We're newbies to the coop

[ourdirtyfarm]

Hello, We just bought our first chicks a few days ago. We have 6 pretty little girls of all different breeds. We weren't sure which breed would be right for our family so we took one of each. We are looking for ideas on building a coop and finding the best ways to care for our chicks. Our girls are for laying. During the spring we will also have bees and start our veggie garden and berry patch. Looking forward to learning and sharing in this group. Thanks for having us.

 

[BlueBaby]

Hello, and welcome! Good luck with your new chick's!

 

[KLIL]

Hello from down under Australia and welcome to BYC!
You are going to love it here.

Feel free to pop by and share your daily updates for 2019 with us. We would love to have you join us.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flock-life-journeys-2019.1286370/

Lovely to meet you and hope to speak more.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Welcome to BYC! You actually started out with a great approach which is try a little bit of everything until you find what you really like. I like a nice mixed flock. Regarding Cooper ideas, there are tons of excellent ideas here on backyard chickens, which you can find by business the "coops" tab here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/chicken-coops.12/
The single key piece of advice I would offer to you as you consider what to build, would be to build way bigger than you think you need. Chicken math is generally inevitable, and even if it doesn't hit you you will have a happy flock that has more space than a "need" . I am firmly of the opinion that there is no such thing as providing too much space for your birds, however there is plenty of negative outcomes to be had by providing too little.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Are you planning to build your coop from scratch or convert a shed or similar structure into your new coop? Where in the world are you located? You can update your profile with your general location as that will likely affect some of your coop and run design.

 

[Helloworld]

Welcome and I am happy your here! Scootch in with us and have fun.. we can use all the extra feathers we can get here because it is freezing. In Florida. I received no eggs today because my chickens were holding them inside as heat packs. lol See ya around!

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best wishes and have lots of fun with your new fuzz babies!

 

[Spartan22]

Welcome to crazy world of chicken addiction!
If your building a coop, make sure to make it a as big and as roomy as you can, you’ll find out soon enough why.

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Glad you decided to join! Good luck with your little ones Check out the coop section, consider a run. Many options depending on location/climate, number of chickens, build or buy, converted structure or existing shed......

 

[ldrchickens]

Welcome to the flock! Glad to have ya! I agree with building the coop as large as possible! Soon you will find your self with the urge to add more chickens! So build big now so you wont have to resize later! haha