Thank you everyone for the warm welcome!!!
The sun is out (at least I think it's the sun - haven't seen it in weeks) and it's time to get out and do ranch storm clean up - hopping up on the tractor to work on the ranch road.
Stacked part ….
oops duh - my brain is mush with the weather! Meant to post the dimensions with the first pic. Sorry about that.
Dimensions are:
10’8” x 4’6” by 6’4” high about 2’ on the stacks
I want to go a few feet wider and longer in the “remodel” with built in laying boxes and outside...
I don’t have any electric fencing at the moment. The choocks are in the house yard in a chicken run. I just got the Premiere fencing catalog in the mail last week 😊. Here on the ranch we have coyotes, several types of hawks, bobcats and reported but yet to be seen mountain lions. They work out...
Here you go - everything is a huge mess right now thanks to all the rain over the last month - rain and hail even today
The “stacked” part is at the back.
Sounds very much like what I have at the moment. Though the dimensions here are larger (except maybe for the height). While others have said vertical does not figure in square footage I can't say one way or the other.
Our roost area has a "floor" and a 2x4 perch and is located above the nest...
Hi :frow
A quick intro for me - I'll answer the questions.....
I've had chickens for over 20 years, first got them (3 Barred Rocks) for eggs - once they'd established themselves free range on our acre I found we had no slugs, snails or earwigs - what a great bonus. Had them for 5 years before...