Am I the only one?

[kuntrygirl]

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Do you have any pics?

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Pics?

 

[sourland]

Great set-up, and as they have proven "build the nests and they shall come."

 

[A.T. Hagan]

This picture is a few years old, but the set up hasn't changed much. The big structure to the right is the roost house, can hold maybe about fifty or so birds. The triangular structure is a feeder shelter. The nest house is against the fence on the left facing the roost house. The structure outside the fence houses the fence charger and battery and has room for feed cans. The beat up looking white structure facing the camera is actually outside the fence and is not there there any longer (it's the rooster pen roost house now).

I didn't exactly design this set up to be like this. The roost house was my second attempt at building a portable chicken house. I don't know what I was thinking when I made it so big. Never worked well. But it was built and I didn't want to take it apart so I pulled it over to where I wanted a fixed hen yard and built everything around it.

Way back when in the snow free parts of the country like Petaluma, California it was not uncommon to have roost houses and nest houses apart from one another.

 

[kuntrygirl]

A.T. Hagan :

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_SxFfd4HLezA/T...all in Dun Hagan chicken yard - June 2007.jpg

This picture is a few years old, but the set up hasn't changed much. The big structure to the right is the roost house, can hold maybe about fifty or so birds. The triangular structure is a feeder shelter. The nest house is against the fence on the left facing the roost house. The structure outside the fence houses the fence charger and battery and has room for feed cans. The beat up looking white structure facing the camera is actually outside the fence and is not there there any longer (it's the rooster pen roost house now).

I didn't exactly design this set up to be like this. The roost house was my second attempt at building a portable chicken house. I don't know what I was thinking when I made it so big. Never worked well. But it was built and I didn't want to take it apart so I pulled it over to where I wanted a fixed hen yard and built everything around it.

Way back when in the snow free parts of the country like Petaluma, California it was not uncommon to have roost houses and nest houses apart from one another.

Oh, I love your set. Very spacious and roomy. What type of bedding do you have down? Looks nice.​

 

[tinychicky]

the only reason i have the the nest boxes in the same corner as the roost is because the silkies need an extra step to get up and down, seeing as they can't exactly fly up there themselves.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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That's a good idea.

 

[gordonburrito]

That set up is pretty spiff. I need more land

 

[kuntrygirl]

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The only downfall with more is land is MORE CHICKENS AND MORE CHICKEN HOUSES!!!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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That was an experiment in using shredded paper for litter. INSIDE the roost house where it stays mostly dry it worked pretty well. Outside where it is often wet in the summer between the heat and the nitrogen from the manure you could just about see it decompose. Outdoors I use hay, straw, leaves, pine straw, whatever I have.