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Here's my biggest chick looking into the coop.

Kinda like this. Now keep in mind i bought these chicks for me and my daughter and my wife was avidly against them...today i came home to her and the baby sitting in the chair together watching the chicks play.

I keep reminding my wife there are much worse things that a 28 year old male could be doing besides sitting in the back yard with his chickens.

Lord please don't remind my wife. It started out as all free materials. Then it turned into a couple 2x4's and some 5/4 board. Then it became some contractors sand and paint and now here i am adding feed and waterer systems to the run.

Here's the latest shots.

So i forgot to take a before picture but this used to be a super ugly wooden table with a tile top. Now it's a food storage bin so i don't have to walk back and forth to the house.

You're welcome.

It's mainly the chicks more so than the adult hens. We sold chicks this spring and people would buy cedar chips without asking first and would come back later in the week wanting to know why all of their birds had died so i know for a fact it can kill the chicks.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/99738/who-says-cedar-is-bad-for-chickens

"DON'T use cedar shavings, no matter what friends or your local feed store tell you: the aromatic oils will irritate your chicks' lungs, and make them more susceptible to respiratory problems later in life.)" From My Pet Chicken

Those aren't cedar chips are they?

Baby girl has plenty of time to enjoy her new chick chicks.

Nothing over top as of now. Still brainstorming. How did you know i was putting a cinder block bench in there today for them to roost on...?

It's covered on 3 sides with hardware cloth. The bottom is miscellaneous pieces of white wood, cedar, pt 1x4's, 1x6's and 1x8's.

Mine isn't quite on the level with most of these but it works. Was intended to house 6-8 bantams then i found out i could only have 4 birds total on my property and somehow i have ended up with 10 full size birds so oh well close enough. These first two pictures are from the chicks first night...