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So we had a hen that was sick who is now getting much better. It was raised with the other 5 from chick stage. Last weekend my wife decided to just drop the quarantined chicken back into the extended run with the other 5. As you can imagine chaos ensued and the quarantined chicken got beat up a...

LSD chickens! SWEET! Seriously though it looks good but I'm not sure your roosting situation versus ventilation is going to work out.

Here's our set up. 6x6 coop with attached 6x10 run, with a fenced in 24'x36' area to let them out in when we are home.

No worries, I'll talk to you again November 8th. :D

Another month....

Will the results be posted in this thread or a different one? I don't expect to win anything I'm just curious to see results.

Am I reading right, you have air conditioning in your coop?

Just as an update we've been emptying the bags in a tub of water and giving them to the chickens. Some bugs are alive, most are dead. The chickens go at them with a passion. No problems a week in.

Thanks Tink! Anyone else have any experience?

Title says it all. We've got those hanging bag traps to lure Japanese Beetles from our garden and fruit trees. Is it OK to feed them to our chickens? It would be a mix of dead and mildly dead. FWIW there are no toxins in the traps. Its a citronella smelling lure that baits the beetles and they...

I'd beef the run up some but it looks good.

So we've got a couple apple trees and every year in early to mid spring some small non mature apples drop off to the ground. I'm wondering if we cut them into manageable pieces if they're ok to give to the chickens. We already give them a wide variety of scraps but the wife was worried for...

I agree with what was said by a poster on the first page, I seriously doubt that many folks on this site truly free range their chickens. I think most folks have some kind of confined space, regardless of the size. Me personally, I have a 6x10 run attached to the 6x6 coop for 6 hens. My...

Looks very nice. Looks like a similar build to mine minus the concrete.

You and me both! I'm glad they work for OP and they're happy but that price is insane.

Looks good but as someone else said thats going to be a nightmare if you ever have to go under the coop for any reason at all.

Looks good!

Just an update, this set up is still working after the couple months or so since I first posted this. I highly suggest this for anyone else with a similar situation. And we did go with some pavers at the bottom of the fence. Thats working great.

Do you get just the poop or did you have any straw or bedding mixed in?

We decided to get serious about gardening this season and yesterday I tilled up a 8x55' plot, or at least broke ground. Still a lot more tilling to do. Mrs Raptor brought up trying to use the chicken poop as fertilizer. We use straw in our coop so any poop we got would be mixed with straw. Any...