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KVR -- were those rotten or GTG? You don't have a rooster right so they won't be fertilized, right?

Here is my progress with the coop.

Fenced in.

Door cut.

Water bucket in run with nipples on the bottom -- they were going crazy drinking water today.

I further trimmed the edge of the fencing so that it couldn't be pulled away from the frame. I will be painting the run whenever I get around the buying some white barn paint.

Thanks K. I think they were only going crazy because I don't keep water inside the coop. Not sure if that is a good idea or not but after they drank some water they weren't all rushing it during the day. Yes, birds are getting big. They are funny -- skittish. They hate to be picked up.

We put up some deer fencing on some step in electric plastic fence poles. Pretty cheap and easy to put up and we plan to move this around every week or so. We will see if this holds up to the moving around. The fencing is very weak and is really only there to keep chickens in during the day. We will see if the dog puts up with it. She would rip through it very quickly if she wanted to.

Well, looks like the dog ate a chicken last night. I came home from work and only found 5. Feathers near the area where the dog hangs out.

I am so furious with her but don't know how to reprimand -- can't find the carcass. Today she was out laying but the fence staring at the birds so I gave her a stern no and a shock. We'll see if it does anything but I don't think she is learning anything.