coop and run

Hi! I need your expertise! I still haven’t settled on a coop plan, but this is pretty much the place in our property that meets setback requirements and is totally fenced in. I read in the Free Range Chicken Gardens book (by Jessi Bloom) that she likes building on patio pavers. Well, we already...

hello everyone! Thought I would show off my new baby chicks. This is my first adventure into chicken ownership and just in love with my little babies. I’ve got 2, 10 day old salmon faverolles, 1, 1 day old blue australorp, 1, 1 day old blue splash australorp, and 2 mottled Ameraucana. The...

What size of Coop should I have for 10-12 chickens (orpingtons, rhode islands, barred Rocks)? My run will be large (10x10) but they will not free range. Is 4x4 too small?

Hello all! First post on here, though I've been reading around and collecting some information! My fiance and I are looking into getting some chickens over the coming weeks but this is all very new to us! He's thinking he wants 10, but I'm thinking 4-5 is a much more realistic number for us...

I've had my first baby chicks for a couple of weeks now (3 black Australorps) and they are doing great. They are still indoors obviously so now we are really trying to perfect their *forever home*. My husband built a great little coop and we are now working on the run and I have two questions...

Well, it’s really happening:) We have started the coop. Who knew painting would take so long? The ground was much more sloped than we thought it was so we had to bring in soil to get it started and make the area. more level. We decided at that point to use cinder blocks as well to help...

Howdy folks! I have a but of a unique (or maybe not) problem... I need the sectional couch of chicken coops- and i have no idea how to do it! For some context, i live in central Indiana so its godda be wind proof! its godda be cold proof! its godda be... portable? yeah it does. my main deal is...

Hi folks, I’m new here! I am currently exploring options of expanding my coop so I can add more to my flock. I’m thinking it would be easier to build a separate area attached to my run that only houses laying boxes. This way I would have more room in my main coop if I removed the laying boxes...

hi all, I’m new here. My name is Meyer, my husband and I live with our two children in northern Italy. We have had chickens for about 7 years, in a very low maintenance sort of way. The chickens have two sheds open to them and a large garden area where they run. We leave their shed doors...

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I just wanted to share with everyone my current setup. I have 13 hens and 1 beautiful roo. I am in Central VA. I just completed a new coop (minus painting) that attaches to my old one for additional space for the girls. Most days they free range in the yard and are locked up at night...

Last year we had a cold snap below freezing. Our coop is too small for a light for heat. In addition, my husband considers them a fire hazard. For the past three and a half years that I have had chickens, I have added a layer for winter protection. Last year, I had the crazy idea of...

Well howdy do one and all! Here we are at the end of another week! I’m sitting here in Southern California enjoying one of our rare treats — RAIN! This is my absolute favorite weather! I love when the chill rolls in and opening our windows to hear the storm. But just as sudden as I heard that...

So this will be our first central PA winter with our chickens and ducks. They have a wooden coop with an attached run. During the summer the chickens always go up in the coop to roost at night and the ducks stay in the run. We’re thinking of putting plywood around the run for the winter. Will...

Hi there! I need some help. I have 3 chicks (well I guess they’re not chicks anymore...they were when we got them) that are almost 19 weeks old. We have 7 chickens that are a little over a year, and when we got the chicks we were hoping our broody buff Orpington would take to being their mama...

Help!! We currently have three chickens ( 25 wk Australorp, 18 week PBR and a 16 week WTB) and are having a horrible time keeping two of them off of the WTB. They both peck on her pretty badly. When we were introducing them all, they ganged up on her and pecked her tail until she was raw and...

I have an old well house on my property that is just used for storage, it is 12 X 8, it is on a concrete foundation, just needs some repair work on the inside. I thought about making this into a coop and just taking the door off so the chickens could go in and out, then build a large run...

(I didn't know what to title this) In my run I use a netting over top on 6ft fence to keep my chickens from getting out. Here recently I noticed in a few places some small spiders making webs. They weren't bugging me and they are up out of the way. I figured let bygones be bygones until today...