New to chickens

[Celticdragonfly]

Welcome! I'm an overthinker like Cindy. If you have fullgrown birds and no coop yet - um, bathtub? I hope you have good adventures with them.

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Glad you decided to join us!

 

[rjohns39]

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

 

[woodmort]

You’ll want windows for sunlight when coop-bound (holes cut out and the cut-outs hinged, covered with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) stapled over the hole on the inside. Or you can do fancy, but obviously the chickens aren’t gonna care.)

I disagree, the hardware cloth should go on the outside, stapled on with at least 3/4" fencing staples with, preferably, wooden lathe covering the outer edges. You want to fence critters out, not the chickens in so if anything pushes against the cloth it will be exerting pressure against the wood of the coop, not staples.

 

[Henry&Friends]

Welcome to BYC until you build a coop, you could throw a tarp down in a spare room (if you have one) and let them sleep in there, and let them in the yard during the day.

 

[CindyinSD]

I disagree, the hardware cloth should go on the outside, stapled on with at least 3/4" fencing staples with, preferably, wooden lathe covering the outer edges. You want to fence critters out, not the chickens in so if anything pushes against the cloth it will be exerting pressure against the wood of the coop, not staples.

Good point. I was thinking about the hardware cloth interfering with the ability to close the window when it’s cold. But I use a pneumatic stapler (on account of I’m kind of a wimp when it comes to stapling) and foolishly assume everyone else does, too. Not so, obviously. Oops! Nobody’s getting those narrow-crown staples out without some serious tools and lots of colorful language and possibly dynamite—but I ought to have said so.