Your dog is obviously untrained and you’re a shitty shot if you still have raccoons going after your chickens.The smell? Depends but accurate.
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critter control
Fly bait mixed with coke or other sugar drink.
Better have some holes dug, you will have a few things to dispose of.
The issue building now is the $11 2x4.![]()
The issue building now is the $11 2x4.![]()
I think my coop is going to be mostly pallets.
Or corrugated tin.
Mill your own? .
Mom and I were talking she was born in Northern NM their chicken coop was built out of logs. Ours when I was a kid was a board and batten shed about 9 x 9 with single heat lamp on the ceiling and a 24' x 24' chicken wire run. I have looked at countless coops in catalogs and builds on line, I have come to the conclusion they aren't for the chickens, but the chickens owners. When their friends and families show up they marvell at how pretty their chicken coop is. Don't get me wrong ther has been some neat stuff out there like the laying boxes that eggs roll out into a trough outside, keeping the chickens from shitting on them, plus you don't have to go inside to get the eggs.
We haven't had any kind of livestock here because it ties you down, but this last year has gotten us to thinking. Like I said earlier I have been studying about Cotrurnix quail, and mom would like to have chickens just to watch, and she likes brown eggs, maybe it is time for a change, we certainly didn't do all the traveling we used to last year.
Then again it is -1 outside and IF we had chickens I would have had to go out side to take care of them today![]()
Agreed that a lot of the fancy coops are more for show than anything. I intend to build something nice, but not over the top.
I just don’t want it looking like a homeless camp in my back yard.
Mom and I were talking she was born in Northern NM their chicken coop was built out of logs. Ours when I was a kid was a board and batten shed about 9 x 9 with single heat lamp on the ceiling and a 24' x 24' chicken wire run. I have looked at countless coops in catalogs and builds on line, I have come to the conclusion they aren't for the chickens, but the chickens owners. When their friends and families show up they marvell at how pretty their chicken coop is. Don't get me wrong ther has been some neat stuff out there like the laying boxes that eggs roll out into a trough outside, keeping the chickens from shitting on them, plus you don't have to go inside to get the eggs.
We haven't had any kind of livestock here because it ties you down, but this last year has gotten us to thinking. Like I said earlier I have been studying about Cotrurnix quail, and mom would like to have chickens just to watch, and she likes brown eggs, maybe it is time for a change, we certainly didn't do all the traveling we used to last year.
Then again it is -1 outside and IF we had chickens I would have had to go out side to take care of them today![]()
Agreed that a lot of the fancy coops are more for show than anything. I intend to build something nice, but not over the top.
I just don’t want it looking like a homeless camp in my back yard.
Secure your heat lamps lol. Coworker got woke up by the fire dept after one of his fell and turned his chicken palace into fried chicken.
Secure your heat lamps lol. Coworker got woke up by the fire dept after one of his fell and turned his chicken palace into fried chicken.
You actually gave some good advice in your post but I am deleting it so I can bust your balls about this.
someone says Lumber is too expensive to build a chicken coop. You suggest they buy or build a sawmill to build a chicken coop. That is fucking hilarious.
Secure your heat lamps lol. Coworker got woke up by the fire dept after one of his fell and turned his chicken palace into fried chicken.
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swhy they make those wire cages for light fixtures
don't see the floodlight sized ones near as often, but you should be using the ceramic resistance wire heaters rather than the floodlight style anyways
[486 said:;n311239]what's to say you can't just use an old minivan shell?
seems to me like it'd be way cheaper than building anything after you sell the engine and/or trans, and sell the cats
got doors that close and shit, nice windows to let the light in...
i thought about that. I think it would be too hot in summer and too cold in the winter.
i thought about that. I think it would be too hot in summer and too cold in the winter.
It hasn’t been above negative 5 here since Friday afternoon, all chickens still alive with no heat. Just get a hardy breed. Too expensive and heating a coop seems to start a lot of fires
You just heat the water and it radiates that much heat? I might try that the water freezing is the most annoying partIf you need to heat a coop its usually not much. I have used a 5gallon bucket of water with an aquarium heater in it thw qater stays around 80 and thats a hell of a heat sink. I have 2 of them in my impromptu greenhouse and when it was 17 the other morning the green house was 42.