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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Next time I go to D&D I'll check for you and get a few pictures maybe hubby will go sometimes in the next few days, but I bet if you call the feed store they would text some pictures of them for you. But I will try to get in there sometimes, but I really try to stay away from D&D, lol.. |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | oh a word of advice. yes you need a coop for six chickens but you had better build for 10-12 they are addicting... |
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Location: Central Texas | Southtxponygirl - 2016-01-04 12:50 PM kwanatha - 2016-01-04 12:42 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-01-04 10:33 AM kwanatha - 2016-01-04 11:49 AM Dash4KJ - 2016-01-04 8:44 AM Yall are awesome! I have chainlink dog kennel panles left over from the house we bought. Can i lay chicken wire inside of that and use for a pen that would be attached to the coop? I have all kinds of questions about chickens :) Ive never been able to have them until now. So any info is welcomed!! Feel free to post pics of your set ups and your chickens! :) i have seen chain link that was stretched apart by raccoons and entire flock was killed
Hubby made the dog kennel out of the small squares panels like you see cattle panels but the real small squares and have a cement floor in part of it. But sometimes this summer hes going to build a different coop to make it look like a rustic little house.
I let my chickens out first thing in the mornings and they are all over the the place out here, the only thing I have to worry about is the hawks, I have dogs so they pretty much get the hunger beasts away, we have so many coyotes running threw the night out here that the coons dont come around very much. I do have coons that come into my hay barn and eat all my cat food.. Dang it..
I had never noticed a racoon problem at our place until about a year after we got the chickens. I'm pretty sure that once one coon found the free night time buffet he sent a message to all his friends. I ended up killing about 5 coons and two opossums in a matter of two weeks. Eventually the coons won and killed all my chickens. So I built my next one like Fort Knox. I have had chickens in the new housing structure for almost a year and nothing has been able to get in. I have seen coon tracks around the barn but they were not able to get in.
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| I made this one for my 6 chickens-really easy:)
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | teed - 2016-01-04 1:38 PM I made this one for my 6 chickens-really easy:)
I really like that. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I talked to Andy {hubby} and he has a customer that builds portable chicken coops here in Seguin and this man even supplys chickens to go with the coops, I will get his number for you and sent to you threw a PM, I'm waiting on pictures of some of the coops that he builds and if I get a chance tomorrow I will go see what they look like in person.. |
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| GraciousLegacy - 2016-01-04 3:06 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2016-01-04 12:50 PM kwanatha - 2016-01-04 12:42 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-01-04 10:33 AM kwanatha - 2016-01-04 11:49 AM Dash4KJ - 2016-01-04 8:44 AM Yall are awesome! I have chainlink dog kennel panles left over from the house we bought. Can i lay chicken wire inside of that and use for a pen that would be attached to the coop?  I have all kinds of questions about chickens :) Ive never been able to have them until now. So any info is welcomed!!  Feel free to post pics of your set ups and your chickens! :) i have seen chain link that was stretched apart by raccoons and entire flock was killed
Hubby made the dog kennel out of the small squares panels like you see cattle panels but the real small squares and have a cement floor in part of it. But sometimes this summer hes going to build a different coop to make it look like a rustic little house.
I let my chickens out first thing in the mornings and they are all over the the place out here, the only thing I have to worry about is the hawks, I have dogs so they pretty much get the hunger beasts away, we have so many coyotes running threw the night out here that the coons dont come around very much. I do have coons that come into my hay barn and eat all my cat food.. Dang it..
I had never noticed a racoon problem at our place until about a year after we got the chickens. I'm pretty sure that once one coon found the free night time buffet he sent a message to all his friends. I ended up killing about 5 coons and two opossums in a matter of two weeks. Eventually the coons won and killed all my chickens. So I built my next one like Fort Knox. I have had chickens in the new housing structure for almost a year and nothing has been able to get in. I have seen coon tracks around the barn but they were not able to get in. Â
Coons are so bad! During college I lived in a farm house surrounded by corn fields. The coons were so bad and would try to get in my house! Nothing like waking up in the middle of the night to hear something rip your screen door apart and creeeeek open the porch door....
They would also pee/poo on my pickup and ripped the screens off my trailer trying to get in  |
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| kwanatha - 2016-01-04 4:07 PM
teed - 2016-01-04 1:38 PM I made this one for my 6 chickens-really easy:)
I really like that.
only cost about 250.00 for everything and you can walk in to clean it out-the laying boxes are on the outside-lift the lid and get the eggs:) |
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