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One can either raise chickens in their home OR have a clean home but you cant have both at the same time. Ive been saying that in these groups for a long time and people laugh. If you have a furnace you are raising chickens in EVERY room of your home.

One can either raise chickens in their home OR have a clean home but you cant have both at the same time. Ive been saying that in these groups for a long time and people laugh.

I belong to several chicken groups and Ive seen a pattern. I will preface this by saying, I helped raise our first flock of chickens 50 years go. We would raise between 50 and 100 birds a year. This year we are at a new location and I built a new coop and run for 24 dual purpose birds. Raising...

We evicted the protein today.

Tomorrow we will move the 7 week old protein from the brooder to the coop. Today I finished adding the sand to the run and did a little more back filling of the job site around the coop and run to make sure we have good drainage away from the structure.

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We would like to free range the chickens in the summer but the eagles, hawks, coyotes, foxes, weasels, etc means we would likely suffer some losses in the flock. If I cant let them get to the outside salad bar, I will bring a salad bar to them in the run. If these two boxes are a success, I...

Ive tested it at 8 feet. You are mistaken. It works as designed at 8 feet.

The floor is vinyl over fiberglass over plywood.

The latest chicken coop accessory I made for my wife. We will be raising 24 birds and the coop is nearly completed. I hoped to make her life easier. I wake up some mornings and roll over in bed and look at her and think to myself, just how lucky she is.

Today I added some roosts in the run.

We are getting closer to putting the protein out into the coop and run. Since it was a rainy day, I made 2 feeders and 2 waterers. One of each is in the brooder and they have taken to them very well. We will be able to remove the chick feeders and waterers from the brooder. These are no...

Its spring so we are spiting our time between expanding the garden space on the homestead and finishing the coop and run. The chicks wont go in the coop for another week or two so I wanted to get the sand in the coop so it was dry by the time the chicks are added. When we add the 24 chicks...

You do you. You do not have to like or agree with these cold hard truths. But there is no need for you to get emotional or upset for having read words on a screen (you read them on a voluntary basis.) In the future you may wish to not read what I write in an effort to spare your feelings.

I do both, preemptive killing of known predators and predator proofing. Anything that would threaten my flock will perish. You do not have to agree or like it.

yes, you will learn at some point. You did not read my post about predator proofing. Do that first but be of the mindset that eliminating predators is needed. This is MY HABITAT. I OWN IT. Its no longer their habitat.

Are you mentally prepared to raise animals? After all, this is a matter of life and death. I was raised on a farm. We raised beef, chickens (lots of chickens) pigs, rabbits, pheasants as well as a massive garden that fed the 8 of us. We lived remote/rural. Likewise we hunted and fished for our...

when we put up the deer fence around the garden, I bought the black version because they claimed that from a distance you cant see the mesh (they were correct, it cant be seen) When I put the shiny galvanized mesh on the chicken coop/run, it blocked the view through the mesh. Because I have an...

As the post said, "one pic is a test to see if folks are paying attention."