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You are very brave. I have never seen a coop site, built so close to a steep hill like yours.
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DobieLover said:
Hello and welcome to BYC :frow 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.
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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.
 
caitbait said:
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!
 

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