- Jan 20, 2014
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hi, i'm elisa, i'm just outside victoria, bc, and i'm plotting and planning with my children to build a coop and hatch some chickens. we live in a wild place with predators from earth and water and sky, so we have a challenge on our hands. the children homeschool, and we'd really like to incubate eggs...but they are very sad at the thought of becoming attached to roosters, and letting them go/eating them.
they also want to be very hands on - so the run needs to let them in, or, we'll need a way to take a chicken for a supervised walk. i'd like to free range, but a mink, hawk, eagle, raccoon or terrier will have lunch at my place if i do.
we just want half a dozen hens, possibly of various breeds, though wynedotte is the favourite.
so, we are researching coop designs, and asking around if anyone would like our future roosters!
i would love advice, and am off to immerse myself here. i'll be writing about my chicken project on my site, appleturnover.tv.
x elisa
they also want to be very hands on - so the run needs to let them in, or, we'll need a way to take a chicken for a supervised walk. i'd like to free range, but a mink, hawk, eagle, raccoon or terrier will have lunch at my place if i do.
we just want half a dozen hens, possibly of various breeds, though wynedotte is the favourite.
so, we are researching coop designs, and asking around if anyone would like our future roosters!
i would love advice, and am off to immerse myself here. i'll be writing about my chicken project on my site, appleturnover.tv.
x elisa
and Welcome To BYC! you might also want to check out the Predators and Pests forum to figure out how to deal with all the predators you have around 
