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These are various photos, not in any particular order, of some of the different configurations. The first and unsuccesful poop board - the material in those boards was pretty bad...
The second poop board worked much better thanks to @aart, but shoulder surgery made things difficult...
The window was great for the broody hen and her chicks.
I moved the ladder roost that was originally inside the coop, so that it leaned against the front, underneath the plastic awning... they like to sit there and gossip with the chickens that have gone into the coop already!
The little coop is inside the first run with a temporary run attached for chicks. The nest box was there when I had to quarantine my Bielefelder hen who had a prolapsed vent. I had wire around that too.
I repurposed the back of an old garden chair as a ladder for chicks.
I built the nestboxes a couple of months after my shoulder surgery, and my DH helped me to mount it. He wanted to help me build it, but I had a tantrum because I was tired of feeling like I couldn't do anything!!!
Until last week, my flock consisted of 17 laying hens, 4 roosters, an lots of teenage and younger chickens... Then I got the notice from the township that I was in violation of the zoning ordinance... I sold all my French Black Copper Marans hens and roo, and some of my Easter Eggers and mixes that had started to lay last month. Still have eggs in the Dickeys incubator waiting to hatch, and pullets waiting to be sold. I am going to try for a variance, and maybe I'll even get to keep my Bielefelder roo - my immediate neighbors are not happy that the roosters are going! Neither am I.
The window was great for the broody hen and her chicks.