Love the coops! I did a similar thing with my shed. I ended up with 5 small (3x4) coops with 4x5 runs attached. And I also have a small space for storage. I plan on making a gigger one but this works for our silkies and the olive Eggers we have.I had a serious overcrowding issue in my large pen out back. It was fine up until they were about 10-12wks old. Over the last 2 months I have slowly sold most of the birds in there and/or built pens in my 12x24 shed for the others. I think my main tail eater is one of my MFCs in one of the breeding cages in the shed now. It looks like I have 3 pullets in the back pen with some promise. They are 5-7 months old now, so tails are really mandatory for selection at this point, lol! Oh yes, since I didn't share.... The new pens in the shed: I am building 2 more pens on the other side of the shed. Looks like I can get a 4x6 and a 4x5 over there.And with birds in them:
US SOP Bantam Orps. I have a 100% English black bantam Orp I hatched from TKay's eggs to put over these girls. He suffered a hock injury a while a go, though. The swelling is gone but he still favors it. I'm not so sure I'll be able to use him.
BC looking MFCs (Father was MFC x BC and mother is my black tailed buff looking girl). I need to sort the girls and cull the youngest cockerel. I never checked the girls to see if they all had their 3rd toe. The cockerel I know does not. Their dad threw 3rd toeless babies.
My Tom Roebuck black with my chocolate Orps. Finally, the project I started accumulating birds for last year is underway.
