Starting on a coop

[Sally PB]

Neat! I love seeing what might be trash become something wonderful and useful. Good job!

 

[no fly zone]

Neat! I love seeing what might be trash become something wonderful and useful. Good job!

I would love to have the budget to buy all the best materials new from home depot, but free pallets made up most of it.

 

[Flockincrazy]

Something killed my favorite rooster not too long ago (maybe a bobcat). So i built a small but secure run for the girls, since whatever got my roo did so about 9 or 10 am, meaning they were not safe in their chicken playpen.

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That is awesome I would use the hot pepper trick to if I were you and upcycling wood is the way to go my entire set up was built with upcycled pallets and plywood

 

[Cryss]

Huh, thought you'd just keep the concrete as the 'floor'.

Me too but then, because they are making a wood floor, I wondered why they didn’t use pallets as the frame. My coop started with a pallet floor and built up from there. The floor pallets are wrapped in hardware cloth. No critters getting in that way.

 

[no fly zone]

That is awesome I would use the hot pepper trick to if I were you and upcycling wood is the way to go my entire set up was built with upcycled pallets and plywood

What is the hot pepper trick?

 

[Flockincrazy]

What is the hot pepper trick?

Take the hottest peppers you can get your hands on and crush them especially the seeds put it around your coop and run and it deters predators

 

[no fly zone]

Take the hottest peppers you can get your hands on and crush them especially the seeds put it around your coop and run and it deters predators

Interesting.

 

[Flockincrazy]

Interesting.

It has kept my flock safe for lots of yrs we have coyotes, fox and river rats

 

[aart]

Take the hottest peppers you can get your hands on and crush them especially the seeds put it around your coop and run and it deters predators

It has kept my flock safe for lots of yrs we have coyotes, fox and river rats

How often to you replenish the peppers on the ground??

 

[Flockincrazy]

How often to you replenish the peppers on the ground??

1x a month or after a big rain