Hi, I've had chickens since 2014, but as a kid, growing up in South Africa, I had a few years on the farm, raising egg layers and edible hens.
We have a small flock in Seattle and they get to free-range, yes they cross the road, they are chickens after all. We blessed to have neighbors who love...
I designed a coop and habitat area for my hens (4 years in use, 7 hens at the moment)
it has an enclosed roost area for extreme cold and an open air sides with roof- roost area(chickens choose to use this roost +90% of the time)
I have a plastic (roofing) slope under the roosting sticks with a...