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[JenBirdRansom]

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Nice to meet ya! Chicken people ROCK!!

 

[Greg Richardson]

Mia. You leave your run the way it is installing chicken wire wall a foot INSIDE the run so it complies with law.
Then call for inspection.
What am I missing here?
You leave your run up the way it is.
The new wall complies with the law.

Reduce the size of your flock.

Do things like straw etc if you worried about them not free ranging.
They can be very happy in new run size you are only eliminating 5% of the run area if that.

 

[Mia_]

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The coop is 50' away, the run is closer. If I got the run in compliance, there would be enough room to open the door and that is about it.

 

[Mia_]

I am headed down to Oly soon. Anyone down there want a chicken delivery?

 

[Totalcolour]

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You mean today? I'll take 2

 

[Chickielady]

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Applesauce!

Apple tarts! Apple pie! Apple fritters! Apple turnovers! Apple butter!

Canned Peaches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

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I thought the very same!
Why not open a wee door & let the birds have the cycloned fenced area on the left of your coop?
nail over the door to their present coop run so they'd have to measure over farther??

 

[Chickielady]

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In the city of Tacoma, you have to get the permission of any neighbor living within 50' of your chickens. We went and talked to her, she said yes, and so we got chickens.

After we got the chickens, we found out that the permission had to be on file with the city, she has refused to sign it. If she had said no in the first place, we would not have gotten the chickens!

Our appeal to the city has been to give us more time to get her to sign.

When I talked to her last night, she was complaining about the amount of flies (what flies?) and the mouse problem (I have not seen a mouse in at least 6 months, and with two cats, I would expect one to bring one home if they did exist), and she talked about an animal being in the chicken coop (I had a hard time not laughing, my cat has been stuck in there overnight a few times, and from the time I got them Memorial Day Weekend, I have not lost any birds, given away yes, died no.)

Edited to add: I am not including the CornishX birds in that last statement, they went to freezer camp.

There is NO FLIES with chickens.
A maggot has not a ice cube's chance in hell of surviving anywhere close to a herd of cluckers!
Move your birds to run in the long 'alley-like' area to the left!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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I thought the very same!
Why not open a wee door & let the birds have the cycloned fenced area on the left of your coop?
nail over the door to their present coop run so they'd have to measure over farther??

If she's convinced there is no solution then maybe there isn't one. Possibly we are not understanding the photo and we need an arial drawing. Or trust she knows what she is talking about.

 

[Chickielady]

Mia if push comes to shove, I can house your birds here temporarily until you can get them sold.
I have an empty small coop.

If I were you I would call the inspector back out & ask if you would be in compliance IF your birds had the run area to the left of the coop...sawzall a new door there for them.
That would give you alot more feet.....