Hello from West Virginia

[Pork Pie]

Hi Scott and welcome back to the world of chicken-keeping.

Best wishes
Pork Pie

 

[lena_]

Hi Scott! Welcome back to BYC! I'm sure we'd all love to see your chicks, if you don't mind sharing some pictures with us

 

[N F C]

Hi Scott, it's nice to have you here!

If you would like to chat with other members in WV, you can use this link to get to your state thread:
West Virginia

Thanks for joining us!

 

[rjohns39]

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

And a welcome to @Maryloubackyard as well. When you have a sec start a thread here and introduce yourself.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Scott and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

You need a road runner to keep Wile E. Coyote busy!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[sgriffithwv]

Thanks everyone. I have some chicken stories. I guess the two that stand out the most are about raccoons and rats. I'm not sure if treadle feeders work or if they existed 10 years ago, but I will be buying one. My old chicken coop was a 12x16 area that I fenced in with hardware cloth that was under my garage carport, we made a weather protected roosting area and had them for over 2 years. Rats took over, they tunneled out under my garden room and caused the floor to crack. I tried every thing, they ate through wires and gas supply lines. Fortunately the lines were shut off. Other story was more serious, I was losing chickens in my fort knox coop. Concrete footers, 6" treated post as the plat on the footers and 1/2 hardware cloth to the rafters, boards filling spaces between rafters and something was still getting in. Turned out Raccoons were living in the attic of the garage and we did not know it. They were simply coming out of the attic into the coop through the rafter spaces on garage side. Live and learn.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Hiya Scott
Nice to meet you!

 

[sgriffithwv]

Looks like it was eight (8) years ago when I got rid of my Chickens. I had an account when I tried to log in. Seems I had two posts 8 years ago. This time I purchased a commercial coop that is free standing well away from my garage.