I have some hardware cloth and some chicken wire. I live in a neighborhood so the predators are scarce and I do have motion sensor lights and a privacy fence out back. to this point I have never seen anything that would bother them. I do want to adventually make the whole thing hardware cloth. I...
here are some pictures. there is ventilation at the top on both sides of the roof in the front and back. you can't see it in the picture but it is there. and I have that window that you can see.
i ahve my nesting boxes on the outside of the coop already, also are winters arnt bad. to this point their water has frozen once. it may drop into the 20's some nights but its not usualy below freezing for more than a couple days at time and it may only drop into the teens a couple times each...
I have roughly 45-48 square feet of floor space in my coop and about 90- 100 square feet of run space right now. i plan on adding about another 80 square feet of run space this coming spring. right now i have 5 hens but was thinking about getting 3 or 4 more hens to add with them. so after i add...