Hello everyone

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska!

 

[Kiki]

Thank you,
No I haven’t ordered any chicks yet. I found a poultry farm near me and we are going there this weekend weather permitting.
I’ll try to post the link for the coop. I hope this is copied right: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07ZHZLD86?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I am so glad you are here now.
Hold off on chicks/chickens. Also...beware of anyone who lets you in their yard to purchase birds. Chicken diseases are nasty and you do not want to start off with one in your flock.
Ordering day old chicks from a major hatchery woudl be something to think about.
You'd have less of a chance (almost none) of bringing home a disease and you have less of a chance of bringing home unwanted males.

 

[Tookie]

Hello and welcome to BYC!

 

[Husky dad]

I am so glad you are here now.
Hold off on chicks/chickens. Also...beware of anyone who lets you in their yard to purchase birds. Chicken diseases are nasty and you do not want to start off with one in your flock.
Ordering day old chicks from a major hatchery woudl be something to think about.
You'd have less of a chance (almost none) of bringing home a disease and you have less of a chance of bringing home unwanted males.

That’s some good advice. The place we were going to go has their chicks listed as unsexed. I had to look it up to find out what that meant.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens, this is a great place to hang out.
Worst case buy a shed you can make that a coop have a few more birds.

 

[Husky dad]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens, this is a great place to hang out.
Worst case buy a shed you can make that a coop have a few more birds.

I was looking at some pictures yesterday of someone who made a coop out of a shed

 

[pennyJo1960]

Add a scrap window or two, Drill holes for ventilation not that will blow on them.
milk crates, cat litter boxes or dollar laundry baskets can be egg boxes.

 

[DobieLover]

I was looking at some pictures yesterday of someone who made a coop out of a shed

Here's another one...

 

[sourland]

Hello, John, and welcome to BYC.

 

[janiedoe]

Hi John, welcome to BYC.
Can you send that coop back? It might hold 2 (unhappy) chickens, but there will be no where to keep their food and water. It certainly won't be safe from predators, and I'm betting the roof will leak.