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My "wonderful" chicken coup really sucks. I went to HD today and bought a few more pieces of lumber to shore up the walls on the pen and the legs on the coup. and I'm putting wheels on the coup for moving in the yard. Just wanted you to know I was too hasty with the wonderful review on my chicken coup and pen!
He who hoots with owls at night cannot soar with the eagles in the morning.
He who hoots with owls at night cannot soar with the eagles in the morning.
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Chickens aren't too fussy about their housing. Usually if it keeps the rain and most of the wind off and has a place to roost and nest, they're good with it. We had a renovated dog kennel at our last house that was the chicken coop. It was three feet up off the ground so the mongoose couldn't get in but the chickens could jump up into it. Had a wire floor so everything fell through. Tin roof of course, old coffee tree trunks for perches. A couple of boxes on the side to lay eggs in and they were happy with it. We usually left the door open and they'd put themselves in there at night. The back yard was fenced and our own chicken friendly dogs patrolled it so the chickens were pretty safe as long as they stayed in the back yard. We did lose a whole chicken tractor of half grown birds when the tractor was made without a place for the birds inside to fly up away from mongoose, though. They were trapped in the tractor and the mongoose killed all ten of them and ate the crops. Probably something in half digested crop contents that mongoose need in their diet or something.
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson
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It hadn't really occurred to me why there were fewer eggs being laid recently until yesterday I found a dozen eggs underneath some ferns nearby the "chicken palace". So much for chicken housing. I don't know which one/ones were laying them or for how long. I'm just surprised that no mongoose had helped themselves to some free eggs.
