Chicken Run

[TillinWithMyPeeps]

Hey,

I am preparing my coop and run for the chickens. Currently the height of the top of the run is only 2-3 ft. high. Would this be alright to keep chickens in? It is still long and wide enough, and gives them enough area, just not very high. Also, I plan to allow them a couple of hours a day of structured, supervised, free-run time, outside of the coop and run. What do you think?

Thanks!

 

[Mahonri]

My girls like a little room to jump. My run is about 5 ft high and I have a perch for them in one of the corners that they like to jump up on to survey the back yard.

 

[SewingDiva]

Our run is tall enough to stand in - but that's for my benefit when I clean it out!

~Phyllis

 

[cmom]

My run is 4 ft high. Here are some old pictures. I move my coop and run, so I really don't go into it as I clean up the run area and their poop pit that's under the roosts when I move the coop and run.

 

[Omran]

If you can build it a little high like 6' then do so,then you can go in the pen and clean it if you have too.
Good Luck.

 

[Reinbeau]

Mine is 6' high so I can walk around in there and clean up without stooping. Hubby is off the hook on that job, he's 6'4"

 

[quercus21]

Ours is close to 6' tall. This way we can get in there to change the water/feed and do general cleanup when need be.

 

[ChanceRider]

Our run is only about 5 feet tall, and I'm around 5' 8"... so to make it easier for me to access the run, we built portions of the top in sections that are on hinges for opening. I can raise the front of the top and prop it open while I clean, and can easily reach all areas of the run.

 

[my first peepers]

My run is only about 4 feet tall and it is sometimes frustrating not to be able to get in there so if you can I would make it taller. I can rake it out from the end that opens but that's about it. I'm already trying to figure out how to expand it...

 

[HaleMoa]

our run started off at 4 ft high and we talked ourselves into raising it up to 6 ft high for 2/3rds of it (leaving the last 3rd as a "quiet chicken spot" for the hens to have a place of their own) and we both agree, we're SO happy we decided to raise it up. if you can, i suggest making it higher, if not for the chickens than at least for your own poop raking sanity.