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Haha, I can picture it already. I’ll help them get their steps in every day with kitchen scrap delivery on the far end. :) Yes, good point. The spot from which I took that picture is pretty wide open and where I might situate the coop - will post when I am back on my computer.

Thank you. How is 4’ ? I rounded down to 3’ when measuring, but with some pruning of the bottom branches of the hedges it would be closer to 4’. And yes, they are. Well, I suppose the concrete wall is in fact the property line.

Thank you all. I'm back to the drawing board with this great input. In fact, I might change my plan entirely as I've scouted a new corner of the yard that might work a bit better for them (well, at least me, I think) 😆 The new spot is in a shady corner of a big pine tree and adjacent to a...

Awesome article - great build and a great read, but unless I'm misunderstanding I do believe hers still uses the large cattle/hog panel fencing as an initial base. However, after poking around the articles a bit more I see more hoop coop designs that don't utilize cattle panels. I'll do some...

@Ridgerunner - Thank you for your welcome and detailed response. Yes, your initial description of the 'coop/house' combo more or less sums up what I had in mind. I think you're right about the overall coop space being too small. I will probably extend it 2' - 4' so that I can get in and out to...

@0die - Yes!! This is basically what I had pictured for mine, the "house" and "coop" with free movement of each other. Except mine would open into yet another bigger, fully-but-less-securely enclosed big day run. Can you clarify how big the "house" aspect of yours is? If I'm looking at the pic...

@Ted Brown Thanks Ted. I get now that the dresser idea etc would be too small to plan for possibly 8 hens. I am certainly thinking about pallets for at least part of the run (maybe using them for the lower half of the run's back wall, for ex.). I've just made a folder of bookmarks just for...

Logging on this morning and blown away by the awesome response. Thank you all so much for the wonderful detailed info. This has already helped lots. Work awaits but I will try to respond in detail when I am settled in. Thank you 😄 Also, I have updated my location as advised, thanks @Ted Brown...

Hi everyone, nice to meet you all. I'm Michelle and I just joined BYC today. Over the holidays I had the chance to take care of my sister's family's flock of 3 young Golden Comets, which in short was total fun! It got me launched into many hours of research this week on having a flock of our...