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[TJordan]

Awesome pictures!!! My fiance and I are just starting to build our chicken coop. This site has great coops to give us ideas. The coops look nicer than some human homes

Pay close attention to how many birds you are getting, how big they will get full grown and please don't make the mistake we did.... Building it under an unstable tree so that when the wind blows hard in a storm it crushes the coop half built!!!
We are having to put ours in a small coop until we can build a bigger one... Thank God for a big yard

 

[jaseyboy1986]

Oops, forgot the pic. Haha!

I'll try again

 

[TJordan]

I'll try again

Very nice but some hardware wire around that and stones outside will help... I'm praying nothing gets mine before we can add these precautions....

 

[DoubleMM]

This will make you open your eyes and run to get a closer look...



Then she sat up and got upset that I interrupted her bath...

First couple of time really makes your heart stop...

 

[tntchix]

Added a stump for step down out of coop. The girls seem to love it and it came with a bug buffet.

New bottom nest boxes for bantams: it didn't take long for them to scratch out all the straw I just put in while they were inspecting my work. Or to poop on top. (needs slanted board for sure)
Nest mats are coming next.

 

[TJordan]

First couple of time really makes your heart stop...

Don't have to tell me... My kid cried because he thought she was dead...

 

[DoubleMM]

Chickens absolutely LOVE free-range - like letting children loose onto a playground. If you can get a hose out to the free-range wet an area down and they'll have a blast digging in the wet soil. Set up some plywood planks on cinderblocks or a couple recycled large doghouses or a popup canopy with legs buried a foot into the ground for shade/snoozing/hiding areas from aerial predators. The hawks won't go after hiding chickens. We have rose bushes that our hens like to hide under besides a wheelbarrow and plywood shelters set on cinderblocks and a popup canopy. Our Cooper's Hawk (chicken hawk) won't go after our hiding girls. I guess they prefer swooping down on a running chicken in an open yard so we set up shelters all around for chickens to duck for cover. With those shady trees you probably have occasional predators stalking your girls and the shelters will provide them cover during their barnyard alerts. Love your barnyard brick red coop.

Thanks,

Much of that is on the "To Do" list.

We've had our troubles with hawks before. The run is 30' but 50'. Thought I'd set a couple of 4x6x8 on either end of the length, run a cable through the top and drape a poultry net over the perimeter to the goat wire around the outside.

Chose the red for this small coop... still haven't figured out what color for the main coop

 

[TJordan]

Oh man I'm happier than a hen with full time access to happy hen treats!!! e day 2 of my little ones going into the coop at dusk WITHOUT MY HELP!!!!!!! :yiipchick

 

[tntchix]

Oh man I'm happier than a hen with full time access to happy hen treats!!!

day 2 of my little ones going into the coop at dusk WITHOUT MY HELP!!!!!!!

success!

 

[Jack-Girl]

Getting closer!
I am looking forward to the completion!