So I started with two hens that adopted me and purchased four banties last summer. My husband threw together a makeshift coop. kind of looks like an old fashioned outhouse with dutch doors and screens. I bought three more hens at auction to even the hen rooster ratio a little more and so bought a $300 coop that none of my chickens like. It's small and has no amenities.Its a hut with a roosting pole. So last week my two guinea hens that free range between my house and the neighbors started hatching eggs. She hatched out 11 of 17. I grabbed them up and put them in the house under a brooder as the success rate for guineas that free range is not good here. Well I didn't think this through very well as now i am running out of room. I will soon have 11 turkey sized birds and I am not good at carpentry. Not real rich either. I looked online and notoiced that garden sheds seem to go for much cheaper than coops. Has anyone ever had any luck converting one to a chicken coop? I have to do something and do it soon as my cute little peepers are going to get to big for their brooding tub pretty soon. Any suggestions, short of eating them would be greatly appreciated and considered.
