Pic Heavy.... my duckies outside the pen for the first time today

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Here are pics of the top run (before a few additions to it, but this is the basic structure)...

with the "screen door" on the coop.

We had chicken wire as a top to the run - now we have it covered with metal. The lower coop runs are just wire, no solid roof on them.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

The lower coops....

the top coop is on the far right, here - lower coop is down the stairs/hill...

building the runs off the back of the lower coop (they are done now, need to get updated pics)

had to add in a "chicken corral" so the donkeys wouldn't go into the open coop door and eat the chicken feed

top part of the waterfowl pen (in building mode)

The lower coop is three cells - two with runs (one houses the free rangers) and the top part of the runs is a waterfowl pen - it goes at the top and bottom of the hill. I'll get some pics of the finished product tomorrow for ya.

meri

 

[19Dawn76]

I'm so jealous. We just built a brooder and I was so proud.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

My top coop is now the brooder coop - all I have in there is babies up to 2 or 3 months old.

I have made additions inside it, too - it has shelves and seperate cages and a little baby brooder cage built in (for picked on babies).

meri

 

[ILoveJoe]

Beautiful! I like your coop, it looks really nice.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Thanks,

The top coop won one of the BYC coop contests. The bottom one I submitted, but it didn't win - but then I've added a lot to it, maybe I'll take new pics and submit it again to the next contest.

When I submitted the bottom coop, it was just the coop - no run, no chicken corral, nothing else fancy to it.

I love the new bottom runs - they are bigger than the top run, and in the lower part of the pasture, so they get shade for half the day. The trees have filled in nicely around them, and it is green and cool down there all afternoon.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

I just noticed

this pic has a picture of Jr. as a baby.

she is over on the left hand side by the wire.


This is Jr. today with her own babies. She was the first chick ever hatched on the farm.

meri

 

[19Dawn76]

How sweet!!!!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Sadly, she is down to 3 chicks - three of them died (rain, mostly - we had tons of rain right after they hatched - and she dragged those chicks wherever she wanted to go - she's a first time mama. One must have been eaten by a snake, never found it's body.)