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Ok...got my new coop figured out...We are going to build a wooden lean to type coop attached to the existing coop...I will make it as large as we can...but none of the dimensions can reach 12 ft...it can be 11ft tall and 11ft long, and 11 ft wide, but as soon as one part of it is 12ft you have...

I would love to put up a poop board in all the coops, I need to block off the rafters in the main coop first though...but the new coop will definitely have a poop and roost board with a nice ladder step down. We are just going to build an 8x8 lean to type coop with no run, with 2 brood boxes...

Well I don't want to move the coop once we build it...and I fear that metal will be too cold in winter and too warm in summer...I am also trying to be the most cost effective possible...I already have tin for roofing and a little bit of the lumber I would need to build a wood one. I want to make...

That is a really good idea. I was thinking of buying a 10x12 metal shed to use as a coop...but now I am torn because I think I can just build one cheaper than I can buy a metal one...but I also know that I am not sure I personally want to build something so large as I don't like using power...

They don't seem to have an issue...sometimes one chicken wants to come in while one wants to go out, and someone gets shuffled off, but then they just flap their way back up the bank, or they'll walk back around and then back up. No injuries have been sustained from our tightrope chicken ramp...

Well I always know that there are things that want to eat my chickens, but we have been very fortunate, and hopefully it will continue. We also have a series of roosters that all have different functions, so we get warning if anything is up...I'm hoping that I can scare off anything that tries...

I wanted chickens so they could peck all over the yard...so having a run is not conducive to that ideal.

Anytime you have a good number of chickens in a space the ground will be naked..and you never see large tractors. I have only seen them for like 5 and 6 birds. With a permanent run, I think, you just start putting in bedding and what not. I don't think a large run would be practical to move, so...

We are enclosed in trees, so no attacks from up high, we only have one field where something flying could get to the chickens, but the chickens don't go there...and I know there are other things that take chickens, but the dogs seem to keep all those away...It really all works out. It's pretty...

We got our large dog after getting the chickens...so that makes things a good bit easier, and all the neighbors have chickens and dogs...so all the predators in the area are chicken friendly.

Well here is my pictures, and guess what?! I got 2 eggs today! Not just one...given one of them is very very small...So either a new egg from a hen I've been waiting and waiting for her to lay, or it is from the bantam mama hen..Either way! 2 eggs! Hooray! I could literally do my own egg dance...

My chickens are just not that brave so far. Perhaps my dominant roo will continue to be the dominant roo and can keep everyone from wandering. If they start then I guess we'll have to start putting a few fences...Lol.

I can't move the coop, it is a permanent building...nor am I worried about the chickens getting in the road, but thank you. There are no ambulance chasers here...I live in the country...if a chicken gets rundown, then yes that is sad, but not the end of the world..and if a chicken causes an...

The coop is sort of strange...it is the top half of a large 2 story building... and I think that is disconcerting for some of the chickens.

Well my young birds don't really like to leave the coop at all...I can entice them out with food tossed right by the coop door, but as soon as they eat it they run back in the coop...Their mom has just started perusing the yard with the other older chickens. Our rooster is old...I don't know how...

I know how many poops 12 chickens make...I can only imagine how many poops that 90 chickens would make...I'm going to need a lot more hay. that is for sure. All the chickens roost in the rafters, so in the mornings there is literally a rectangle of poop that spans right through the middle of the...

Well their food and nest boxes take up perhaps 3-4 feet total so...I guess I can fit a pretty good number up there...I know that it looks bare up there with just 12.

Almost all of our 4 acres is more like forest scrub...so they can't denude it...they can't scratch through where they first come out of the coop to...the dog has dug them a few holes here and there that they scratch in, but the whole back side where they seem to want to stay is forest floor all...

There is no run, and no fencing at all...A road and woods separate our property from anyone else's...Here is my deal...The chickens treat the road like a fence...they go up and pick through the ditches, but always stay 3 or 4 feet away. They don't leave our property, or even come close...we have...