3 sided coop

[lil'chickies]

kdcrews- what did you get pink eggs from?? Are they real? Just curious.

 

[kdcrws]

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see if it will let u see it on here. In the winter they put a back and sides on it

 

[kdcrws]

mu Buff Orp girls lay a pink tinted egg. They're real

That was the first bakers dozen of eggs we got.

 

[lil'chickies]

I thought Buff Orps laid brown eggs??? Now I'm super excited to have them laying!! I love all things pink in a houseful of blue!!

that my babies lay me some pretty pink eggs in a few months!!

 

[kdcrws]

mine are more of a tinted look than brown.

 

[cmom]

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Electric wire is nice (especially if you don't hae small children around) but I would suggest considering it the cherry on top, not something to rely on. All electric fence goes dead *sometimes*, and predators can be quick to figure it out. If "horse fence" means either 2x4 welded wire, or that really expensive diamond-mesh stuff, that will work well as a run fence (tho I'd back up 2x4 mesh with some 1" or 1/2" chickenwire run inside it along the bottom 2-3' of the run if you want to be maximally safe vs. reach-through)... then that should be fine. If you mean anything larger than 2x4 mesh though I wouldn't trust it against chicken predators.

JME, good luck and have fun,

Pat

I agree with pat.

 

[snixter3]

check out my page, we have a 3 sided coop that we attached to our shed. It used to be hog barn.

 

[lil'chickies]

That coop is really nice. I like the way you did a converted a-frame style!

 

[snixter3]

thank you. We got the roost and nesting boxes in it today and started framing the tracker. I put the roost on one end and the nesting boxes on the other that way they have the entire middle to scratch around.