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- Jun 17, 2024
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I'm sorry I have confused everyone with my earlier post. It sounded right in my head but I think I kept part in my head and typed the rest.
Ok. What I would like to do is get one of the biggest prefab wire coops or greenhouses that will fit fairly close to house. All the coops come with either dog wire or chicken wire. I prefer 1/4" because of little critters like snakes(copperheads, black, King, garter) Others are raccoons, coyotes, hawks, owls. I live in very southern central VA 5 miles from NC zone 7. If I got a chicken coop, how high would I need to run the 1/4" wire up the sides and would the chicken/ dog wire work for owls and hawks? I'm hoping I have room to have the coop just outside yard fence. Layers are inside that fence along with raised bed gardens. I saw some houses, square, plenty of ventilation, but much lower to the ground. But 2 together, making sure there's support for the load bearing walls would be a nice size for them. I'd build it myself but my back and shoulder are all messed up & need surgery, but my dad was a carpenter.
I plan on getting meat chicks early spring if we have one or around 04152025, cold hardening in garden house and then moving them to their permanent home. I'll be getting a couple of rooster chicks at the same time I'm sure & keep the best one because I like them to hatch some too.
Will probably free range them also, but since I want to raise chicks, they would have their own rooster. Could I just leave him in the coop while the hens free ranged?
I would like nice breeds but not orps, australopes (my layers & pets) or CX- they grow fast but so uncomfortably. I'll be sending them to chicken heaven myself, I've done all that before.
Do y'all have any suggestions on breed? One grandmother had brownish tan and the other white chickens. I don't know what kind they were. I was young and didn't care to know at the time.
Thank y'all so much. You're my brains. I have no family left to ask these things.
