I have game cameras outside the coop, but I like this idea of having a camera in the run. I think I'm going to do that as well. I have some mini cameras that I'm going to put in the coop above the nesting boxes to see whose laying which eggs, but another one in the run would be great!!
We are super new to chicken ownership. We've had our five girls now for only eight days, so we haven't figured out how often we need to do it. We are using the deep bedding method and from what I can gather, we should only need to do a deep clean about twice a year.