Hello from Oakland!

[drumstick diva]

Welcome to BYC. I'm worrying with the steep slope of the hill, if rain/mud slides would wipe out your coop and chickens with it.

 

[caitbait]

Welcome to BYC. I'm worrying with the steep slope of the hill, if rain/mud slides would wipe out your coop and chickens with it.

given that my home is directly behind the viewer in the photo- if there's a landslide I have bigger problems . Coop is on the same level as my home, 30 feet away.

 

[swampfox440]

So glad you joined , Welcome to BYC!

 

[Hei 20]

Been lurking for a bit as I will be starting on my backyard chicken journey really soon! I've always wanted chickens and I finally bought my first house this summer that has a lot of space (for a city) and I'm very excited to finally keep some chickens! I'm in the process of building a very over-engineered chicken coop (lets just say... my house is practically a tree house on a steep hill with 81 steps from the street to my front door).

I am looking forward to learning from y'all and hopefully connecting with some local breeders!


PS here's the beginning of the coop build: main structure will be 5 x 10ft with a fenced-in free ranging area thats approx. 900-1000 sqft.

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Sorry I'm late

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUN-omenal Flock!

I hope you enjoy BYC as much as we do!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC Glad you joined.
You may still want to consider a wide French drain to divert water around your coop and run.
If you have mountain lions and bobcats, I would run a few hot wires around your setup as well. I use electric poultry netting charged with 10,000 volts with 1.2 Joule output to keep the resident black bear away from my chickens. I've never had a problem with her. She was in my backyard again not too long ago, far away from the chicken pen.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Welcome to BYC!
You feel so good building a coop and putting the flock into the coop for the first time. Good luck and take lots of pictures!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Vickischics]

I'm based in Oakland, in the bay area. Pretty mild winters here. I wish I could keep sheep! I am an avid knitter. Predator proofing here is a MUST. This will have to be a chicken Fort Knox. I have two resident great horned owls I hear every night, and today a very large red shouldered hawk on my deck! I've already seen a mountain lion and a bobcat as well!

I had sheep. But, they are in the Freezer! They said It was too hot here in Florida! Lol. I really liked them a lot but, they taste Great!

 

[Isaac 0]

Hello, and welcome to the BYC community.