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That is a good alternative :) It would be really neat though to make the tree work inside the run as the chickens would be able to feast on fallen mulberries! I always see mulberry trees recommended for chicken food forests, it's such a cool idea to me. I never thought building a chicken run...

Ooh thank you for that, that's a very helpful read. Thankfully I am situated more coastal than inland and summers only get to around 30C instead of 40C (for now hmm). An open air coop also wouldn't require having to get up early to let them out or spending hundreds on an auto door, I love that...

Half of the run is actually shaded by a large tree which I was actually a bit bummed out about because I would have loved trying to grow a watermelon vine over the fencing haha Hm yeah I was thinking putting some wiring around the base of the tree and see what happens

Thanks Shadrach! I've decided to go for three standard sized chickens, I've been perusing for a while for breeders and have found a couple breeders that are quite transparent and are starting to hatch out chicks now (so excited!!) which I plan on raising indoors as I finish off the run while...

Ok, that makes sense. Yes I'm planning on a clear acrylic sheet as the roof and will try to have a dwarf mulberry tree in the run with a lot of pruning!

That would be 7 square metres, it's actually 3.6m x 2m. I didn't think the coop size would matter as I assume they would want to spend their days foraging in the run and only sleep/lay in the coop. I originally was planning on a coop size of 1m x 1m excluding nesting boxes but I could make it...

Hmm that's a good point, hadn't considered increasing square footage with vertical space etc. Thanks

Thanks for the suggestion! A chicken tunnel would be a great future project. I value the non-broodiness and large eggs of regular sized laying hens, do you think an Australorp could get along with two bantams buddies if raised together from chicks? I understand that Australorps are generally...

Hi there, I am building a permanent deep litter run, about 7m2 in area, excluding the coop. Unfortunately this is the biggest I can make it due to difficult terrain and huge boulders. I was wondering if two chickens would be happier, with more space, or if three chickens would be happier...