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I brought my micrometer home from work to check the hardware cloth I bought. I didn't go so far as to scrape the coating off to check the bare wire tho.

Your post made me think of this coop kit I saw a while back while researching coops myself. Maybe this can give you some inspiration? I wonder if they steamed and bent the....rafters? Ribs? Not even sure what to call the roof supports...

We use a Run-Chicken auto door. It can run off off the light sensor but you can still program a variable closing delay. I have ours set to close 1 hour after the sensor feels it’s dark enough. Helps if there’s any stragglers or if the weather causes issues.

This is the one I ended up with, very similar to Country Birds. I had it in the coop for over a month and not a single bird used it. They stuck to the large communal one that's built into the shed. So I pulled it out since it was taking up floor space and need to decide what to do with it.

I read some reviews on that style when looking to add nesting boxes myself. Universally people seemed to have problems with the black bottom plastic trays breaking or not staying in place.

Thank you! I started to get worried when she was the only one with out tail feathers!

This chick was hatched May 20th, Meyer hatchery chick if that matters. Her wing feathers are pretty dark and she has zero tail, but her chest feathers look to be coming in cream so I have some hope she is a pullet! And some day she'll have a tail. Maybe? Opinions?

Chick was hatched May 20th. She’s feathering in nicely, but has no tail!

Is there any reason not to use a translucent bucket to hold food? I’m about to drill holes in this one to install feeding ports and hang it in the run. It would be nice to be able to easily see when it needs to be refilled.

I probably should have also specified we have about 6-8 inches of wood chips on top of the gravel. The chickens rarely dig down deep enough to hit rocks.

If you are putting posts in the ground to anchor your fencing you could do as perkolator suggests. If you are building on top of the ground and want things level as possible, 2A modified stone works great to level and compact down to form a base to build on.

I feel like your husband and my father would get along great! My father fired up his bulldozer that hadnt run in at least 5 years to level and tamp down the spot we were putting the coop and the run. It definitely helped with both drainage and making the over all construction easier. Our coop...

Too soon to say if this is barring or not?

Possibly, tho she is the most mellow and laid back of all my chickens. She didn’t fight or care about being brought into the basement and put in a tub of warm water at all. I went back and looked at the coop camera recordings and she does the same thing on the roost at night. Not constantly...

My olive egger has a case of bumblefoot so I’m beginning treatment by soaking in a warm Epsom salt bath. The water is not hot, I’d say comfortably warm to my skin. She stood for a few minutes then sank down and I thought oh she’s enjoying it. Shortly after she stretched her head up and...

I had a shipment of chicks from Meyer Hatchery that included a light brown leghorn and a cream legbar. One survived the trip, one didn't. Trying to figure out which the survivor is. The hatchery says cream legbar. Both just look like brown chipmunks to me. The chick that passed had more tan...

The two survivors are ironically the two smallest chicks of the bunch. A salmon favorelle and a cream legbar. The brooder is about 3.5 ft x 2 ft. The two survivors currently rattle around in it like little ping pong balls. Edit to add: I’m using a heat plate so I don’t think I can easily...

Because some of the chicks I ordered from a 5/20 hatch arrived DOA, the hatchery is shipping me replacements on 6/3. There will be 2 from the 5/20 hatch and 4 from the 6/3 hatch. Can I still raise all the chicks in the same brooder?

Makes sense. One of the DOA chicks had blood around its nares. So even tho the box looked fine, they still could have been knocked around I guess. The hatchery has already been contacted. Since they have a 48 hr live guarantee, they recommended I give the two survivors some time to make sure...

Is it normal for hatcheries to include a heat pack when shipping chicks this time of year? I ordered from this same hatchery this exact same time last year and dont remember a heat pack in that box. Just trying to understand how 4 of 6 chicks could be DOA when the hatchery is one state away...