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Would of never guessed! Just bought that sticky fly tape...now off to get vanilla car fresheners! Quote: Try putting a whole bunch of vanilla, Christmas tree car air fresheners in and around the areas where files are a problem. People on BYC swear by them. Strange but true!

Quote: There might be enough room...I will have to check. I think I understand your post...hubby wants to know if the roost has to be in the coop or can it be outside somewhere? Your chickens will enjoy an outdoor roost, but will need an indoor roost also, if possible.Will the chics be able...

I think I might be out of headroom. I'm going to see what they do tonight and then go from there! Awesome coop by the way!!! Quote:

We have our first egg!!! So for sure we have one egg laying hen! But it was in the walkway area...not the lay boxes. lol! And so far none of the chickens have used either roost. lol! But maybe later. Now if I just knew which hen it was! lol!

Sorry, I'm a bit confused. I have the lay boxes, on top of that I have a place for them to roost & then there is a lid on the very top. Am I missing something? As far as neting or a top to the run...I get that but my sister-in-law has an open run like we do and no problems as of yet. So much...

Okay....I've added pics of the roost! Thanks a million everybody!!!

We are putting a roost board on top of the lay boxes with a 2 X 4 for them to stand on! So problem is solved I think! Quote: Here is what you find if you go to the top and select coop designs, then small coops: https://www.backyardchickens.com/chicken-coop-small.html These might give you...

I live in Southern California so it's hot most of the time. Quote:

How can I tell for sure if they are roosters? I can see that the red thing (sorry...can't recall at the moment what it's called) is bigger on two of them....so I'm assuming that's how you figured it out. I heard they will make noise all day long if they are roosters and these ones seem no...

Thank you! My hubby said he has ventalation slots on the top & bottom of the coup. We have now put a roost outside for them...I guess now I just need to figure out a way to put a roost on top of the lay boxes for the inside. My husband said out in a farm they don't have any of that stuff and...

Quote: How much headroom would they have if you put board over the nest boxes and then they sat on the board? If there is enough room, what you can do is use that board as the "poop board" (do a search for poop board on this message board) and set a 2 x 4 turned so they sit on the wide part...

Oh boy...we've been had! lol! I had a bad feeling about this person but it was close to home so that's where we got them. Kind of frustrating but that's what you get when you do something with little research. But they do entertain my children which is great! I have no idea how old these...

Yes, I am planning to get another waterer...next week when the restock them at our feed store! No, we have no place for them to roost! Ugh! I just thought we needed the boxes for them to lay eggs. Should we build some above the lay boxes? What exactly is a roost so we know what to build!

Hello everyone! I have wanted chickens for awhile now and my husband finally built me a chicken coop! We bought four chickens off of Craigslist and everything is up and running! But now that they are here I have many questions! Like what kind of chickens did we buy as we didn't bother to ask...