to provide good solid answers to questions.