This side is how we access the coop to feed and water our chicks. We also clean it out from here. Having a raised coop also gives our chickens a shady place during the heat of the day, a place to take their dustbath, and a quick place to run for overhead predators (hawks). They can also run back into the coop.

This side is how we access the coop to feed and water our chicks. We also clean it out from here. Having a raised coop also gives our chickens a shady place during the heat of the day, a place to take their dustbath, and a quick place to run for overhead predators (hawks). They can also run back into the coop.

Showing how we access the nests to gather eggs. Just a quick lift of the hinged lid and we can grab the eggs out. Our chicks are almost 3 months old so we haven't had any eggs yet. This is the first time we have ever raised chickens, but we are truly enjoying it!

Nesting box access.

Our chickens checking out their new roosting playground.

The new chicken playground. It's actually their new outdoor roosting area. They have been roosting on the rims of our large earthy planters. We figured the only way to get them to stay off the planters is to give them their own play area. My husband just built this today. Now we have to see how they take to it. (See our bunny in the center rear of the photo. He visits us every day. He doesn't seem to mind the chickens and they don't seem to mind him either.)

A seabright chick. Not very pretty here, but I think she's adorable. She grew up to be a beauty!

An Americauna chick in the front and a silver laced wyandotte next to it. there's another americauna chick in the back.

This side is how we access the coop to feed and water our chicks. We also clean it out from here. Having a raised coop also gives our chickens a shady place during the heat of the day, a place to take their dustbath, and a quick place to run for overhead predators (hawks). They can also run back into the coop.

Mariposagal
Jun 21, 2012

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