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stegmanjessica 
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 Topic: Progress on our new chicken run PICSPosted: 15 Jun 2012 at 6:43pm |
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I am chatty in the Washingtonian thread on Backyardchickens.com. So a bunch of us west-of-the-mountains folk needed projects done and someone from Yakima (about 2.5 hour away over the pass) offered to come and make a huge long weekend trip to complete all of our project. Mine was first!
 He arrived around dinner time last night with his wife and their 28' trailer. Sized up the project and got to work! The chicken run will be 8'x16', with a sloped roof. Bottom part is hardware cloth to keep out the rodents and keep the chicks in, top part is galvanized 2x4" fencing to keep out the racoons. Just last night, after dinner:   Today, around noon:  This guy is super friendly as is his wife, not charging me a dime (me and the other 3 families are giving him gas money and house-sitter money, that's it!). We are feeding them dinners while they're here! I can't wait for the roofing to start coming together, he's almost done!! Then he will retrofit the coop to have external nest boxes, a waist high poop shelf with 2 parallel roosts above it, and more ventilation. Pretty cool huh?? 4pm!!!!  Edited by stegmanjessica - 15 Jun 2012 at 8:09pm |
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Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 6:45pm |
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very awesome!
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Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 8:11pm |
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that looks great.
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Posted: 15 Jun 2012 at 10:49pm |
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Seriously?! That is so sweet of them! What a great coop & run you will have. Sure wish mine was more rodent proof- I just saw 2 mice.
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Erin, happy wife of Jason (7/21/07) and mama to Abram (3/09) and Adrie (6/11).
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 12:48am |
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Wow! I am sure they will enjoy it!
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 11:45am |
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Very nice! So nice of them to do that for people.
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 9:11pm |
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Bumping for finished product :) I aboslutely love our run. Now the birds will have a nice dry place to be OUTDOORS all winter long. We simply have too much rain to keep happy chickens unless there is sufficient covered outdoor space.
Here's Dave...he's a chicken whisperer, NO JOKE!  That bird won't come anywhere near me and he just walked right up to her and clicked a bunch and picked her up! She then sat on him for 10 minutes! External nest boxes, AKA: A convenient shelf to set our junk until they're laying  Pardon my thumb...  The very end, with a people-door:  The girls (just 8 of them, not the 2 I got today):  |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 10:02pm |
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Looks like they are enjoying themselves!
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Erin, happy wife of Jason (7/21/07) and mama to Abram (3/09) and Adrie (6/11).
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Posted: 16 Jun 2012 at 10:30pm |
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That looks really nice! I bet you'll have some happy birds!
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Posted: 17 Jun 2012 at 2:27pm |
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Very nice. They seam to like it, too.
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Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 1:00pm |
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Just some minor improvements in the run; we hang the feeder and added a roost. In the coop we removed a high shelf and added a low one, with 2 parallel roosts above that! I'm loving it all now :)
 
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Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 1:21pm |
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VERY nice!!
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Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 9:16pm |
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Wow! Looks awesome! I'm sure the girls will love it!
So did you wind up keeping your coop or is this a new one? I need to take some pics of mine to post... DH did an awesome job and it turned out so cute! :) |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2012 at 9:29pm |
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Meghan - That's the original coop, we kept it.
We can't fit any more birds in it (at least, I don't want to) because right now with 10 of them they'll have about 3.5s/f per bird inside. On the roost, they each have 12". Technically, since the run is also predator proof, it we ever have to keep them locked up (like on days like today, SUPER stormy and too wet to allow them in the yard), they still have 16.3s/f per bird of confined space in the coop/run combined. We also plan next year to get THIS smaller coop and attach it to the run for broodies to use. If more than 2 girls get broody, the ones I don't think will make good mamas will go to "broody jail" until they're broken back to normal. |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2012 at 5:28pm |
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Wow I love it!!! So nice!
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Posted: 30 Jun 2012 at 6:32pm |
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wow!!! that is soo nice Jess!
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