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I’ve seen nicer, but they sure are spoiled!!! We have a saying, me and my husband...everything that lives at this address is spoiled. :lau

I count my blessings. I’ve never had predator problems. Occasionally a hawk will get a bird or 2 because they free range, but nothing more serious than that.

That looks really nice!!!

A little bit of both...for eggs and breeding. My New Years resolution was to start operating our ranch like a business. I sold all my goat kids and have a waiting list for next year, we will be selling beef this year. I’m constantly sold out of eggs right now and so we are going to focus on 2...

Y You’ll have to share some pictures

Here’s an example of our window in our coop.

Super excited!!! Found a family with Maran hatching eggs that are reasonablely priced. Their hens have taken grand champion and numerous other awards at the fair for their Marans. Tomorrow I pick up 2 dozen hatching eggs. They will be a variety of blue, black, splash, cuckoo, white and wheaten...

J Just make sure they are off set so you don’t just make it into a wind tunnel. Some natural light from a window would be very beneficial too. I personally wouldn’t do the vents on opposite facing walls in such a small coop. I’d make a vent on the long wall and one on the shorter side. I would...

Thank you very much, it’s definitely taken us a while to figure out what works best. We currently have about 30 hens. We fill the feeder and they usually empty it in 2 days or so. The new coop will be divided in half and most likely have 2 mini coops as well. I want to breed Coronation Lavender...

My husband made the feeder and we cut branches for the roosts. Then he built me a mini coop in the coop for chicks 🐣 It has worked beautifully for integrating them to the flock.

Here’s my nesting boxes with storage underneath. This is what we put the oyster shell in.

We are building a new coop this year as well. My husband is pouring a 10 x 20 concrete slab to build on. I asked how big our coop is now, because I think it's pretty large. He said about 10x12. We built the coop in 2015 and it has evolved many times to where it is now. I'll try to snap some...