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Zanlm said:
Hello everyone!! Greetings from Edinboro Pa! Hope everyone is staying warm!

I would like to get some input on a chicken coop I'm planning on. I have a section of my barn that is off to its self. I'm thinking of making it in to a coop. It has dirt flooring. And a high ceiling. I want to close it up and use it for all of my chickens.
I have 1 Australorp roo almost a year. 3 leghorn hens, a pair of ameraucanas, 5 silkies, 9 2 month old chicks from my Australorp and leghorns and now 3 1 month old orphs. And of course I want more. Lol it's a nice size room. Big enough for all of them. What do you guys suggest?
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Howdy from Chester Co....

If you are looking for good ideas for coop construction....maybe you could get Fisher, to post some pics on her 'arrangments'.... some nice engineering to keep the coop clean and interesting for the girls to roam around in,,,my two cents....
 
Well folks,

The predators are back...saw a feather pile and blood this morning in a corner of the yard....(I didn't get out last even to check on everything)...as I found no body and my neighbor saw a fox in her backyard towards dusk, looks like one of my Lav Orp adoptee is gone...got home from work today and found a bit of confusion in the coops and animal tracks on the fresh snow...(dog also was barking along the fence line)....well Roo#2 was back in coop#1 and Roo#1 was in coop#2....(a first for Roo#1)...and my adoptee americauna was AWOL....fearing the worst, I began searching the backyard with a flashlight...well I found her perched on top of the coop#2 fence next to the gate....I tried to put her in coop #2 and she refused to go in???, I placed her on roost in Coop #1.....

Net sum...I now have a second predator stalking the girls...and have lost 3 of my 4 orps to predators this fall/winter....if the snow ends early enough, I may try to find some fresh fox tracks in the snow in the morning...maybe I'll get lucky and follow the tracks back to the den.....

sorry for the rant/thread hog......
 
wingstone said:

small but mighty
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Wing:

the small ones are a PIA....much more persistent than Red Tails.....From my understanding, a hawk really fears nothing but a bigger hawk....I was thinking maybe a set of six 'decoy' crows might be a deterrent as flocks of crows will harrass a hawk.....just my musings....
 
stake said:
Wing:

the small ones are a PIA....much more persistent than Red Tails.....From my understanding, a hawk really fears nothing but a bigger hawk....I was thinking maybe a set of six 'decoy' crows might be a deterrent as flocks of crows will harrass a hawk.....just my musings....
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I like the crow decoy idea! We have an active crow population which has helped keep the hawks at bay
 
stake said:
Well folks,

The predators are back...saw a feather pile and blood this morning in a corner of the yard....(I didn't get out last even to check on everything)...as I found no body and my neighbor saw a fox in her backyard towards dusk, looks like one of my Lav Orp adoptee is gone...got home from work today and found a bit of confusion in the coops and animal tracks on the fresh snow...(dog also was barking along the fence line)....well Roo#2 was back in coop#1 and Roo#1 was in coop#2....(a first for Roo#1)...and my adoptee americauna was AWOL....fearing the worst, I began searching the backyard with a flashlight...well I found her perched on top of the coop#2 fence next to the gate....I tried to put her in coop #2 and she refused to go in???, I placed her on roost in Coop #1.....

Net sum...I now have a second predator stalking the girls...and have lost 3 of my 4 orps to predators this fall/winter....if the snow ends early enough, I may try to find some fresh fox tracks in the snow in the morning...maybe I'll get lucky and follow the tracks back to the den.....

sorry for the rant/thread hog......
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No need to apologize... I can only imagine the frustration!! I am glad the americauna was safe, if a bit upset. Hope you can find tracks in the daylight!
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stake said:
Well folks,

The predators are back...saw a feather pile and blood this morning in a corner of the yard....(I didn't get out last even to check on everything)...as I found no body and my neighbor saw a fox in her backyard towards dusk, looks like one of my Lav Orp adoptee is gone...got home from work today and found a bit of confusion in the coops and animal tracks on the fresh snow...(dog also was barking along the fence line)....well Roo#2 was back in coop#1 and Roo#1 was in coop#2....(a first for Roo#1)...and my adoptee americauna was AWOL....fearing the worst, I began searching the backyard with a flashlight...well I found her perched on top of the coop#2 fence next to the gate....I tried to put her in coop #2 and she refused to go in???, I placed her on roost in Coop #1.....

Net sum...I now have a second predator stalking the girls...and have lost 3 of my 4 orps to predators this fall/winter....if the snow ends early enough, I may try to find some fresh fox tracks in the snow in the morning...maybe I'll get lucky and follow the tracks back to the den.....

sorry for the rant/thread hog......
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good luck, seems like it is gonna be a bad year with fox attacks....just not enough people trapping them anymore.
 
I have some crazy chickens. I went to check everyone and I couldn't find my broody silkie. All my silkies were in the coop and there was a "hole to China" in the wood chips. I then look back in the corner I last seen my silkie. I seen a feather poking out and I brush off the pile of wood chips and see my silkie barely breathing. **** silkies are very persistent with being broody, she would rather die that leave her eggs.


Stake sorry for your loss. I hope you don't loose any more chickens.
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AnneInTheBurbs said:
Think I should throw Mama out with the other girls and keep the chicks in the house for a couple more weeks? Or put them all out after the storm and hope she tends to them?
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I'd put them out together as part of the socialization, if the other chickens should try to persecute the little ones, it's very likely the ex-broody will still intervene as long as she remembers the are her chicks.
 

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