Finished our ADDITION!!

[cherylcohen]

After reading all the posts about coop size I wsa concerned that the sleeping quarters, hen house of 3' x 4' was not enough for our 10 chickens so we did an addition of 3' x 8' . So our total size of the coop is
hen house = 3' x 11'
covered run = 4' x 7'
Netted run = 16' x 7'

sure hope that enough!!

We just added a new Welsummer and Gold-laced wyandotte to our flock last night...so we have one of each!

Ameraucana
Wheaten Ameraucana
Buff orpington
Gold-lace Wyandotte
Blue Wyandotte
Columbian Wyandotte
Rhode island red
Cuckoo maran
Speckled Sussex
Welsummer

 

[kcardella]

It looks great! They should have plenty of room now!

 

[LynneP]

Looks like your girls are set, and what a bouquet of hens!

 

[Acre of Blessings]

Very Nice!!!

 

[cherylcohen]

Just added 50 sq feet of sod to the outdoor run!! They are LOVING it!! OMG

Pictures to come soon

 

[gsim]

Neat job and I like the hardware cloth to keep coons out. Chickens love to eat grass. You can keep it alive by putting down pr treated 2x2's with hardware cloth nailed to that to form a screen over the grass, about 1 1/2" off ground. That way they can eat it without destroying it. No other way you will ever get grass to stay in a run that small. You cannot walk on it yourself tho without some additional preparation/stepping stones, whatever.

I have a 2,000 sq ft pen for 24 full-sized pullets, and am not likely to be able to keep grass in it. It is first year, so will have to see if grass will hold up. Figures to be approximately 80 sq ft per bird for mine. I wish now that I had ordered fewer birds or made my pen even bigger. Currently, I have 1/3 of it fenced off for growing grass. I have a good start too, with it right at 2" now and growing fast with the indian summer and the rain. May have to fence a part off every fall and re-seed to keep some grass. Or, may have to do what I described above to have grass year-round. Chickens need fresh living greens daily to be really healthy and that is why I made my run/pen so big. I now think they need 150 sq ft per bird to have grass all of the time. So my pen is 1/2 of what it should be at 185 ft around.

 

[Sillystunt]

OMG, i hate you! LOL just playing~
LOOKS AWESOME! Really good, congrats