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The pens have 1/2" plywood bottoms and I covered with linoleum to protect the wood long-term. I also put a layer of pine shavings bedding inside, the same as I do in the coops. They're kinda like mini coops. I collect and set eggs weekly so however many eggs each hen lays is what I put in the...

I managed to get a picture before the sunset of the first 2 of 10 pens I'm building: The next bank of three pens will be right next to these two but will be free-standing since I don't have a solid wall behind them to attach to, so when you look at it from this angle it'll look like five...

Roger that. You may very well end up with enough cockerels. I used to get Cornish Crosses fairly regularly but lately I've had more than enough cockerels so we've just been using them. The cockerels are actually a lot tastier for a bunch of the dishes my wife makes. At this point we don't have...

That sounds like that'll work. Regarding pens for the future, I have 2 of 10 built so far that are outside the coop/run and are 5'X5'. They only have to be big enough to fit a cock and a hen, and for them to be able to get around a little and spread their wings. So it's feasible to build quite a...

Anytime. Glad to help. Hopefully I didn't confuse things more - I have a tendency to do that sometime. Yeah for the longest time I was trying to think of a way to single breed but the only thing I read about where you could do that was to trap nest, which wasn't something I wanted to do where...

The pens I have for breeding are 5'X5' and will house only one hen each that I'll be breeding until the season is over or I'm done breeding that one particular hen. The cocks get rotated to each hen pen daily. The hens' eggs are fertile from the rotated rooster for several days so this way I...

I don't have anything quite like that but I recently finished a 10X24 coop that has 4 pens and 2 brooder/breeding pens and 4 attached runs. It's not exactly what you described but it might give you some ideas. I'm currently in the process of building attached breeding pens on the sides. I...