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iwiw60 said:
gander007...sorry, the pic of my coop kit is misleading...I don't live in the big city...far from it! LOL I live in rural Central Oregon, but the place I live at doesn't give me much room at all. Sorry, that pic was misleading...not a pic of my place (from the website)!
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Oh the pic you put up is a sale's add got ya ,,, the palm trees did look more like Southern California
but I am not one to say what others might put up for street art and would hope to see more Red Woods
in a State like Oregon .....

Nice pic though and I hope it turns out to be a great coop for you ...

one question is that left side over hang where the chickens are to lay the egg's ??
 
The question is, are they "just" blackberries or do you have Marionberries, lol. My mom still lives in Oregon and she sends me a package of marionberries every year so I can make DH a marionberry treat for his birthday (pie, cheesecake, etc) he'd think he had died and gone to heaven if we had a patch of THOSE in our back yard.
 
gander007 said:
Oh the pic you put up is a sale's add got ya ,,, the palm trees did look more like Southern California
but I am not one to say what others might put up for street art and would hope to see more Red Woods
in a State like Oregon .....

Nice pic though and I hope it turns out to be a great coop for you ...

one question is that left side over hang where the chickens are to lay the egg's ??
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Yes, that's the nesting box. The lid pops up..there are 2 nesting boxes inside which should be plenty seeing as I will only have 3-4 hens. BTW, I learned something new (to me anyways!) today...when I put the chickens out to their coop from the brooder I should block the nesting boxes so they can't "get cozy" until around 18 weeks old (or whenever I see them wanting to actually lay). Learn something new everyday!
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Thanks for the welcome everyone! We've been up at the barn finishing the lid for the brooder and then got started on some other projects.

In answer to some of the replies:

The rooster living to 11 years was likely due to his sheer cussedness. He was mean, mean, MEAN!

The blackberries are the invasive Himalayan variety. Sometimes they have big, sweet berries and other times they're hard and dry. Either way, the property had been abandoned for 8 years before we bought it and the barn was getting close to being grown over. Other parts of the property are completely impassable unless you're wearing a suit of armor.

This is the covered area outside of where the coop will be:


That pile is all of the blackberries I cut down when we first bought the property. There are still some hanging from the roof where they grew between the beams and roofing.You can see the solid hedge of blackberries growing just beyond the grassy area. The hedge goes around to the front size of the barn and had grown all the way up to the barn itself across a cement area. We cleared all of that back too and can now move around the barn more freely:

 
bramblefir said:
Thanks for the welcome everyone! We've been up at the barn finishing the lid for the brooder and then got started on some other projects.

In answer to some of the replies:

The rooster living to 11 years was likely due to his sheer cussedness. He was mean, mean, MEAN!

The blackberries are the invasive Himalayan variety. Sometimes they have big, sweet berries and other times they're hard and dry. Either way, the property had been abandoned for 8 years before we bought it and the barn was getting close to being grown over. Other parts of the property are completely impassable unless you're wearing a suit of armor.

This is the covered area outside of where the coop will be:


That pile is all of the blackberries I cut down when we first bought the property. There are still some hanging from the roof where they grew between the beams and roofing.You can see the solid hedge of blackberries growing just beyond the grassy area. The hedge goes around to the front size of the barn and had grown all the way up to the barn itself across a cement area. We cleared all of that back too and can now move around the barn more freely:

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Oh now that looks so nice with the trees in the background but a lot of work to remove
the berry briers that I have not hade to do in 40 years but remember all the work that is
involved in such work
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Quote: When I lived over outside of Grants Pass I remember the huge water flumes that started above my place and straight down to the Rogue River....you talk about BLACKberries!! The picking was horrendous. I would wear double long sleeve shirts and high boots, talk about hot in the summer. But what was nice was the little sprays of water that would be leaking out of the flumes, cooled me down! I used to pick blackberries the size of silver dollars....ah, those were the days!
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iwiw60 said:
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When I lived over outside of Grants Pass I remember the huge water flumes that started above my place and straight down to the Rogue River....you talk about BLACKberries!! The picking was horrendous. I would wear double long sleeve shirts and high boots, talk about hot in the summer. But what was nice was the little sprays of water that would be leaking out of the flumes, cooled me down! I used to pick blackberries the size of silver dollars....ah, those were the days!
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You telling the story of picking blackberry's takes me back to my childhood in northern California
but we use to use boards and steep on them to crush down the briers to get at the big ones and
just repeat the process till our buckets were full so our mom could make jelly or blackberry pie's
but with 8 kids she had a good start on everyone else .......
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Those were the day's ......
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