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A mini roost outside the door would give them a wing up, and keep some vermin and varmints out.

coat what you are moving around with manure. 2 foot min

Downside: If your birds are clumsy or overweight, flying down from the top roost might be hazardous. Mine come down from the 6' roost to a 3' wide landing area, some curve their flight out of the door. Watch it in the morning right?

Higher density of birds, and as 70% of manure is under the roosts, this keeps more of your floor space with a lower poop density. (o geez, that's good eh?) I think the jousting for top perch is ok. Mine is pretty long so all the birds manage to get comfortably on the top half of the roosts...

Hear tell 45 degrees works. Worked for me, and it's easy to measure and cut and install by eye. You need 12" horizontally between roosts that way, so I think I put each roost 18" apart linearly along the 45 degree supports. Staple poultry netting well, but loose, so the birds who land on it...

Simarly here, smaller scale and roosts at 45 degrees to 6 or 6 and a half feet up the wall. Saplings not 2x4s. I am using 2x4s. Poultry netting under the hinged roosts. 300 birds.

Giant coop without corners if you can. That is where they will lay the eggs on the ground. We have a small black hen, of which breed I don't know, but she camps out in the most remote corner head down into it. Peeps pitifuly if you pick her up. Consistent though so....

I am considering what would happen if the square footage per bird was 10 ft2 with plenty of run as well? Would integration of various birds go better? The barn has three rows of stalls and a hayloft. One is the coop now. I am thinking feed/straw/wood chips storage, and a heated room in which...

Chicken Math is never wrong. Rabbit math is, but not chicken math.... oh yeah, you are spot on!

I went for 30 chickens a month three months in a row. It was a lot of work but they are now one flock and cared for as one. BUT, more than 30 chicks would be a real chore unless you had a big brooder. Mine is 12 sq. ft. and barely big enough for the 2.5 weeks. Barely was my opinion, the...

"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by the Hollies. 70s.

Think the "Hollies": She was a fluffy short hen in a blue coop.... Just a claw footed hen in the pe-en... I could see that coop was a bad mess... Cuz that coool hen pooped it ah-aallll...

That is almost what I imagined. My coop is in an old barn, my chick-spouse said there is a lot of wasted room in there, but it is all set up so they can't get to the manure, and can't roost over something that isn't litter. Clean once a year. I break open a bag of pine shavings every month...

I saw that 4 ft fence only encouraged the chickens to stay in, I have a 6 foot welded wire fence with birds in it now (Jan 15ish) that were hatched at the end of June, July, and August. None have flown over yet, or will I think. This summer some of the young might... EDIT: If you put one up...

A roof under the roost?

Boo. You will regret that sorry