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Champaign now allows up to 6 hens. You do have to register and apply for a coop license. There are also minimum requirements in terms of space in the coop and run.

It depends on your suburban area, many have large raccoon populations that the residents may not even be aware of. We live in the middle of town with solid privacy fencing around our backyard and we have all sorts of wildlife visit us. Except for the cost of the hardware cloth, it really doesn't...

Personally I would secure the bottom with some hardware cloth. It wouldn't take much for a determined predator to dig into the run. I'm setting my coop on a base of cinder blocks and pavers, but also used a skirt of hardware cloth secured to the bottom. It runs around 12" around the outside of...

Love the colors! You did a really nice job :) What are you using to attach the hardware cloth to the beams? Would you mind sharing what the inside of the coop looks like? Sorry for all the questions!

Sounds like a good plan! We're in a similar situation but I know we have opossums and raccoons around. Do you have any finished pictures? I'm sure the new residents love it!

This looks really similar to the coop that I started on last weekend! I'm going with the cinderblock base as well. Are you going to add anything else to protect against digging predators? I keep debating about adding a flat hardware cloth perimeter as well as the blocks.

That looks great! That is a good point about cleaning the coop itself, maybe I'll add another foot of height if I can find the boards for it

I'm starting to prep a site for our new coop. I've been looking at a ton of designs and I've noticed that a lot of the coops out there seem pretty tall. Other than potentially adding taller roosts, is there a reason for it? I was planning to make the coop itself about 5'x5'x 3' tall and set off...