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Greetings and welcome to BYC Brenda! So glad you joined us. Don't feel bad about not being able to cut and paste. There's an entire area devoted to coop design with thousands of pictures. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/coops.12/
The next coop I build will be a Woods style coop.

There's a wealth of info, knowledge and experience shared in the multitude of threads. Browse around and see what interesting stuff you can find. By all means post away when the desire strikes you, especially if you have questions (provide as much detail/info as possible and pictures truly help)... With all the great folks here, generally someone will respond in no time at all. Please make yourself at home!

Oh, if you haven't done so already, PLEASE put at least your general location in your profile. It could be very important if/when you ask for or offer help or advice. You know, climate issues and such. Old folks like me :old will never remember (Nevada) & look there first. To add it, mouse hover over Account top right and a drop down will appear. Click on Personal Details and scan down. You'll see the spot for Location. Then go to the bottom and save changes. Thanks! Hope you enjoy the site!
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Latestarter said:
Greetings and welcome to BYC Brenda! So glad you joined us. Don't feel bad about not being able to cut and paste. There's an entire area devoted to coop design with thousands of pictures. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/coops.12/
The next coop I build will be a Woods style coop.

There's a wealth of info, knowledge and experience shared in the multitude of threads. Browse around and see what interesting stuff you can find. By all means post away when the desire strikes you, especially if you have questions (provide as much detail/info as possible and pictures truly help)... With all the great folks here, generally someone will respond in no time at all. Please make yourself at home!

Oh, if you haven't done so already, PLEASE put at least your general location in your profile. It could be very important if/when you ask for or offer help or advice. You know, climate issues and such. Old folks like me :old will never remember (Nevada) & look there first. To add it, mouse hover over Account top right and a drop down will appear. Click on Personal Details and scan down. You'll see the spot for Location. Then go to the bottom and save changes. Thanks! Hope you enjoy the site!
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Thank you all for the warm welcome! I will learn a lot here, I can tell! Believe it or not, it doesn't get terribly hot here where we are. We have colder winters than hot summers. I've been here two summers so far and it hasn't gotten over 100 degrees yet. We get snow though! I can try the Australorps, too.
 
BrendaJune said:
I'm new to this site and new to chickens. I don't have any yet but we have lots of room (20 acres) and lots of plans. We are looking at different coop designs, placement and cost. We have lots of coyote, racoon, sometimes mountain lion and bear so protection is a big concern. I would like the Fort Knox of chicken coops but that costs more than we want to spend. We live in the middle of nowhere in Nevada. No grocery store. No gas station. But two tractor dealers! I would really like to get Black Jersey Giants. I do not know how to cut and paste, much to my husbands chagrin, so I wrote a paragraph instead. I look forward to reading many informative articles here.
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Your ahead of the game coming here Welcome to Backyard Chickens.... Hardware cloth stops all but Bears for that a good gun.. I actually like taking a backyard shed either buy one of build one you have a door then and you can stand in it a much smaller door can be cut to allow chickens in and out everything else is hardware cloth best bet buy it from Amazon lots more bang for buck
 
G’Day from down under BrendaJune :frow Welcome!

I hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.

You might want to also Find Your State Thread and pop in and say hello.

BYC has Topic of the Week discussions which I have found to be a great resource and a one stop shop for questions which may have already been discussed within the BYC membership group. These two might be of particular interest to you at this stage:
Topic of the Week - Getting Started, Keeping Chickens
Topic of the Week - Keeping the Flock Safe from Predators

If you would like to share Pictures and Stories of your flock when they arrive, you have come to the right place. BYC’ers never tire of these and do not back away slowly or commence eye rolling when the photo album or home videos come out ;)

Best wishes and good luck!
 

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