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Oh goodness, no! That would be cruelty--this interior coop is just their roosting and laying room, which opens into a 4'x18' covered run. The door between indoor coop and outdoor covered run is never closed. They only spend a little bit of time in either coop. They free range 12-13 hours a day...

Oh goodness, no! That would be cruelty--this interior coop is just their roosting and laying room, which opens into a 4'x18' covered run. The door between indoor coop and outdoor covered run is never closed. They only spend a little bit of time in either coop. They free range 12-13 hours a day...

Here's a belated picture of the gang ready for lights out, with the two Bielefelders on the portable roosts in front of the nest boxes. In the morning I removed the little roosts, brush the poops to the floor and now the platform is for nest box access!

I got a few more chickens than I have roost space, so some of them have been sleeping on the shelf in front of the nest box. Their droppings get smashed into them and the shelf, so I built two portable mini-roosts out of scrap 2x4's that I place on the shelf after I close the nest box for the...