Very nice coop!! I think you did a great job. Yours gives me many useful ideas I will need when I do mine. Will you have an attached run for your girls?
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Alright, I don't mind telling y'all that I have MAJOR coop envy right now! I'm just going to have to keep tweaking mine a little along. Here's a picture of a few girls on the inside:
The roost I have on wires now so I can slide it back and forth when I need to get in and clean. There are too many nesting boxes, but I haven't decided which to leave. I'd like to leave the ones on the opposite end and empty the space nearest the access door to use for a ladder roost on hinges. I'd also like to add hardware cloth around the top for extra ventilation, but I haven't figured out how to get the roof off. I'm actually having quite a bit of trouble taking the boxes apart. Sweating and swinging a mallet got me nowhere.
This is the view from my little canopy gazebo. Not too shabby!
Omg. I found a dead peep yesterday. One, first one in a looong time. It was on its back, guts set next to it. I thought it died and the others ate at it, ew I know but saw no breech on wire run, netted from top and these 50 peeps are 3 ft off the ground in a brooder inside the protected run!
Today I go out and 5 are dead, upsidedown and partially eaten only now all survivors are scared to death. They've been secured but what's eating them and not taking whole peep? Leaving it there after a few bites
Whoa, Angel. Did you figure it out? BTW, did you ever find out why your pet hen died?
sounds like a mink, maybe a snake, the evidence points to mink or something of that nature, snakes hunt day and night, just a few images of mink killsBlondie died of heat stroke we assumeno injury, clean necrocropsy and intact neck (look like her neck was snapped when I picked her up but LSU said wasn't broken. I had always thought the ameraucana had better heat tolerance but I lost both to heat
As far as the chicks...lost 5 more this morning and they were moved into a coop, in a brooder :'( it was carnage. Whatever it was skinned the heads and sucked brains of 5 chicks and left the restI have never seen anything like it. Put 2 traps out with tuna and catfood. Thinking of live baiting I'm losing so many to this....ug family forum....this....Bahhhh! Thing.
I released the chicks. They are ranging now with the other 50 - 3 week olds. The brooder was located in the coop, 3ft off the ground with 50 loose chicks (3 week old) in same coop. I feel like I served up a box of can't escape peeps to a predator. They're safer obviously loose with the ther chicks
I'm so frustrated. We don't have loses now THIS thing is wasting them even. How big could a brain be? If they're going to kill a chick they need to eat the whole thingwhat a waste all around. So mad.
Blondie died of heat stroke we assume no injury, clean necrocropsy and intact neck (look like her neck was snapped when I picked her up but LSU said wasn't broken. I had always thought the ameraucana had better heat tolerance but I lost both to heat
As far as the chicks...lost 5 more this morning and they were moved into a coop, in a brooder :'( it was carnage. Whatever it was skinned the heads and sucked brains of 5 chicks and left the rest I have never seen anything like it. Put 2 traps out with tuna and catfood. Thinking of live baiting I'm losing so many to this....ug family forum....this....Bahhhh! Thing.
I released the chicks. They are ranging now with the other 50 - 3 week olds. The brooder was located in the coop, 3ft off the ground with 50 loose chicks (3 week old) in same coop. I feel like I served up a box of can't escape peeps to a predator. They're safer obviously loose with the ther chicks
I'm so frustrated. We don't have loses now THIS thing is wasting them even. How big could a brain be? If they're going to kill a chick they need to eat the whole thing :/ what a waste all around. So mad.