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vickiburchard

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Hi, just found this great site! Hoping to learn some new things here. We have seven 3 yr old hens and have decided to get new chicks this year and we are working on fixing up an old chicken house. We are on a shoestring budget so any thoughts or ideas will be helpful. Thank you.
 
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You don't have to spend much money to house chickens. As long as their coop is safe from predators, they have a place to lay and roost, they will be happy. You can use large tree branches for roost bars, cardboard boxes or even laundry baskets for nesting boxes. I have a couple temporary nest boxes I cut from a large cardboard boxes I use when too many broodies are hogging up all the boxes. LOL They work really nice and the birds don't mind as long as they resemble a quite dark box. The boxes just sit on the floor in the corner. When I take them away at the end of the summer, they all go looking for them!

Good luck with your new babies this year and welcome to BYC!
 
vickiburchard said:
Hi, just found this great site! Hoping to learn some new things here. We have seven 3 yr old hens and have decided to get new chicks this year and we are working on fixing up an old chicken house. We are on a shoestring budget so any thoughts or ideas will be helpful. Thank you.
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We built our house out of scrap lumber we got from different people that had left over stuff. we spent 100.00 on paint and hardware and 1 10' 2x4. everything else was recycled. I have Ld tree branches for perches.
my lone hen. the branch/perch.





excuse the mess we are repairing and redoing after the hard winter. that and it was a hurry up and build cause I just came home with a rescued hen one day and it has just grown from there.
 

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