Hello from Oakland!

[sourland]

Good morning, and welcome to BYC. Good luck in the construction of your coop and the establishment of your flock.

 

[featherhead007]

You are very brave. I have never seen a coop site, built so close to a steep hill like yours.

 

[caitbait]

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.

Absolutely! I was planing on building some small retaining walls and french drains to divert water. The foundation has about 3 in of drainage gravel in it.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

 

[caitbait]

Made some more progress today! Roof will likely be up tomorrow.

 

[RebelEgger]

Hello from Nova Scotia and welcome to BYC! You’ve joined a great and resourceful community! Enjoy your journey!

 

[caitbait]

Roof is on! Clear panels to have plenty of light inside.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

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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Hey welcome to BYC!

 

[drumstick diva]

Welcome to BYC, I am 73 and would never be able to make the 81 steps from street to front door. More power to you.

 

[Sammi_0411]

Welcome to BYC lovely its fab to have you here yes having chickens has totally changee my life in a great way good luck with the build would love to see gradual progress or occ updates