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    It's been a very rough first year with chickens. Anyone else?

    Yes unfortunately sometimes the first year is the hardest. My first spring I lived with a shovel in my hand digging drainage ditches, building dams and adding gutters to my run. My first summer I spent my time adding screen doors and shade curtains. and buying a barn fan. My first fall I...
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    Thoughts & advice on my coop ventilation?

    Yes, good point. If it's blowing rain the rain might come in if one is pointed south or west. Same for the windows but those are easily closed in bad weather. Sorry. I have a large overhang. I forget others may not.
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    Thoughts & advice on my coop ventilation?

    Where you have those small rectangular vents needs to be the whole triangle panel on both sides. At least make it go all the way across. You can always cover them when it gets cold. Your issue is heat right now. Love the windows. Can you add more? when they go up for the night, look in...
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    Cooling coop

    Your not being a nervous Nellie. Heat is a real danger for chickens. I've never list one to cold but I have to heat. Does your coop have enough ventilation?
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    They chew through hardware cloth?!?

    A trail camera or something similar will let you know what your dealing with. Beautiful coop.
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    Extreme heat issues

    I have curtains on the west side of my (roofed) run and I have a barn fan on a lawn chair blowing through the coop. Water water water. I have 9 hens, 1 rooster , 2 dittles and 7 gallons of water throughout the run and yard.
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    enrichment/enclosure for indoor setup (plants,toys, etc)

    Also please note that only the quail people have said go ahead and do it. Nothing against quail, but quail are not chickens. Please, if there are indoor chicken keepers please speak up. Now I'm not talking about caring for a special needs bird or the over wintering of seramas temporarily.
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    Our $2,000 egg!!!!!

    Congrats on your first "free" egg.
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    Auto Coop Door options

    I also have omelet. Two of them. One on the run one on the coop. The one on the run is close the ground so it does sometimes not close all the way due to debris in the track. It will open and close a few times and then close as much as it can. The one on the coop has closed on a chicken...
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    First egg!!!!

    First eggs are so exciting. The ladies even look proud and wondering why your so excited! Congrats.
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    Elderly hen

    The lovely lady is making her way out. As long as she is not getting picked on let her enjoy her friends on her last days. I had to move my lady to a prefab in the yard due to our hormone fueled teenage rooster trying to take her out. She spent her last couple of days tooling around the yard...
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    2 broody hens

    Yall they pulled off a miracle! I have a live chick! I was sure there was no way any were going to hatch after the shenanigans those two were pulling. Both getting on the eggs then nobody on the eggs. One of the eggs disappearing all together. I went out to give them their eviction...
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    Just moved to coop

    Make them a box anyway. It will help until you or the dogs can get to them. I only tell you this from experience. I want you and your babies to get off to a good start.
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    Just moved to coop

    OK your going to need to put a panic box in there. They are NOT going to run up the ramp to escape with a hawk standing on top of that run. They have to be able to get out of sight or the hawk will just chase them into exhaustion and die.
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    Just moved to coop

    Do you have a way to get them out from under the coop? When you let peepers out that is going to ring the dinner bell and whatever comes will scare them under there.
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