Here's my setup these days, looking north and then south. This area gets some morning sun where the shades are and after that it is all nice and shady. It was good for the hot weather.
I bought a greenhouse frame and have put it into the setup. It is moveable like the coop tractor because it's light. The big square run can move but with a lot of effort. So that (far end in first picture, what they are in, in the second) stays put mostly, and the coop tractor and greenhouse frame move around it. I put the cut piece of aviary netting over it and attached it to the coop tractor and the big run doorway side, pulling it tight on all sides and top and fastening with carabineers to the runs and to the frame. I have the electric poultry fencing on around the whole area. They can go in the setup when I open the coop tractor doors during the daytime.
I do let them out of this setup when I'm out there with them. The coop is close to the electronet on one side now but they have figured out to avoid it and when they are out with me they want to be in the west side area anyway - to the left in the first picture - under the trees. They actually get pretty close investigating an old compost pile there but we've had no hits. You can see the ground to the left of the coop tractor is scratched up, plus that's where the tractor was a few days ago. It's nice loose woodland soil all through there and they love it.
My concern now is whether weasels / mink will get through hot poultry netting. I could put hardware cloth on the lower panels of the greenhouse frame on the sides. I want to put it on the rest of the lower part of the big run. It's done on the coop tractor except for the front doors. But unless it's all over, top and bottom, a mink would just climb up and through anyway, wouldn't it?
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They dustbathe both in the doggy pool dry dirt and ash, and the actual ground in the big run, sometimes both areas are going at the same time.
