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We're fans of puns here, so naturally: Chickney Spears Layonce Hen Stefani Hennifer Lopez We also previously had: Chicki Minaj Eggstina

Think everything I've seen has always made it seem like a secure building = coop and anything outside even if fenced = run. I was really struggling to put the 4 square feet area together with the 8/10 inches of roost space!

It's secured at enough points to walls/the ground that it should withstand our local weather. It's often windy but never the extremes other places can see. The cloth went around as a second layer, rather than replacing, as it was easier to do. Still secured to the frame rather than the wire...

This is an old pic, pre hardware cloth upgrade. Plan was to install something back left to provide winter roosting. Temps go to around -5C at worst. Winds tend to come from left and back of the picture, so they're protected from brunt of it. They're allowed to roam the garden too.

Thanks for this- So we're UK based, and our set-up is similar to the hoop tractor picture (using 2x old plastic greenhouses). What we're trying to do is then create a more sheltered area purely for roosting at night with winter coming. Currently they roost on various perches, or in the prefab...

The kennel is 22" at the edge of the roof, ends about 12" higher. Moot given sounds we need a bigger building. My mistake was I assumed the area they'd sleep in was dependent on the roosting space per chicken, not the 4 sq foot, if it's part of a wider secure set-up.

We have it ordered, but not picked-up yet. We can change size/order a bigger one if needed (sounds like it is). We had read comments from peple who had converted a similar size into a hen house, though again, sounds like they're underspacing. To clarify- this will be secured with hardware cloth...

Hello, We've recently bought a plastic kennel to convert into a coop (we started out with a pre-fab which which is rather snug, as we'd have known if I'dhave joined here pre chicken ownership!) and are looking to fit in some roost bars. The kennel is 30" deep by 32" wide (22" high before roof...

Thanks. The dogs are actually great with them. One just watches them, whilst the other is obsessed. Took a bit of training at first as he just wants to sniff them. Our original birds and him got used to each other, and he'd occasionally wander over to sniff them and they'd just keep about their...

Cluckingham Palace!

Thanks- was probably a bad turn of phrase. The reinforced meant to stop chickens getting through the plastic. Thankfully, there aren't many predators beyond local cats, and the coop itself is secure at night (and they tend to avoid our garden, presumably due to the dogs). Will definitely look...

Hi everyone, I'm Chris- my wife and I are based in the UK (Scotland) and currently have 4 hens. We started with 3 back in the spring, and lost 2 of them in the last couple of months (one due to some unknown sudden illness, and one to egg peritonitis). We've just got another 3 (a white star, a...