Emergency chicken move need advice!

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With only 3 birds, would a tractor work? I'm thinking of, during the day, they stay in a chicken tractor and, during the night, in a secure coop. Could you put the coop you bought in a shed or garage? Since you were there during the day at the burned place, will you still be there during the day and the temporary place? With 3, you could almost put them in a carrier and take them back and forth to a tractor-type setting for ranging during the day and make Fort Knox out of the coop.
 
Raising Larry said:
One of my concerns is critters digging through the wood on parts of the coop that don't have hardware cloth. (Do raccoons do that?)
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Raccoons may or may not do that, depending on how badly they want that chicken dinner. Foxes and coyotes definitely will! I solved (or at least mostly solved) my digging problem by digging, myself, first. My coop and run started life as an existing playhouse/sandbox, so adding a buried apron wasn't a simple option. I dug a trench about 8 inches deep and about 6 inches wide all the way around the set-up (opposite sides in pairs,) filled it with dry concrete mix and hosed it down until I could mix it with a hoe. Once the first pair of sides was set, I did the other two, so it took two days to actually pour. I now have an 8" by 6" concrete wall underground, running all the way around my coop and run. So far, so good ... and my 50 pound dog is a digger!
 
Pretty sure I'll get shamed for suggesting this. This is "other advice" You had a major event in your life and you said yourself We are new 'chicken parents' . Have you considered rehoming these 3 so you can focus on your rebuild?
I know it sounds harsh but it would save you money, time, and worry. Trust me you can get 3 more lovely sexlinks after you move back in. Sure you will miss your first ones but just something to consider.
 
MROO said:
Yup, it was ... but keeping the chickens was/is their way to give that ol' fire the proverbial finger & keep on truckin'. It's "Chicken Therapy " in a seriously life-grabbing manner!
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Bless you, yes - with the loss of the dog we want to keep these chickens alive & happy!! The loss of Jake (the dog) was very hard. Even though he was a terrier/pit bull mix he liked and protected the birds when they were out.

A distant future problem is all the broken glass in our old yard. But we have a year to figure that one out. They are safe from eating any glass right now.
 
Bald Bee Man said:
Pretty sure I'll get shamed for suggesting this. This is "other advice" You had a major event in your life and you said yourself We are new 'chicken parents' . Have you considered rehoming these 3 so you can focus on your rebuild?
I know it sounds harsh but it would save you money, time, and worry. Trust me you can get 3 more lovely sexlinks after you move back in. Sure you will miss your first ones but just something to consider.
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It's not harsh, it's reasonable..... But these chickens in this circumstance have a bigger meaning. (I posted on this below). If they survive the winter, I am looking forward to chicken math....
 

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