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Thank you for showing your setup! I could make some pellet+block shelters too. I'm trying to get them to hang out in the open, future chickens garden area away from my main living space and it's going to be hard as they must feel much safer around humans and big buildings. So I want to build...

I have 10 of them too! I'm thinking of making something with pellets later which will be both a compost bin and chicken shelter but it'll be also good to have small shelters for them, too. What are yours made of?

I agree that humans tend to project how they feel onto animals and it's true that it's more me feeling miserable when they're walking around looking wet in the cold than them. Still, I want to make something they'd like to use. If they don't, I'll just have to change things around. I was going...

Your shelters are much smaller than what I thought for chicken shelters. Chickens would probably feel cozier with low ceiling! I'll think about making something like that for my chickens too!

Thank you. I'll try that. I think the openness is the key. Today, I saw a couple of chickens going into the half-made and front-open structure and preening themselves contently. They seem to do preening only where they feel safe. (So wherever my husband or I stop walking and stand for a bit on...

Thank you for your input. I have some hay I cut in the summer so I might put it in there. The structure is in the open even though there are lots of trees a bit far away. It doesn't get that cold here. It's been close to freezing during the day for a couple of weeks but that's an rare occasion...

Then the 1 foot door is out. I can open up the whole long side (6 feet), or open a half of the long side (3 feet) and the end side which is also 3 feet. But then it would be less cozy inside as the wind would blow through it. Maybe I'll make two 3 foot doors on the front and see whether they...

I'm building a 4 feet wide, 6 feet long and 2.5 feet high structure in a new garden area for my chickens that free range all day. It'll be covered with hardware cloth and plastic and I'm going to leave the front side open during the day so they can go in there to eat, drink water, hide or hang...