post your chicken coop pictures here!

[Rani]

Thank you, I"ll look into that!

 

[Sylvester017]

Couldn't you just get some long bungie cords to loop around the can to keep the raccoons from taking the lid off? That would be simple enough for the garbage men to take off quick, but if you get the right length and tension, the raccoons shouldn't be able to mess with it short of chewing thru the bungie, and heck, you could probably cover the bungie in extra hot Hot Sauce and that would keep em from doing that.

You might have to bribe your garbage man to go along with that idea, especially if they have some sort of set up where they normally don't have to get out of the truck to do anything. I'm sure you can thing of something.

I suppose I could talk to the trash guys if they spoke ENGLISH or my native RUSSIAN. LOL. Our nation needs to do what the European and Scandinavian countries do - teach the kids 5 different foreign languages beginning in Kindergarten all the way through high school instead of extra curriculars like finger-painting, picnics, and skipping rope! Our visiting Finnish friend speaks 6 languages and fluently and barely any accent in any of the languages she spoke - she started learning her first foreign language English in Kindergarten!!! We have overpaid school superintendents and dumbed-down school subjects and shortened school days. No wonder people are turning to home-schooling (home school also causes the parents to stimulate their learning).

Rant!

 

[vehve]

I suppose I could talk to the trash guys if they spoke ENGLISH or my native RUSSIAN. LOL. Our nation needs to do what the European and Scandinavian countries do - teach the kids 5 different foreign languages beginning in Kindergarten all the way through high school instead of extra curriculars like finger-painting, picnics, and skipping rope! Our visiting Finnish friend speaks 6 languages and fluently and barely any accent in any of the languages she spoke - she started learning her first foreign language English in Kindergarten!!! We have overpaid school superintendents and dumbed-down school subjects and shortened school days. No wonder people are turning to home-schooling (home school also causes the parents to stimulate their learning).

Rant!

She was a show-off, most of us only speak three languages. I'm at about three and three quarters.

*Edit* And to demonstrate the Scandinavian education, I shall inform you that Scandinavia is a part of Europe.

 

[Sylvester017]

thanks. Im using 1/4 inch hardwire because i found it on amazon and it was cheaper than the 1/2", i wanted to use 1/2" but couldn't pass up the price. the girls will be locked in the coop at night and i agree some good strong raccoon proof lock is in order. the wood latch on there now was just to keep the door from blowing open over night.

i didn't think about the possible negative side affects of mixing the EEs with the larger breeds. they are 2 weeks old today and the RIR appears to be at the top of the order but they all get along very well. i hope it stays this way. oh i am actually just outside of downtown Cleveland, OH but there are definitely lots of coons and opossums that need to stay out.

1/4 inch is not as sturdy as 1/2 inch but certainly better than any flimsy poultry wire!

As for your EEs you at least have 2 of them and not just one lone one. So many new chickeneers just pick up ONE EE for a colorful egg basket without thinking about the consequences of a gentle breed alone in a group of heavier dual purpose breeds that can get aggressive at maturity. Pullets will always get along growing up together - it's at maturity anywhere from 18 months to 2 years that the bigger assertive breeds will start pushing their weight around.

 

[Sylvester017]

She was a show-off, most of us only speak three languages. I'm at about three and three quarters.

*Edit* And to demonstrate the Scandinavian education, I shall inform you that Scandinavia is a part of Europe.

See what I mean about education in the U.S.A. - if I had a good public school education I would've known THAT

 

[vehve]

See what I mean about education in the U.S.A. - if I had a good public school education I would've known THAT

Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a proper, well thought out national curriculum, and ending tenure and replacing the incompetent teachers with people who actually know something and care about their students. (Now I'm going to start a riot.)

 

[Sylvester017]

Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a proper, well thought out national curriculum, and ending tenure and replacing the incompetent teachers with people who actually know something and care about their students. (Now I'm going to start a riot.)

Too late - our parents throughout the nation are rioting to their school boards - it's just directed on deaf ears! The more population there is, the more bureaucracy is set up, and the less gets done.

 

[LindaB220]

She was a show-off, most of us only speak three languages. I'm at about three and three quarters.

*Edit* And to demonstrate the Scandinavian education, I shall inform you that Scandinavia is a part of Europe.

I speak one language 'Merican.

 

[vehve]

I speak one language 'Merican.

Gawd bliss Murica!

 

[Pecanny]

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I'm not a fan of putting lihterweight gentle natured EEs with heavy dual purpose breeds but at least you have the EEs as a set and not one alone in the mixed group. Personally I think EEs and APA Ameraucanas are better natured and just as excellent layers as Leghorns.

For your coop - beautiful build. The only advice is to use 1/2 inch hardwire, secure locks (not easy wooden sliders) and a couple feet wide paver stones or heavy boulders or cinder blocks around the base of the pen. It looks like you have a heavily wooded tree area and the predators will seek out chickens - hence the need for secure locking mechanisms that will be too complicated for manipulative Raccoons to open. You never knew you had predators until you get chickens.

What Sylvester said...