New member here from Louisiana!!

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mike370773

mike370773

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May 13, 2013
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Hello Everyone!! My name is Michael and am from Denham Springs, LA. I'm another newbie and have a flock of nine 1 month old golden sex link hens and 2 other 1 week old chicks that i have no idea what breed/sex they are (got them from my kid's school from a egg hatching science project).
I've build my own 13'x3.5'x6' coop/run and have posted construction pics below.












I'm proud of my work!!
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And here are my little chickadees..... (10 days old)




and now at 1 month old with the two new 1 week old chicks that i don't know what breed they are....



The older ones love to go outside now in this warm Louisiana weather....



I'll be on this site a good bit asking questions cause i'm no way near an expert when it comes to this so any advise will be very appreciated!!
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~Michael
 
Greetings from Kansas, Michael, and
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! Pleased you joined us! Super looking coop and healthy & happy birds! The only advice I would offer is to put hardware cloth around the perimeter of the coop from ground level up at least a foot. Not sure of your predators but a raccoon can reach through the holes in chicken wire and kill and eat a chicken from the other side of the wire! Some folks even bury the HW cloth to deter digging predators. Good luck to you!
 
You know I had actually thought of that too after I had looked at other coops and how they had their wiring done. We do have racoons around where I am too so i will be definitly investing in some hardware cloth and installing this week. Backup methods for those predators are either to trap and/or shoot 'em.....
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Advice taken!! 1/2 in. hardware cloth all around the perimeter of the coop and a little in the ground.
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