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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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yeah that's cool!! What i am thinking is reducing the size to 4x4 with penned area and making little coops all over the place. maybe if they are spread out, no one will see them all.

Ahh -- check this out then

http://roosterhillfarms.net/home

His design is a 4x4 Coop with a run of 10x4. Super cool for three or maybe four birds. I use a variation on this for my quarantine coop. (larger run, but it is uncovered.)

Oh yeah....that size would be good...maybe a little taller...but I don't want to block our view of the mountains...it doesn't have to be anything massive--but 4x4 would be good.

The main coop can't have anything else around it--one side is our road in the winter and the other is the round pen. The backside has my duck/goose pens and the small coop that DH has been promising to finish since LAST summer.

Anyway--this spot is where it would go:

The spot I'm talking about is where the manure/compost pile is in this photo....

 

[VelvettFog]

Phew

Drove to HD this am and picked up a few items. I was surprised to find out that two very old HD cards that were in my wallet still had money on them. Today's HD trip was 'free', and I have enough remaining on a card for another trip. On the way home I stopped at the feed store, I was going to stock up but they didn't have 50# bags! I bought one 25#'er and will check back in a day or so. I also checked out the local Re-Store. I think I may have found some hinges and clasps that will work well. I'll give them a try tomorrow.

I finished up the nesting boxes and stapled the chicken-wired dividers in place, so the interior is just about done. I need to add roosts. Two of the three ramps are finished as well. So, painting, trim and roosts - and I can call it a coop.

DW went to the casino with a friend - so its just me and the girls. We'll listen to the Mariners and have a few cold ones -- while I try to figure out how to get seven coops stuffed into my truck and snowmobile trailer.


Oh someone from Tacoma I think, was hoping there was a "Dave" on their side of the mtns. Tacoma is no further away from Yakima than Omak, so you are still within my delivery radius. I build coops for therapy, and to make a few bucks for chicken feed. I think my work is not bad, but I am not a professional carpenter. I'd let my birds live in any coop I build, so I guess you could say that I make mine with chicken-love ... LOL

 

[SadieSue]

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Wow, you already got an egg from one of your Barnies? I thought you got them from CGG, the same hatch as mine! I let my barnies free-range for a while today with all the big birds. One of the roos got in a fight with both orpington roos and Chirp, my NH hen, who had been queen. She defends the orpington roos! It was not an all out for blood fight. The Barnie got cornered and backed down. I rescued him and put him back in his Eglu.

I did get her from CGG, but I don't know how old she is. She wasn't a little chick. CGG told me she should start laying anytime when I picked her up in April? so I was guessing she was still under a year old, but not recently hatched. Your barnies were pretty little when you got them, weren't they?

 

[SadieSue]

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[RonB]

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Nice looking Duplex. I like that the flock can get under it. my three coops are inside an old barn but my girls can get under the barn. they like it in the hot weather. they take their dust baths under there

 

[Kaneke]

OK -- looks like we are not going to Elma after all

(I never did get the directions as to exactly where it will be, anyway ... )

with this forecast nice weather, DH has work he wants to do on HIS hobby ... and he will need the dependable car

my chickies were loving the good weather today, and would probably throw a hissy fit if restricted to the coop and run tomorrow

oh ! such conversations ! they murmured and bukked continually when I was sitting out next to their chicken tractor ---
a hen party indeed ... though the roo was squeaking along too

 

[SadieSue]

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That was me, but since DH just finished building my coop I think there would be heck to pay if I told him I needed another one anytime soon. (Although a grow out coop and run would be REALLY nice to have.) However - there are other Western WA folks here who's ears might have just perked up!

 

[hallerlake]

We got the Brabanters enclosure and coop set up today. Mr H wanted to put them in immediately, so he could see them run around, but I thought it would be better to put them in the coop at dusk, and let them out into the enclosure in the morning. I want them to know where they're supposed to go at night. The other enclosure arrived this afternoon. I'm afraid to open the box to see if there is a preassembled door in there.

My only serious predators are eagles. This should be adequate for them. If I lived someplace more rural, or even suburban, it probably wouldn't be enough.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Looking great!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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If the hinges are both pointing in the same direction, it's easy for a neighbor dog or raccoon to lift the gate off the hinges. I can't tell whether you've got them either top pointing up/ bottom pointing down or top down/bottom up, but I'm paranoid about these things because hanging the gate with both hinge pins up was the way I lost all my daylilies to cattle the first time I put a gate into the orchard.