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cottonlouie said:
I am afraid it's too big. We really wanted to use existing space. Our alterations to the horse shed cost $100 . Some of what we used was stuff laying around.
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To big!!! No such thing. If there is lots of space get more chickens!!!
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Ha! We originally planned on 5, number has increased 10.....and the coop isn't even done! We have 5 chicks and some one is giving us 5 hens they find too difficult to take care of. We have a plan for keeping them separate until the chicks are much older.
 
cottonlouie said:
Ha! We originally planned on 5, number has increased 10.....and the coop isn't even done! We have 5 chicks and some one is giving us 5 hens they find too difficult to take care of. We have a plan for keeping them separate until the chicks are much older.
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OK. Have you ever considered turkeys, geese or ducks!!
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We had to take one duck with the 5 hens. I am not happy about it, as ducks are messy and there is only one. But that was the deal.....I love ducks, but not the mess and in northern MN I can't mess around with water pools and hauling a lot of water, etc. So, we will have one lonely duck that won't get to swim much Oct. to May... If it isn't terribly difficult with one this winter I suppose I could get another......
 
cottonlouie said:
We had to take one duck with the 5 hens. I am not happy about it, as ducks are messy and there is only one. But that was the deal.....I love ducks, but not the mess and in northern MN I can't mess around with water pools and hauling a lot of water, etc. So, we will have one lonely duck that won't get to swim much Oct. to May... If it isn't terribly difficult with one this winter I suppose I could get another......
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I am in Minnesota to!!
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We had 2 ducks over the winter and didn't have a problem. I'll post a pic of how I kept it dry
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I am thinking now of how easy it would be to keep the duck in a dog house in the front area of the coop, what I call the coop porch, and just get another duck so there are two......
 

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