space for chickens

Hi, I'm custom building a run that provides the roughly 10 sq ft chicken (they will not free range, too risky here). The run is walk-in, and 6 feet high. Are there examples of how to add additional "space available" by utilizing this vertical space, similar to how a second story adds square...

Hey everyone, I now have 23 chickens ( 7 bantams & 16 standard size) in a 10 x 40 run. That is 400 square feet so it’s a little over 17 square feet per chicken. I have two raised off the ground 4x8 coops and they only stay in the coops at night. The nesting boxes are attached on the outside of...

So here I am with six growing like weeds Blue Maran Chicks and my chicken coop from Tractor Supply arrived. The driver was nice enough to put it in my back yard for me. I'm rather disabled so this was a wonderful thing. On this past Wednesday I started putting it together and then the fight...