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CorvetteTom

CorvetteTom

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I'm new to raising my own chickens but spent a lot of my youth on a small farm. I'm a farmer at heart and trying to get to where I can buy a bit of property and raise some livestock for personal use. I'm starting with chickens for egg laying and possibly meat later on as I learn. I picked up my chicks at Rural King today and placed them in the 50 gallon Rubbermaid container with a heat lamp. Water and food trays are clean and filled, so I'm off and crawling!

After researching breeds (mainly here on BYC) and what I expect to accomplish, I chose 3 Barred Rocks and 3 Rhode Island Reds to start. In the next week or so I am building a coop and yard for them.

Glad I found this site.

Tom
 
Glad you found your way to BYC - happy to have you here
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Welcome, CorvetteTom. How soon will you have your property, and in what part of the world do you live?
BRs and RIRs are good layers. Will you be moving your new coop when the time comes?
 
Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for the link TwoCrows, I am in for some good reading.

I am preparing to sell my home in the next year and watching for some acreage to come available. I live in Shelbyville, Indiana and will stay around this area when I move. I will be taking the coop with me when I move unless the potential buyer wants it to stay.
 
CorvetteTom said:
Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for the link TwoCrows, I am in for some good reading.

I am preparing to sell my home in the next year and watching for some acreage to come available. I live in Shelbyville, Indiana and will stay around this area when I move. I will be taking the coop with me when I move unless the potential buyer wants it to stay.
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Hope you find what you're looking for. In light of your future plans, here's an option you might consider for your coop — build the walls and roof in modular sections, and large and tall enough to be a garden shed if the buyer doesn't need a dedicated chicken coop. Then if he doesn't want it, it's easy for you to dismantle and take with you.

For cleanliness, you could skin the interior with washable surfaces so conversion to a garden shed would be plausible. I turned the old chicken coop on my property into a firewood crib and was able to do it because I can walk inside without ducking. The old coop wasn't messy or smelly, it was just better suited as a wood crib. See photo. I have no doubt you will build a far better coop!

I decided to build a mobile coop, which you see on my avatar. (I need to change the scene since the snow melted.)


 
Great idea, Hooligans7. Your new coop looks great!

I've been looking over other coops on the internet and going to try to incorporate the best ideas in my coop. I'm just not sure how big to build since I'm not sure how many chickens I plan to maintain.
 

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