I have (had) 11 chicks, 5 plymouth rock, 4 americauna, 2 polish. 3 americauna's were a week older and much larger. Last week I found one polish chick dead and thought the goat had stomped him when he busted the pen open, but then just now I found the other one in a very similar condition...
When I started looking into building a coop, I went on Freecycle and found someone with a used coop, broken down into boards and wire and green corrugated fiberglass panels. Along with scraps from remodeling our kitchen and tearing our a wall of cedar tongue and groove panelling, old futon...