where are the wonderful st. louis area chicken people ????

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

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I live in Oakville. Im building a coop too and my neighbors thought it was a play house. I told them it was for chickens and they all seem fine with it so far.

 

[urbanlayers]

Sorry we missed the backyard chicken fun. I had to work and we're planning to build our coop this Saturday, so spare moments have been taken up with planning.

 

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

Have fun building your coop and make it bigger than you think you need because you will end up with more chickens.

 

[ChickenNoodle]

I'm in Imperial, MO! Nice to see other chicken folks so close by!!

 

[ChickenNoodle]

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anyone near me?

I'm about 10 minutes south of the JB bridge! Howdy neighbor!

 

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

Thats a nice looking coop ChickenNoodle and what a great dad you have.

 

[urbanlayers]

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We're building the coop 6x8, and the run should be about 8x10 plus 6x8, I'm not sure how much square feet that makes it, but hopefully they'll have enough room. We're hoping to raise two Turkeys as well, but won't buy those until later in the spring (don't want them to big).

 

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

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We're building the coop 6x8, and the run should be about 8x10 plus 6x8, I'm not sure how much square feet that makes it, but hopefully they'll have enough room. We're hoping to raise two Turkeys as well, but won't buy those until later in the spring (don't want them to big).

Your 6x8 coop is 48 square feet and your run is 128 square feet. Your coop and run can comfortably hold 12 chickens. I'm not sure the square footage requirements for a turkey.

 

[urbanlayers]

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We're building the coop 6x8, and the run should be about 8x10 plus 6x8, I'm not sure how much square feet that makes it, but hopefully they'll have enough room. We're hoping to raise two Turkeys as well, but won't buy those until later in the spring (don't want them to big).

Your 6x8 coop is 48 square feet and your run is 128 square feet. Your coop and run can comfortably hold 12 chickens. I'm not sure the square footage requirements for a turkey.

Well it was cold and rainy, so we only worked half a day in the garage. We got the roof assembled and the floor framed out. Lots more to do, but we're gonna wait until it warms up again before doing a lot more. I hope our girls don't out grow their swimming pool before it warms back up.

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[Suburban chick farmer 09]

Nice start urbanlayers. If they get to big for the pool you can use cardboard boxes.