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Does anyone find that if the roost is too high that Large fowl wont roost there. My Delawares have always just piled into the nestbox from the very beginning. Of course their brooder and the first coop never had proper roosts.

Thats kind of how I built my run. It can be disassembled pretty easily if I had to move it. Framed 6' long wall sections with framing 2"x4" My sections are 6'7" high. We built one with 4"x4" verticals on the outsides for the one with the Door. I have 2 coops attached to this central run. 1 is a...

Yep me too. Would really like to employ some permaculture farm principles and make a fully sustainable place to live.

Im actually thinking of planting a couple of bushes in the Run itself Just not sure which kind.

I will more than likely do that. I have a tarp over half of it now.

How do those of you who have coops in hot places deal with 100+ temps. We get quite a few 100+ temps during the summer. Im thinking if I put a bucket air conditioner in the coop it might help I do not have a lot of natural shade in my back yard I have a tarp over part of the run and the coop...

Probably a good analogy. If you stop seeing them then you most likely have a pedrator that has moved in near by.

I used contiguous earlier when I was comparing finland I think.

you figure if a chicken is going to poop all over it then ...

Well LA area is the worst but here I commute 50 miles(80km) each way and spend between 3 and 4 hours on the road each day. I take a lot of surface roads and avoid most of the major Freeway jams and I leave very early before traffic gets too heavy. There are a lot of people I know who do similar...

Well I'm pretty sure Finland is entirely north of the contiguous US putting even the most southern part on parallel with somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness. Being from the SF Bay Area in CA. I can certainly say that rain here happens (at least once in a while in normal years) We and our...

I have delawares and so far they have been good and their reputation is pretty good for egg production. I am working through the integration of 2 buff orps with them. All mine are pullets and not at POL yet. THe buffs are about a month younger than the Dels and getting picked on a bit. Nothing...

oh to have that kind of space.

My thought was just the added heat removal and augment the other ventilation not as my only source. Ill look into what to do about night time.

I plan to add something like this to my coops roof http://www.wholesalemarine.com/marine-mooring-vent-sol-air-solar-powered-vent-fan.html?gclid=CjkKEQjwwbCcBRCxvJn9-N6dorwBEiQAVriOinPV4DiNXY3kruVqIUBqxpSXduFi0rB7dBu1twbjj5Hw_wcB Also for the additional lighting through winter I am going to add...

Actually just sand paper sheets stapled to the board im working on a more permanent solution.

Almost done but here is mine Dual coop/run setup after having to expand from the small store bought coop to building one of my own Some coop construction pics Here you can see the little coop I had to start with. Wont really fit 4 Large foul (4 Delawares) and I also got 2 Buff Orps...