Recent content by Dita Orlik

Thank you, and thank you for the chat! Have a great day!

Oh I got you, ok…my perching branches are not round, I split in half over 6” branch and trimmed the edges and smoothed them, it has very slight curb. The round one is in 45° angle to walk up only. The picture showed it weird, I am attaching better one now.

I dont understand what do you mean “With the 2x4 roosts, they can keep their toes covered” ? My branches varies from 3” to 4” wide. So my coop is covered except the 50% of the floor. I cant use the lamp there. When you say bellow zero is that Fahrenheits?

It could have been combination of things. My chickens switch the spots. I would not want to sit on 2 x 4 that's for sure. What kind of heater do you use please when it gets cold in Michigan for chickens?

Actually they live longer in the wild despite the predators. The branches are better because they don't have to stand on the same shaped spot. Therefore, the vet was wrong. Besides, if my chickens don't like it, they can sleep on the trees. They're completely free to do whatever they want. I...

The coop is 4.3”x6.4” inside including 4 corner boxes. Chickens do not stand or sit on the floor, only to eat, drink or go out or in. It is 5 feet above the ground and it is for sleeping only. So they poop through the metal when they perch/sleep 2 feet above it.

Hello. They only sleep there perching on the branches, and go there couple of times a day to eat for couple of minutes (feed and water is on the plywood, so they stand on plywood). The perching branches are above the wire mesh situated that poop fall on and through it. The coop is 5 feet above...

Coop works great, I changed the wire cloth for 1”x1”steel wire mesh and 1”x1/2”flattened expanded sheet (would be better 1.5”x1”) but the sturdy steel wire mesh is perfect. All my chickens are doing great, go to sleep to the coop all of them without any supervision and they have hundreds of...

I agree, but if you make a frame around it and I mean around the flipping part (covering the white frame) lets say 2” deep, not even you will be able to grab it to open.

And what type of cat flap you had? was it hard plastic or that flexible one?

I was thinking of it a while ago. Simple solution is to beef up the outside frame/ the insert so raccoon or me at that point cant grab it to open.

I think because it’s private till published and will not publish till on 12 AM

My chicken opens it. Look at my post.

She did it again today, but that video will show on youtube tomorrow. I am pasting the link for yesterday The motion camera is too slow (Norio), even today (Reolink)) is too slow to to catch it.