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[ramsburgchicken]

Do you have pics of the run also or do they free range

We do (partial) supervised free range for 8-10 hours a day. As we've taught them the boundary lines for our property. They only get cooped up if no one is home or we let the dogs out to play for a bit.

 

[Latestarter]

Isn't that strange that the chickens have free run of the yard and the dogs get let out to play "for a bit"...

 

[ramsburgchicken]

Isn't that strange that the chickens have free run of the yard and the dogs get let out to play "for a bit"...

Nope. Though I appreciate your concern for our pups,

they're huskies and can't stand the heat. After about 10 minutes they're wanting back inside.

 

[ramsburgchicken]

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Isn't that strange that the chickens have free run of the yard and the dogs get let out to play "for a bit"...

In the winter months the roles reverse, our huskies love the snow and the chickens hate it.

 

[Jaksmac2]

We mad this for my birthday took 4 weekends. Cost in total about £300 size 10ft by 6ft by 6ft high.

 

[Latestarter]

I wasn't concerned, I was joking... I understand completely! My dogs are "inside" dogs too for the most part, especially in this heat. One of my dogs, a Golden Retriever is a full time inside dog. The other a 50/50 Great Pyr/Anatolian Shepard (to be LGD) spends nights outside year round, but most of the day he's inside sleeping... Right now, mostly under the outflow from the swamp cooler

And he's throwing off hair/shedding to beat the band! Just running my hand over him sends up a cloud and I am constantly pulling out tufts of loose hair. Even after shed comb use, he's still blowing out coat. Hope he finishes in the next week or two... Tired of hair everywhere.

Edit to add: In the cold weather, the Pyr/Toli doesn't want to be inside... he's outside almost continuously with inside visits.

 

[Birdydeb]

I wasn't concerned, I was joking... I understand completely! My dogs are "inside" dogs too for the most part, especially in this heat. One of my dogs, a Golden Retriever is a full time inside dog. The other a 50/50 Great Pyr/Anatolian Shepard (to be LGD) spends nights outside year round, but most of the day he's inside sleeping... Right now, mostly under the outflow from the swamp cooler And he's throwing off hair/shedding to beat the band! Just running my hand over him sends up a cloud and I am constantly pulling out tufts of loose hair. Even after shed comb use, he's still blowing out coat. Hope he finishes in the next week or two... Tired of hair everywhere.

Edit to add: In the cold weather, the Pyr/Toli doesn't want to be inside... he's outside  almost continuously with inside visits.

I have two Great Pyrenees. In the summer it is hard to get them to stay out any length of time. In the winter I can't get them in. They will lay in snow drifts in single digit temps. My male is STILL doing a blow out, you have my sympathy! LOL

 

[Intheswamp]

We mad this for my birthday took 4 weekends. Cost in total about £300 size 10ft by 6ft by 6ft high.

Really nice birthday gift!!!!! Nice job!

Ed

 

[Autumnswirl]

When we bought this place, there were 7 or 8 rotted falling apart "coops" in an area we were turning into a horse pasture, so we pulled out all but the largest one. Spring rolled around and I managed to talk my hubby into getting chickens. So, we deconstructed the remaining coop, put in a raised floor, shortened the walls, left the roof overhang as a "porch", added a window, dutch doors, and a nesting box.

Before:



During: (no worries horse fans, I kept the entire process horse safe)






After:


We think it turned out pretty well considering we were working with an old structure to start with- nothing was level or square. Sense this last pic was taken we have added nesting boxes beside the door with a hinged opening on the outside, and we are going to add another hinged opening for poop boards under the roosts.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I wasn't concerned, I was joking... I understand completely! My dogs are "inside" dogs too for the most part, especially in this heat. One of my dogs, a Golden Retriever is a full time inside dog. The other a 50/50 Great Pyr/Anatolian Shepard (to be LGD) spends nights outside year round, but most of the day he's inside sleeping... Right now, mostly under the outflow from the swamp cooler And he's throwing off hair/shedding to beat the band! Just running my hand over him sends up a cloud and I am constantly pulling out tufts of loose hair. Even after shed comb use, he's still blowing out coat. Hope he finishes in the next week or two... Tired of hair everywhere.

Edit to add: In the cold weather, the Pyr/Toli doesn't want to be inside... he's outside  almost continuously with inside visits.

I have two Great Pyrenees. In the summer it is hard to get them to stay out any length of time. In the winter I can't get them in. They will lay in snow drifts in single digit temps. My male is STILL doing a blow out, you have my sympathy! LOL

Ours doesn't like to stay out long either though sometimes he does. Can never really tell with him, sometimes he just goes to the bathroom and wants to come right in, other times he wants to stay outside. In fact sometimes he is stupid and lays in the direct sun roasting. But if he gets too hot he finds shade or dirt. I think it's usually when it's extremely hot and humid or bad weather that he wants to come in and when we're outside that he wants to stay out.

Like someone else said though, in the winter it's impossible to get him in LOL

And he's shedding too. He wasn't for a while but now he is again. Just like Latestarter said, you pet him or rub him and fur flies off LOL

He's half black Lab and half Great Pyrenees so nowhere near the Pyrenees coat but he still sheds A LOT. Labs shed a ton too if I remember from our old Lab so he kind of got the worst coat from both lol he has a more medium length coat, kinda like a Lab but longer around the neck and shoulders and tail base. And somewhat back. But yeah. Even the "mane" though isn't real long Pyrenees or Golden hair though, more just deeper and thicker and a little longer.