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Quote: My plan is to use a spike to make a hole and then take a metal clotheshanger, wrap it through the hole like the cabbage was a giant bead and suspend that under one of the windows on a hook. I'm not sure how it's going to work, but that seems least likely to involve things that might...

Quote: Yeah, I'm not worried about messy/muddy, either -- I do like the idea of the bale of hay under the flat roof against the house, especially since it's sheltered already. And I got straw for inside the coop. Dad had told me about the hanging cabbage. He said that it would help keep...

Quote: Thanks for the help! I know that I'm probably worrying more than I need to, because I worried when I moved them outside from the inside where they were as chicks and I worried when I started to let them free-range. But I'm probably still going to worry, too. I did giggle at the...

Quote: Jim, let me tell you what we started doing last winter in our run...we got a large round bale of hay..not straw...and unrolled it in the chicken run. Now it keeps them up off the muddy/cold ground and gives them seeds to scratch for all winter long. In the spring you have some pretty...

I'm starting to get stressed about winter and the girls. The have a 6x6X6 coop, with five nesting boxes and two perches -- 2X4s. No insulation. There's ventilation in the roof and there's spaces where ceiling and walls meet. The roof comes down lower than those spaces, so I'm hoping that'll...