post your chicken coop pictures here!

[FarmerPhronc]

First of all I like your coop if that's the same one I saw on the cedar website with the metal roof. The additional pen provides a good place to ball-tie a tarp over the coop for shade or rain protection.

Secondly in a rural area it's good to have 2 dogs although my personal preference are for the flock guardian breed dogs rather than general working dogs but still a plus to have 2 big dogs - yours are handsome! The only reason I say guardian flock breeds rather than herding or general working dogs is that the herding/working breeds will instinctively leave the flock unprotected to go chase after a predator (our old Border Collie and Rottie) where a flock breed will not only let the flock walk around them but most flock dog instincts will stay in the midst of a flock until the predator is in range. Some of these flock breeds are gentle giants with family members as well as with the flock like Pyrenees, Ovtcharka Mountain, Sarplininac, Maremma, etc etc. The drawback for me now to have a great flock dog breed is that most of them are in the 100+ lb range and my cottage backyard is just too small for a large dog to get enough exercise plus I only have 4 hens now. Used to have 25 acres but in retirement we have a small cottage yard.

Third it's great you have awareness of predators in your area. It's amazing how many people get surprised when a coyote, fox, or raccoon attacks their birds. Noctural raccoons with kits usually don't come out in the daylight hours but around us we've seen the adults with no kits walking around the golf course in the morning and in the late afternoon sun. If predators are hungry enough and food is available all bets are off regarding their normal behavior. I've seen videos of cute raccoons viciously rip open a screen door and attack a human in their own living room. Some raccoon behavior is just the thrill of the chase and not necessarily for food. Any time I see roadkill in our suburb I know it means at least 1/2 dozen less kits next year LOL!!

First of all Thanks! If you visited http://urbancoopcompany.com/product/round-top-chicken-coop/ then, yes, it's the same coop. While I agree with tarping the additional run, I live in Colorado where we get a good amount of snow, need to build a hoop or slanted roof, putting a tarp over a flat roof not a good idea here

Secondly, I've had the dogs for 6 n 9 years, the ladies, 1 week. I can certainly see the advantages of having a "flock dog" in the future.

Third, yeah, even though I'm new to having my own chickens, having lived in rural Colorado, I can't think of one that someone has mentioned that you don't find here. Although I haven't seen one myself one of my dogs got sprayed by a skunk back in May. I've seen fox in town, hear coyotes at night, a friend, just 3 blocks away, speaks of raccoons in her yard.

 

[Sylvester017]

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First of all Thanks! If you visited http://urbancoopcompany.com/product/round-top-chicken-coop/ then, yes, it's the same coop. While I agree with tarping the additional run, I live in Colorado where we get a good amount of snow, need to build a hoop or slanted roof, putting a tarp over a flat roof not a good idea here

Secondly, I've had the dogs for 6 n 9 years, the ladies, 1 week. I can certainly see the advantages of having a "flock dog" in the future.

Third, yeah, even though I'm new to having my own chickens, having lived in rural Colorado, I can't think of one that someone has mentioned that you don't find here. Although I haven't seen one myself one of my dogs got sprayed by a skunk back in May. I've seen fox in town, hear coyotes at night, a friend, just 3 blocks away, speaks of raccoons in her yard.

Yep, that's the website. Cool models and the walk-in is perfect for our sunny SoCal. I liked the Amish style coops but they are too enclosed for our climate. I bought something a little more cutesy like a Barn Coop on wheels with additional run because it is in our view right outside our sliding door. Our old coop was all right but we finally saved for something a bit more aesthetic. Believe me a sloped or gabled roof should be on all coops/runs in any area of the country. We don't get much rain but it was the pits having a flat asphalt roof on our little 4x6 coop so we finally erected a pop-up canopy over it.

Skunks are a nuisance because of their odor but they are nasty tempered too. My DD has Bobcats stealing rabbits right out of her neighbor's fenced back yard. I puppy-sat one time and a darned raccoon knocked over the heavy-duty city trash can and dragged bags of rotten trash all over the back yard. I didn't dare confront the critter in case it had kits nearby but I spent an hour next morning picking up it's garbage. You'd think the city trash company would have a way for us to padlock their lids in a rural area! My S-I-L used a night CAM to photograph their night critters - Coyote, Oppossum, Skunk, Rabbit, Rattlesnake, Deer, Bobcat/Lynx, Hawk, Owl, Stray Dogs and domestic Cats, once a Mountain Lion (Cougar/Puma), and a Bear. Their backyard is against a Hiking/Bike Path in a wooded area. With those critters around you won't find ME going hiking or biking! LOL

 

[redfish514]

Wow! Where do you live? Rae

I live In Cantonment Florida, but since no one knows where that is, Just North of Pensacola.

 

[LuWis]

My new interior coop design

 

[WVduckchick]

My new interior coop design

Wow, that looks fancy!

 

[LuWis]

Wow, that looks fancy! 

Thank you, its a very small scale version of what I want to do when I buy my own land and have chicken paradise.

 

[walkonwatereh]

For those of you who are interested I began posting the coop on the coop page. It is called scribe fit coop

 

[ShrekDawg]

Awesome! I'll have to look for it.

 

[bigmrg74]

For those of you who are interested I began posting the coop on the coop page. It is called scribe fit coop

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/scribe-fit-coop

Very cool coop. I bet the mods will be asking you to use your coop as a featured coop on the main page. especially once you get your stuff in on the winter road. Might want to include a map of where you're at so you can explain to the rest of just why you can't just run on down to the local hardware store for everything.

 

[perchie.girl]

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