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Yes, exactly. I plan on having double decker pens for the serama trios and then they will have individual runs. On top of that I figured I could build broody pens. Also storage for things like crates for carrying to shows. it is going to be great and I want to make sure to use every square inch to the best possible way I can.

Wow!  I've been gone for 2 days.  I'm way behind on reading posts.  I am truly stunned how much my chicks have changed in the last two days.  If they were not in my kennel, I would not have even recognized them.  My EE is feathering beautifully.  I think she's growing her beard back, too.  She's getting a fuzzy face again.  I'm looking forward to giving them some time out of the kennel tomorrow.   They've been cooped up 2 days to long.
 

Hi itsren! Welcome back. Did your mom's move go well? My EEs beards are coming in as well, it's adorable!! They're all getting huge and sick of the coop, LOL! But VelvettFog is coming next month to build us a run!! Woohoo!!

That is one nifty-cool contraption!

Teresa, I'm all et up with envy: lovely structure and oh, my, to have reliable help!

The hired hand and I got all but the last stretch of wire on the Hamburg extension Tuesday, but the last bit is way off the ground and nobody at all thinks I should be working on ladders when I'm here by myself. So it waits until I have the hand back (not until the second week in June, earliest) or I can beg help from the youth of America.

 So what is the difference between a regular nesting box and a broody pen?

 Here is the link to chicken poo pictures http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

 

I also found this "The ceca [part of the colon] empty their contents two or three times a day, producing pasty droppings that often smell worse than regular droppings and often mustard to dark brown in color. The frequency of cecal droppings, as well as their appearance among regular droppings, tells you the chicken’s digestive tract is functionally normally."

 

So, smelly mustardy droppings are NORMAL. Which is good to know because I thought my birds were sick, too - but they aren't acting sick.

Edited by Teva - 5/21/12 at 1:17am

I don't know if that is what they are really called - just what I call them. I sometimes order eggs and they can be expensive and I want the best hatch rate I can get and I don't want any accidents or other hens laying more eggs in the nest or trying and breaking the eggs I put under her. If I get a broody hen I will lock her up in a pen or separate cage and put the eggs I want under her. then when she has hatched I let her stay separated as I want to make sure no one is hurt or gets killed by another hen. Just a separate place for her to hatch her eggs where she will not be bothered by the rest of the pen.

192 ft/sq.  It is 24x8

 

Or paint it gloss white and use it as a projection screen for outside movie watching!  (or as the boys said - Xbox ! )