Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Starburst]

Oh most here know I got pup turned out to be much younger
He is now growing leaps and bounds View attachment 2378206

He's so adorable!

 

[CPerales05]

Did you build your coop or was prefab there is lots of threads on here about coops

We actually used my kids old play house and made it into a coop! We built the outside add on for the run. We left about 6’ of room Incase we want to built a larger run.
We do let our chicks out 2x a day for about 10 mins each time to free roam plus our pup is getting used to them, which is nice.

 

[britesidefarm]

We actually used my kids old play house and made it into a coop! We built the outside add on for the run. We left about 6’ of room Incase we want to built a larger run.
We do let our chicks out 2x a day for about 10 mins each time to free roam plus our pup is getting used to them, which is nice.

That’s really cool! I made my most recent coop out of an old playhouse as well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Be awful careful what breed of dog is it many have killed a chicken

 

[CPerales05]

We actually used my kids old play house and made it into a coop! We built the outside add on for the run. We left about 6’ of room Incase we want to built a larger run.
We do let our chicks out 2x a day for about 10 mins each time to free roam plus our pup is getting used to them, which is nice.

 

[CPerales05]

That’s really cool! I made my most recent coop out of an old playhouse as well.

It really worked well! I just posted pictures of it on my post

 

[CPerales05]

Be awful careful what breed of dog is it many have killed a chicken

Ours is a puppy, and she’s a English bulldog. She’s been great with them so far, we don’t let them out unsupervised, ever, and won’t. We want her to get used to them. We have too many hawks and big crows flying around to do that.

 

[CPerales05]

It really worked well! I just posted pictures of it on my post

I think they also look really cool and it made building it easier.

 

[rosemarythyme]

We actually used my kids old play house and made it into a coop! We built the outside add on for the run. We left about 6’ of room Incase we want to built a larger run.

It's a very cute set up but you may encounter some difficulties in adding more birds with the size of the run. Recommended minimum space is 4 sq ft in coop, 10 sq ft in run, but integration favors more space because new birds need to be able to get away or hide from attacks from the old ones, and space is needed in order to add clutter to help with that. So something else to consider before growing your flock.

 

[CPerales05]

It's a very cute set up but you may encounter some difficulties in adding more birds with the size of the run. Recommended minimum space is 4 sq ft in coop, 10 sq ft in run, but integration favors more space because new birds need to be able to get away or hide from attacks from the old ones, and space is needed in order to add clutter to help with that. So something else to consider before growing your flock.

We’re able to extend the run 6’ if needed and next summer we are going to block off underneath the house so they can lay under the house and “chill”