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It really pains me to have to do this, but due to unforeseen events, we find we must downsize within the next couple of months, so I need to find homes for our girls. I really hate to do this, but the town we’re moving back to doesn’t allow chickens at all. We have one that started laying, but...

:D:D Daisy, our Dark Cornish is the first of our flock of 8 to lay eggs. She must have laid one yesterday as there was a cold one in the nesting box. I imagine it froze overnight, since it was 24 when we got up. I know it’s not a huge deal, but I half expected them not to lay until spring. Large...

After what seems like forever, our girls are finally in their real coop and run. It’s going to take a little while to get them used to the automatic door. It closes at 5 p.m. and they’re not used to going to bed until 5:30 or so. I’m working on getting them used to coming in by giving them a...

This coop is nearly finished. It’s been in the works intermittently since July, but we put up a new studio that took up the entire summer. All of the exterior studio stuff is done, so the past few days I’ve been working on completing the coop. I ordered an automatic door that I roughed in, but...

I recently purchased 8 5x6 foot Retriever welded wire dog run panels. They’re made with 1.25” tubing and 8-gauge welded wire. They will form 3 sides of my run, attaching one on each side of my 6 foot wide coop and running back from there. An adjacent 16 foot long shed will form the third side. I...

These crazy birds are still stuck in their 3x5 temporary coop, but are getting some supervised time in the former dog run. So far, I’m not seeing any saddle feathers so I have my fingers crossed.

I posted this coop repurpose before, but it’s here now and I actually have time to work on it. I’m trying to figure out the best ventilation I can. It is 6x6x8 at the peak. I have 8 pullets, so if I understand correctly, I need 1 sq ft (144 sq inches) per bird minimum, which comes up to 1152 sq...

My coop-to-be was delivered yesterday and placed alongside an existing shed. Because the area was muddy after rain and unfortunately had a ton of broken glass, I had about 6" of earth scraped off and 4"-6" or so of gravel put down. The area is 10'x16'. I plan to roof over a portion and fence it...

We have 4 4 week old chicks which were supposed to be pullets. I think the one oin the foreground is a Silver-laced Wyandotte, but not sure of the one in the background. She (or he) is supposed to be either a Dark Cornish or a Welsummer. I've looked at other threads, but I can't figure it out.

So, this weekend we built a temporary but practically palatial coop for our chicks. They’ve been getting pretty rowdy, and with 3 dogs the situation was shaky. Their new brooder/coop is 3x5 with a roost and room to run around. We kept the plate brooder in there since it was 55 last night and...

I was cleaning out the pool they stay in and decided to give them their first trip Outside. They seem to be enjoying themselves quite a bit. The grass there was just cut this morning. How long should I leave them out?

We're new chicken keepers(8 8-day old chicks). We'd planned on building a coop, but happened on this 6x6 playhouse(at a discount!) that only needs a little altering to make it a great chicken coop. We figured that we could easily have spent more on time, lumber and mistakes than we spent on this...

We’ve had our new chicks for 8 days. They’re growing faster than I imagined they would, so we had to move them from their small bin...it’s amazing what you can do with a kiddie pool, 2 hula hoops, a roll of hardware cloth and lots of zip ties. We’ll know each other really well by the time the...

Hi All, I’m a self-employed wire artist and instructor. My partner and I have an acre and a half of rural-ish property surrounded by woods in Western PA. We’re half an hour outside of Pittsburgh with assorted cats, dogs, fish pond and lots of wildlife. We just ordered our first chicks and want...