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Just saw your reply. I mainly want to replace or increase the flock, I have no aspirations of making money or showing birds. But I do want to breed the best I can, considering that there aren't many Speckled Sussex bantam breeders out there.

You have big plans! I wanted clean-legged bantams, but went with a local breeder of Speckled Sussex for convenience when online hatcheries couldn't meet my needs. I like the idea of breeding replacements, trying to get as close to standard as I can. My straight run was 7 males, 3 females, so I...

From earlier this evening:

Good idea about checking the temperature in the nest boxes. My coop is 16' long x 8' wide, 6' tall in the middle. I used four cattle panels, slightly overlapped, then covered with hardware cloth. If you're interested, the timeline of my build is here...

I like. I have a hoop coop as well, but I live in a hot and humid climate so my shade cloth and tarp don't go all the way to the ground, to allow air flow across the bottom. One thing that I have read is that the nest boxes can get really hot when they're outside the coop, so a shade cloth or...