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CharH said:
We are new to chickens. We just set up a small coup, 4-6 chickens. Purchased some straight run Easter Egger chicks, we got 7 incase of any failure to thrive incidents. They are now 5-6 days old, thriving so far. Fingers crossed.

We are here to learn, and find answers to some of our questions we may have.
The Hubby and I both work from home, he is a computer tech and works with major hospitals and various other large corps throughout the USA. He likes to build things. His Step Dad is a contractor and he worked with him in his younger years. My business I own is actually in Canada and we have a great manager that keeps everything going and afloat. We are in a good position to have chickens. I enjoy doing graphics, love the outdoors, and our family with 9 grandchildren.

It took as a while to figure out some of the basics and built a coop already and yes we have a hardwire cloth lid already for when they decide they need to try to escape for any adventures. Figuring out the last few things on it, to include what to put down atop this sb2 gravel, many have suggested sand. Our small 1.3 acre lot is bunch of rock (you can't dig without hitting tons of baseball to basketball size rock) and a whole bunch of clay so we knew we needed drainage or we would have a mucky mess after leveling the ground. We live in a small rural area, and have many master chicken folks in the neighborhood.
Throwing up a picture of the progress we have made on our small coop and the brooder box we have right at the moment. The hubs is already talking about an addition.
We'd like to free range but we have way too many dogs on the loose, racoons which he has trapped prior and taken for LONG boat rides down the lake to drop off on an island and... lots of hawks. He's talking now about doing a large hardwire cloth pen area? Our concern there is hawks. We don't have any solid plans as of yet. I guess those plans will come to fruition as we learn more.

I'll be on the lookout for more Arkansans.

Thanks for having me..
Char
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Great looking coop Char. Good job hubby, looks sturdy I agree with all go bigger. You will have some roos in that straight run prolly too many for small flock. I covered my run with barn metal to protect from feral cats and avian flu . You guys will do great with chickens keep us updated as chicks grow
 
CharH said:
We are new to chickens. We just set up a small coup, 4-6 chickens. Purchased some straight run Easter Egger chicks, we got 7 incase of any failure to thrive incidents. They are now 5-6 days old, thriving so far. Fingers crossed.

We are here to learn, and find answers to some of our questions we may have.
The Hubby and I both work from home, he is a computer tech and works with major hospitals and various other large corps throughout the USA. He likes to build things. His Step Dad is a contractor and he worked with him in his younger years. My business I own is actually in Canada and we have a great manager that keeps everything going and afloat. We are in a good position to have chickens. I enjoy doing graphics, love the outdoors, and our family with 9 grandchildren.

It took as a while to figure out some of the basics and built a coop already and yes we have a hardwire cloth lid already for when they decide they need to try to escape for any adventures. Figuring out the last few things on it, to include what to put down atop this sb2 gravel, many have suggested sand. Our small 1.3 acre lot is bunch of rock (you can't dig without hitting tons of baseball to basketball size rock) and a whole bunch of clay so we knew we needed drainage or we would have a mucky mess after leveling the ground. We live in a small rural area, and have many master chicken folks in the neighborhood.
Throwing up a picture of the progress we have made on our small coop and the brooder box we have right at the moment. The hubs is already talking about an addition.
We'd like to free range but we have way too many dogs on the loose, racoons which he has trapped prior and taken for LONG boat rides down the lake to drop off on an island and... lots of hawks. He's talking now about doing a large hardwire cloth pen area? Our concern there is hawks. We don't have any solid plans as of yet. I guess those plans will come to fruition as we learn more.

I'll be on the lookout for more Arkansans.

Thanks for having me..
Char
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Welcome to BYC!!
 

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