building first coop

  1. D

    New Member to Chicken Math Annonymus

    07.31.23 1st step to chicken math is acceptance. Spent nineteen hours tearing this bad boy down in some pour ladies backyard. She brought us coffee and blueberries and smoothies. I severely underestimated what it took to disassemble a playhouse. Which is having me reconsider how this thing is...
  2. FunClucks

    Have the chickens, now I need a coop. Please help!!!

    I have 8 baby chicks, maybe a week or two old (got them from Rural King right after birth). I had a pre-fab coop with run picked out, and was planning on adding another big run to give me 80 ft of ground space, but reading on here realized that there wouldn't be enough space in the coop area...
  3. chicken-dad

    Will Your Coop Stay Warm Enough?

    I constructed my coop in early fall, excited to house four new 28-week old red sex-linked chickens. However, with the coldest nights of the Maine winter soon approaching, I began to worry that the henhouse wouldn't be warm enough for them. I could have gone the easy route, and purchased a...
  4. CrazyTownChick

    Slightly panicked: Starting to build our Coop...just got 13 Chicks!!!

    Yes, we know this is bass-ackwards; we got the cart before the horse or the chicks before the coop. Whatever. But Friday afternoon we brought home from Tractor Supply, 13 two-weekish old chicks and set them up all happy in the brooder (4 x 2.5 ft metal trough). Oh are they hilarious to watch...
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