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  1. Quacking ducks

    Chicken/duck bedding?

    I have chickens and ducks. they have separate coops but have the same run. what is the best thing to put on the ground in the coops and run? The ducks soak the run and make it all mud and smell like a pig pen and the chickens dig holes that make me trip when hauling water in. I have heard some...
  2. Piepie

    Adding new chickens

    I have 5 chickens, two are silkies and the others are Easter eggers. One rooster of each kind. 13 weeks old. I know that isn't nearly enough hens so I'm picking up 4-6 more ee hens this weekend and from another person I'm getting 2 silkie laying hens. I plan to separate the silkies into a...
  3. LilHitzel

    When can these kids enjoy their coop??

    My oldest are 5 weeks, my youngest are 4 weeks. They don’t seem to be using the brooder heat plate at all anymore, not even at night. When can these goofs go out to their new coop? They’re getting very bored and stuffy.
  4. C

    Can free range birds have a smaller coop?

    Hi all, new poster here. I am increasing the size of my flock from 5 to 15. In the last couple months, my current chickens figured out how to get out of the run I had fenced in for them (multiple jumps to the top of the coop, then over the fence). I eventually decided to just give them free...
  5. Captkirk40

    New here, just got 10 new chicks!

    Hey everyone! I am brand new to owning chickens. I moved to north Georgia a year ago... And once I found out I can have chickens, I was on the path! To be able to have free range eggs from my backyard seems amazing! I just got in 10 hen "colored egg layers" from TSC that I would appreciate...
  6. Bubblesunrise

    Soap Lake Municipal code forcing me to keep my chickens in their coop PERMANENTLY

    Hello, City municipal code link here: https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/SoapLake/ I am a very frustrated and angry chicken owner. I am working very hard to keep my girls safe and happy. I have a neighbor who had called municipal code on my coop for being too close to my property line. So I...
  7. BoomChickWow

    Help with Coop and Run Materials!

    I was set on using sand in my coop and run based on advantages I had read about and the “Chicken Chick” and others recommendations. Now I am questioning it after reading an article in how it should never be used. I might be overthinking but now I am not sure what to use! I live in a residential...
  8. The chicken nurd

    Building a quail coop and need some advice

    Currently, I’m buildings a third coop that eventually will be used for Coturnix quails and I need some advice to make sure my plan sounds ok to you guys with quail I was planning on building a coop/run set up inside my chicken run, the run is 11×12 currently, and I was thinking of walling off a...
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  9. Plushness

    Chickens Not Using New Feeder

    I have read some forum posts related to this topic, though I'm interested to get an answer for my current situation. I recently made a new feeder, one that is made of cardboard as I found it easier to craft my own than to just buy one. The design I came up with is a trough system, on one side...
  10. Mouthpear

    Auto Coop Door w Safety Feature.

    Ok so I'm not asking for help, I am asking for opinion. Maybe suggestions and/or requests. Things along the lines of what you would want added. Like photocell operated. However I have a different setup for that so I would have to post a new thread for that one. So besides painting it what do...
  11. woknrouen

    Small flying bugs in duck coop

    I went to clean my duck coop this morning and saw it was infested with small flying, jumping black bugs. They were crawling around in the straw bedding. It has been pouring rain for a week straight so the straw in my run was super wet and dirty. The back of the run that turns into the fully...
  12. A

    Coop Renovation Help/Ideas

    Hi all, I have an old coop my dad and I built a few years ago for a flock of chickens we didn't end up keeping for long. I recently got back into having chickens and have owned a small flock now for almost a year. A lot of them unfortunately fell victim to a coyote a few days ago, so I'm going...
  13. Coopin Is a Habit

    Woods Open Air Coop Scaled Down (Can I do a 4 x 10?)

    Hello everyone! I am completely new to chickens and coop building as well as having minimal building experience. I am operating on a budget and have acquired a lot of free lumber to build a coop for my 8 ladies who grow significantly every day. I decided that Woods' Open Air Poultry House is the...
  14. Chicken6000

    1 Month Old Chickens, and I Own 3! Recommendations please! Read Description

    3 Chicks, 1 black, 1 white, and one Is bronze! Starting to think of coops and open areas for them during the day, we currently have small area for them, were set on food, water, food and dispensers. I'm just wondering what kind of coop to get, how big and what requirements. Questions 1. Are...
  15. RADK

    Two roosts - How wide should my poop board be?

    Hello all, working on the interior of my coop for my 12 BSL chicks. I am planning on doing 2 6’ long roosts, one a foot higher and a foot behind the other. I am aiming for 16” from the wall for the back roost. So 16” plus 12” plus 6” extra for in front of the front roost. All said and done...
  16. Isabella's Coop

    Isabella's Coop

    Chicken tractors are fun. As long as you have the equipment or strength to move one, they can be a really great way to move your flock around to free range or just to fence them in with fresh grass. Ours has a section in the back for feed storage and we built it on a wagon base we purchased...
  17. I

    Australorps

    hello fellow chicken keepers me and my wife have just begun our chicken keeping journey, so far we have 4 australorps and 2 geese, and we have 15 more chickens coming in june im going to attempt to build a carolina inspired coop and am a bit nervous because im a dental assistant by trade and not...
  18. themidnightmama

    Coop litter on concrete floor

    Hello! We purchased a home that has three large sheds, previously used for housing chihuahuas, which the past owners bred and raised. I am converting one shed into a chicken coop. My question is about litter options. The shed has a concrete floor. I would like to use the deep littler method but...
  19. I

    Temporary chicken gosling structure

    Hello everyone, I'm hoping to build a carolina inspired coop for my chickens 8x6hen house with an inclosed run all together 8'x30', so far we have 4 australorps and 2 gosling we have 15 more chickens on the way in June, I built this outdoor area for them temporarily while we build our new coop...
  20. C

    Show me your DIY Chicken Coops/Runs/Etc. (Please!)

    We are beginning construction of a better/larger/more quality coop for our flock and would love to see what you fine folks have built so we may pull ideas from your builds, if we may! Show off your work, please! Tell me why you built it the way you did, if it’s predator proof, what material was...
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