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  1. K

    <UPDATE Resolved!> Quick question: New Run Build, Post Depth

    I’m building a 10’x20’ lean-to style run using 4x4 10’ and 12’ posts. Can I bury them 2’ or do I need to do 3’? And if I do 2’, I need to use concrete? I don’t want this structure flipping in any windstorms. Thank you!
  2. higgy62

    Outgrowing Brooder, and bad habits / questions

    Hi All. I also have a few questions, similar in nature regarding roosting in the run and/or in the coop. But I have other questions as well. Specifically, integrating the girls to their permanent home. The questions are at the bottom, but i have to provide the back story and current...
  3. Crazychocolatedog

    Coops finished, run is built...newbie starting out with 3 +2

    hi, I’m such a short time, it’s been a journey. We are first time chicken owners. We started out 7 weeks ago with a brooder box of 5 chicks, 3 days old. 2 were roosters, so I traded for 2 chicks that are a week or so younger than mine. I’m not happy with the type they are, unknown breed, I was...
  4. C

    Egg Strike After New Run?

    Hello! We have 15 chickens and now that the weather was starting to get warmer were getting about 4 to 5 eggs a day (some hens are older and some just starting to lay). Our hens were free range, but after a bobcat stole and ate 5 of them within two weeks, we built them a fenced-in run. The...
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