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The bigger barrel bolts/padbolts WILL move and stop lining up with the other bit. I buy saddle clamps in a bigger size and replace the original one. You can buy ones that have a bar so you can use it from the other side. I got one for my run. I can shut the run door and get out from the...

I did see some pegs in Bunnings (hardware) the other day. Can't remember what they were called, but basically the same thing. I didn't bother meshing the agapanthus. It's still there, the chickens haven't done much to it. Most of the trampling was by my dog....

Not just purchase price, you have to keep them well-maintained, blades sharp. They can be very dangerous if they aren't looked after.

I have an electric mulcher. It is good for eating leaves and small cuttings and it's nice to be able to keep the mulch on-site. A proper chipper that does big branches is a whole other ballgame.

Mine is just flat/covered with dirt/visible in some spots (next to the gate, around the gateposts, where I had to cut it to make it "turn the corner". It will "bury itself" with soil movement/leaves etc and if you let your girls out (I do), they'll bury it by kicking dirt over the top...

I just want your extra time and your. Kiss. I think you are meant to keep him. He wouldn't like other people nearly as much as he likes you.

I'd be annoyed too, they are just idiots. You get that a lot when dealing with "the general public". A lot of idiots, but hopefully some sensible people in there as well. Over here, we pay a few hundred to get a moggy from the rescue people/cat orphanage. People pay THOUSANDS for purebred...

Do they know what they are looking at back home? Anything to deal with at their place(s) or did they come through (relatively) unscathed?

or bite through wire/point of weakness. Any of those determined murderous predators, having 2 barriers instead of 1 is a good idea, I think.

It depends on where you live and what predators you have to consider. I also never shut the door, but I'm in a suburban area with very few potential critters to worry about.

hahahaha, but there's a bit of a difference. They sell tiny coops, people get chickens and then they feel bad and go and buy a bigger coop. You buy a do-dad that doesn't work, you bundle it up and take it back for a refund. It isn't gonna get them anything except headaches to sell a crappy...

Yes, I think it would. I think the only issue is to set it so that everyone is inside before it shuts at night and once the girls get used to it, they are pretty much trouble-free. It would also be nice to have it when it's rainy or cold so you don't have to go out to the coop to shut the...

I don't have one, but I believe they are very reliable. If they weren't, retailers wouldn't keep selling them, we "chicken people" wouldn't stand for having our "babies" locked in or out if it malfunctioned. :D The mechanism is very simple and a basic timer is also simple. I've had my lights...

You mean coop-building assistants? :D

Can I just say that I think nurses are just as, if not more, important than doctors? They are the ones who are around all day and doing all the work, doctors just swan in and see you for five minutes. If anyone's going to notice that you are turning blue and things aren't going right, it's the...

Aside from accommodating the lid, is there a reason for the sloping top? Could you just have a square drawer with a "hunk" cut out of the front so they can climb in?

Thanks for posting it. It's very good advice. I also don't go anywhere near my tools when I "just want to get this finished" before it gets dark, or before I have to go somewhere or any kind of pressure to "hurry up". I will only get gear out when I've got open-ended time and won't have...

Woohoo! It'll soon be moving in day for the girls.

If you are in an area where that might happen,eg raise your coop if you live on a floodplain. I live in a dry climate and not in a low-lying area, BUT I have a sewer main running across the back of my property which recently blocked up (it only had water coming out of it, not sewage). I've...

I've seen hoppers like that and they've had a piece of plexiglas screwed to the front where the red line is. I suppose it controls the amount in the feed trough without impeding the "dropping" from above as a thick "bit" would.