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Best of luck! Can you post a photo of your coop, or dimensions? Is i t something that will break down easily, or be moved easily? I'm also interested in the automatic door. Thanks! Where in VT are you? You can PM me.

I found that my local feed store also carries shavings. They keep them under roof. It’s open, like a lean-to, but dry, with the feed. Poulin, too, the local stuff!

I’ll let you know after we install them! They make a lot of these - mine are designed for large predators. I think they were marketed specifically for bears.

I haven’t worked out bear protection yet. We have some motion detector alarms that we got last year, before chickens, when a bear tore into our 3-season porch and dragged a garbage can out through the window. Truly, asleep upstairs, the noise was so loud I thought someone was knocking down huge...

https://vtfishandwildlife.com/newsroom/electric-fencing-offers-protection-against-chicken-predation-0 Vermont Dept of Fish and Wildlife has issued guidance for chicken owners. Apparently a lot of new chicken owners are losing their birds to predators. Fish and Wildlife issued some...

Thanks, @MilesFluffybutt ! The only way to approach them in our brooder is from above. :( I speak softly, move slowly, and they always come toward me when I come near the brooder. It’s the next step that’s still hard for them. Sometimes they take food from my hand, sometimes not. Meal worms...

I took them out a few days ago in a poultry net feeble enclosure. I didn’t want them to fly so I covered it with a sheet. Then wind! Armageddon! One slipped out. I captured the others, who were all trying to get out, then went to find her. She was trying to get back in. I’m anxious about...

Oh, I’m so sorry. Weasels can weasel in through the smallest spaces, they say! How sad for you. Are you sure you need to wait? I wanted to put tarps down in the bedroom where I have the brooder, but DH is against it. I can’t completely disagree , it’s not a bathroom. But I know they want to...

They dust bathe whenever (and wherever) I add a pile of shavings, and watching it is hysterical. I have one (Australorp) who really goes to town, lying on her side and kicking shavings all over everyone. The BOs love to nestle down and go to sleep in their dust baths. I thought they were cold...

Every coop suggesting I made was nixed by DH. Because, of course, he has no time to build a coop but nothing else is acceptable. So he is building a coop! I love it. Our permanent coop will be attached to a garage, which will be moved up here next summer (it’s across the street and has no...

@MilesFluffybutt - I am behind on this thread! How did things go with Hawke? And everybody: Who has inside knowledge on when the rain will stop? :confused: :he :idunno

@GhislaineDel - Thanks for the WCAX link! Great little chicken wheelchair!

Oh! For crying out loud! Cuteness explosion!

So sweet-looking! Good luck to you and her! I’ve heard several people saying they walked into TSC “just to get feed” and came out with ducklings, chicks, and other impulse buys. I’m avoiding TSC with great self-restraint. #don’twantadivorce

There’s a place in Southern Vermont, I think it’s called the Jamaica Cottage Shop, that makes beautiful sheds and tiny houses, etc. I’m not crazy about any of their coops. But I’ve been thinking of buying their “frame only” package for a shed instead of waiting for everything here to be finished...

What a good idea! Sadly for me, I have to put off getting chickens. DH has many projects that are higher on the priority list, and I’m not sure about my ability to build a coop without him.

I hear you! My beloved kindly lit a fire. Not thinking, I suppose, about the backdraft. My house seems to be effectively insulated against letting the smoky air out. :rolleyes:

Are you folks doing anything special to protect your flocks from the wind? It’s wicked out there today.

Hello Egghead! Orleans County, brrr! Thanks for the advice! I want to get “beginner” chickens, cold-hardy. I’m interested in heritage breeds, but I think it would be smart to start with beginners - someone recommended Orpington. I’m a little wary of chicks in the mail, Tractor Supply, and...

Maybe I’ll be in touch about the Brahmas! I’m in Windsor County. Hospital nurses had a system for tracking medications. I don’t know how it was spelled, but it was pronounced Pyxis. Now, of course, it’s all computerized.