Growing The Coop

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We have some chickens that are getting older.
I bought 12 yesterday. They wont meet the older chickens for a couple months yet.

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Very nice Rick, those are some great looking birds.

We added 8 chicks and 3 ducks yesterday. We have the same issue with some birds getting older.
 
Awesome Rick, we'll be ready for some new birds in a year or two. Sure is nice having fresh eggs 👍
 
Yeah we are going to take the wood coop down, we got another 20' run and going to hook together, enclose the sides with fiberglass panels for the winter. The wood just dont hold up good here. Looked at an amish built coop, they fiberglass the floor and half way up the walls but I dont want to spend 4500. For that price a can buy a dedicated bread oven.
 
Yeah we are going to take the wood coop down, we got another 20' run and going to hook together, enclose the sides with fiberglass panels for the winter. The wood just dont hold up good here. Looked at an amish built coop, they fiberglass the floor and half way up the walls but I dont want to spend 4500. For that price a can buy a dedicated bread oven.

Have a bully shed that’s a plastic shell and when cold have a heat lamp for the girls. There is enough room in there for 15 chickens comfortably… then have a few corner beds for the ducks.

Our run is 40 foot long, so they have plenty of room!

Sounds like your setup is similar… minus the ducks.

I like the approach you’re taking. We have tarps now… but those only last so long.
 
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My adopted kids back home expanded their layers count last fall.
I trade them sausage and other goodies for eggs.

Got a couple places a few miles from here that sell cackle berries. Wife won't get from them after getting a balut one time.

I wish our ordinance would allow raising chicks, would be fun.
For some reason I though you lived out of town.
 
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My adopted kids back home expanded their layers count last fall.
I trade them sausage and other goodies for eggs.

Got a couple places a few miles from here that sell cackle berries. Wife won't get from them after getting a balut one time.


For some reason I though you lived out of town.
I am, in a cul-de-sac with 6 other neighbor families. Our township bylaws say no livestock including chickens and ducks.😒.
May bring it up again at the next powwow.. Nobody out here would give a hoot.
 
Yeah we are going to take the wood coop down, we got another 20' run and going to hook together, enclose the sides with fiberglass panels for the winter. The wood just dont hold up good here. Looked at an amish built coop, they fiberglass the floor and half way up the walls but I dont want to spend 4500. For that price a can buy a dedicated bread oven.
I lived in that area 45 years ago. Ground rarely freezes in the winter. How much winter protection do you need?
I am, in a cul-de-sac with 6 other neighbor families. Our township bylaws say no livestock including chickens and ducks.😒.
May bring it up again at the next powwow.. Nobody out here would give a hoot.
Are you under the township of Jamestown (or whatever incorporated town)?
If your cul-de-sac has an HOA they might be favorable if you offered them first sell of eggs.
 
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I am, in a cul-de-sac with 6 other neighbor families. Our township bylaws say no livestock including chickens and ducks.😒.
May bring it up again at the next powwow.. Nobody out here would give a hoot.
That sucks there was at one time talk of making a federal law allowing chickens at any private residence but that was as far as it got talk but no action. There was talk of the same thing for bees but again it went no where
 
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I would love to have chickens. No ordinance against them, just the winters and critters. Bears, mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats, and now a wolf in the area. I'm sure others wolves will start popping up. Aside from the critters, our winters are the main reason. It would cost too much to keep them warm. I'd even love some goats, but more the critters than the winters make it not worth it.
 
We are still rural, cows, goats, chickens, donkeys around us.

And deer, turkeys, there is a bear around but has not yet come to get the chickens.
 
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I lived in that area 45 years ago. Ground rarely freezes in the winter. How much winter protection do you need?

Are you under the township of Jamestown (or whatever incorporated town)?
If your cul-de-sac has an HOA they might be favorable if you offered them first sell of eggs.
We are in that township (Midway), and no HOA.
Got 1.5 acres so it's not like we are sitting in each others laps. Everyone is at least .75 acres
 
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