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After reading about a lot of coop and run designs, I decided to add an extra separate 4'x10' run and small coop. It seems important to be able to occasionally separate a chicken or two if there are problems or I need to introduce a new bird into the flock. I figured it was better to do it now...

It's only been dark for an hour and a half, my wife has asked me to check on the chicks in the coop 3 times already lol. It's gonna be a long, anxious night! First night away from mommy haha.

Thanks for the tips on predator proofing. I am going to work on that next. Finished putting the walls and roof on today, filled it with pine shavings and my chickies seemed to like it, they spent a bit of time throwing shavings and playing before heading back out into the run. And I blocked off...

That was kinda the idea, the fenced run is really an extension of the coop, that's where the food and water is. As hot as it gets here I doubt they will want to sleep in it much, but I figured I should give them the option.

That's really all I am planning on having, and right now I am looking at giving away most of my flock as the get a little older, I don't need 6 roosters (bad luck with straightrun batches lol)

Building a coop for my young flock. I used an old frame of a 10x10 shader(?) to create their run, I did that a few weeks ago, thinking the babies would stay small a bit longer (yeah, I'm new to this). Starting last week I have been taking my older 5 outside to the run during the day, they have...