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Does the height of the coop matter? Suppose I build a coop for 30 hens x 4' = 120 sq ft. and I make it one foot tall? My hens only stay on the floor long enough to jump onto the roosting bars and the higher the bars go the better they like it. Staggering the bars makes it easy for them to...

We are using half of a 12x8 shed for 30 hens. We also have a large run with a tarp covered 8x16 canopy attached to the shed. The hens spend the day outside (under the canopy when there is snow on the ground) and only go in to lay their eggs and to go to bed. They seem to be fine with the...

I built our first set of boxes out of scrap plywood. We recently added more hens and I started looking around for ideas to add more boxes, since I'm too lazy to build more. While browsing around Costco I discovered a set of shoe bins made of vinyl panels with heavy wire frames. They had two...