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No bottoms to coops. They’re the pre-fab kind. Perhaps ONCE WE’VE DRIED OUT I could set them on pallets, but that won’t be for a week or more.

No because the coops are SMALL. The bottom is like 3'x3'.

.....survive wading through a flooded coop? I live in Huntsville Texas which has gotten RECORD amounts of rain (like we're up to almost 30" for the month of May) and flooding and where the coops are is a depression spot so completely covered with 1"-2" of water. They can get into the upper loft...

Had chicks hatched March 20 in a coop. Guess I didn't count right when I left them out roaming the back yard around April 25and they were 5 weeks oldish. One didn't get into the coop and took up residence in a big bush/shrub in the corner of our lot. She survived by herself 2 weeks out there...

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I would toss it. THe whole bag. And get a garbage can or something else to store it in for the future.

Speckles for any that are speckled black/white. Salt for a white one. Cinnamon or Nutmeg for a brown one (see a theme here?!) Petunia to go with Poppy.

Well I tried it this afternoon and it worked out wonderfully. I let them out about 3:30 and they stayed in the general area of the coop until they all went back inside about 7:30. I counted and they all made it in. They sure enjoyed scratching in the new places and eating the newly mowed grass.

I bought 18 EE mutts as 1-week old SR chicks for $45 off CL n thought I got a very good deal.

Hi all! I have a group of a dozen EE's that are 5 weeks old. They've been out of the brooder in the coop area for 2 weeks now and not under any heat. (We're in Texas). Wondering when I can start letting them free range in our 1.2 acre yard? They seem so young, although they're fully feathered. I...

chicks have found a new home.

I’m sorry you’re not closer too. ☹️

Huntsville Texas. I have 2 naked neck chicks that were hatched on March 20 and are healthy n off the heat lamp. They hatched from eggs I got that are mixed breed. Covered by a Easter Egger so may throw blue-green eggs. Don't know sex of either. Again--free. I just don't like naked neck looks is...

Someone that raises both turkeys and chickens told me this today. She got turkeys a couple of years ago and last year and they kept dying around 4 weeks old. All of them. Trying to investigate why(she lives near East Texas), she was told turkeys catch a disease from chickens that is fatal to...

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