Help! Need to refurbish inherited coop!

[Logan160]

That should do very well.

Another thing you can do for them is add "clutter." That is anything they can use to break up their lines of sight. Things they can go behind or hop up on. Like a couple of straw bales stacked on each other or stumps or lawn chairs tipped over or a pile or teepee of branches. It doesn't have to be solid. Clutter can be critical when space is really tight but it is nice for them even space isn't tight at all.

I plan to add some logs! The previous owners have a firepit on the property with quite a few large logs I wanted to add! Additionally I love the look of large branges secured to the run for roosting and basically a jungle gym!

I mainly am getting chickens as pets rather than soley for the purpose of egg production, so they are going to have lots of fun activities, plus when we are home we have a large wooded area they can forrage in!

If you cant tell we are so excited for the chicks to arrive, but I am really trying to spend the next 3 months getting it PERFECT for them! My mom has 5 chickens with a coop and run thats the same size so clearly my family likes giving them a lot of space!

 

[ABQ chicken keeper]

I plan to add some logs! The previous owners have a firepit on the property with quite a few large logs I wanted to add! Additionally I love the look of large branges secured to the run for roosting and basically a jungle gym!

I mainly am getting chickens as pets rather than soley for the purpose of egg production, so they are going to have lots of fun activities, plus when we are home we have a large wooded area they can forrage in!

If you cant tell we are so excited for the chicks to arrive, but I am really trying to spend the next 3 months getting it PERFECT for them! My mom has 5 chickens with a coop and run thats the same size so clearly my family likes giving them a lot of space!

Besides hawks what other predators do you have in the neighborhood?

 

[Logan160]

Besides hawks what other predators do you have in the neighborhood?

The previous owner said she has seen raccoons but in 2 years she has had zero issues with predators! The yard is also fully fenced in for our dog, so its kinda double fenced lol. She buried the hardware cloth underneith around it (and the galvanized metal goes in the ground) and around it has large rocks! The new run that is getting built will also have hardware cloth buried the whole way around.

The girls will never free range when I am not home! The only predator that has hurt her chickens were the hawks, they free ranged though.