post your chicken coop pictures here!

[rdfields68]

Heres mine. Almost finished. Painting the inside now.

 

[gilcamp4]

Methinks you worry too much (like any new parent

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My barn has a lot of single pane windows and I've never had a chicken fly at them. Most are OLD 6 over 6. The one that has a pane missing is the "chicken door" out the long wall of the barn alley. I hinged a piece of plywood to the wall to make a door for it. Most of the time the doors on the ends of the barn are open and they use those. I made a ~18' x 18' outdoor run using hot wire posts and chicken wire just outside that window with ramps on both sides so they could go outside and be safe when they were little. As adults they just wander wherever they want and are probably safer NOT being confined in a "slap it up" non predator safe run.


Looks terriffic.


I don't know. Epic fail not having the wood on the door line up with the siding.

I jest of course, very nicely done!


Mine are OK with power tools but they are pretty wary of the orange "snake" I plug them into.


Oh, mine do not like the mower AT ALL. It is a 54" deck on a garden tractor so probably louder than your average mower.

mine come running to get the grass, we turn mower so grass goes into yard, they love it, we built new coop right in same yard, hubbie had to sh them away they were under his feet the whole time. we use a tractor to cut plus a toro that is 50"

 

[crazyhen]

When my hens hear the mower they run to the side of the fence waiting for the grass to blow through. Its bug and grass buffet time.

 

[jtbass2756]

That's what mine do also !

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Mine

When my hens hear the mower they run to the side of the fence waiting for the grass to blow through. Its bug and grass buffet time.

Mine, too. I've done my builds in the chicken yard and the worse problem is them under foot and on my ladder. And we all know what a problem it is when you get out the shovel. Lol

 

[Minflick]

I grow my tomato plants in jumbo pots here, as my only sunny ground is my gravel driveway. And because most of the plants have quit for the year, I've moved them out back to get them out of the way. When I picked up 2 of the pots, nice black crickets when hopping every which way, and all I could think of was "catch them for the chickens!!!" Which I could not do, as they were moving way too fast. Girls would probably have loved them.

 

[glendor787]

My husband creation!!

 

[perchie.girl]

My husband creation!!

OMG and sooo creative too.... can he come decorate my house?

deb

 

[glendor787]

Lol,
Thanks Deb! He does have a good eye for decor!

 

[bruceha2000]

Mine
Mine, too. I've done my builds in the chicken yard and the worse problem is them under foot and on my ladder. And we all know what a problem it is when you get out the shovel. Lol

How long does it take to plant a mum? Depends on if the chickens "help". If they do, the answer is "a long, LONG time!"

I grow my tomato plants in jumbo pots here, as my only sunny ground is my gravel driveway. And because most of the plants have quit for the year, I've moved them out back to get them out of the way. When I picked up 2 of the pots, nice black crickets when hopping every which way, and all I could think of was "catch them for the chickens!!!" Which I could not do, as they were moving way too fast. Girls would probably have loved them.

I bet you would have been a lot less interested if someone asked you if you wanted to catch crickets before you had chickens. I never thought about collecting earwigs (not even ONCE) before I had chickens and saw how fast they went for them when one was spotted.

You know for next time to bring the chickens out to the plants before you pick up the pots. I have one chicken that has figured out there are goodies to be had any time I am pulling weeds and she eats things I can't even see.