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Yep... posted my plans for my friends on FB... one friend said "y'know, the chickens won't know the difference". I said, they may or may not, either way, it's MY sunshiny happy place!! Thanks for posting the pics. I'll have to send pictures when I'm done (just painted the blue skies today.
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Janski said:
Yep... posted my plans for my friends on FB... one friend said "y'know, the chickens won't know the difference".  I said, they may or may not, either way, it's MY sunshiny happy place!!  Thanks for posting the pics.  I'll have to send pictures when I'm done (just painted the blue skies today.   :yiipchick
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I don't think I posted it here... But I also painted a wall size sunflower mural in mine! I figure in the dead of winter it will make my birds happy... ;)
 
Thanks! I was lucky enough to find this site before the building began and stole the best ideas from everybody else's coops lol The only thing I would do differently is make it 10X10 instead of 8X8 to give more room to fly down from the perches and to have a built in brooder.
 
OK ... I've tried 3 different searches for the words "in the brooder' in this thread and I can't find what I'm looking so I'm just going to post.

At the risk of being redundant - because I'm SURE that somewhere in here it's been discussed - can you use it in a brooder? Is it safe for chicks?? My brooder is a great big, plywood box on legs thing that I borrowed from a friend - and even cleaned out, it smelled a little before the chicks went in. It's about 3 1/2' x 5' and only has 8 chicks in it. They've been in there for 3 days now and it's GOT to be cleaned out tonight. I was thinking how nice it would be to simply scoop the poo instead of sweeping/shoveling/digging it out. And - added bonus - I could more easily monitor the baby poo since most of it now simply vanishes into the shavings.
 
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ok, I'm new here so whats DLM? I am planning on using a metal shed 10x8 with a 10x8x6 kennel in front. Apparently a poop board will have to be added to the construction now, and was planning on using the other side for nesting boxes. I have 24 chickens going in there. My DH was going to add a couple of windows, Does that sound suffice?
 
caw6142 said:
ok, I'm new here so whats DLM? I am planning on using a metal shed 10x8 with a 10x8x6 kennel in front. Apparently a poop board will have to be added to the construction now, and was planning on using the other side for nesting boxes. I have 24 chickens going in there. My DH was going to add a couple of windows, Does that sound suffice?
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DLM is deep litter method. The litter starts out several inches deep and gets raked every day so the poo ends up on the bottom and new litter is added weekly. This encourages decomposition and less smell. The coop only gets cleaned out a couple times a year. I'm trying it; I've got wood pellets, pine shavings, and diatomaceous earth.

Sounds good to me, I'll have 24 hens total too, but I'm not sure how many I'll end up putting in the freezer before winter.
 
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