NestingMillenial
Songster
Hi all, I'm hoping you can give me ideas on how to use a little pre-existing feature in my run/coop.
I have recently moved and I am updating what I believe was a large catio into a coop/run. The catio shares a wall with an adjacent small shed, so the previous owner cut a little window in that wall to have the two spaces communicate. That window is a rectangle that's 22" large and 24" tall and 2 ft high from the floor.
Originally, I planned on using the shed as the coop, the catio as the run and that little window as the door between both. However, I live in AZ: it gets pretty hot and that shed doesn't have great ventilation, so instead, I am currently planning on letting the chicken roost in a corner of the run that's more secluded but would still have way better ventilation than the shed.
I could just board up that window and be done with it, but I was thinking that there might be a better use for it.
Another idea I had was to have the nesting boxes embedded in it -> I could divide that space into 4 parts, and build a backing that would hang into the shed (I could get the eggs from there too, though not sure if that would actually be more convenient to be honest). If I do that the nesting boxes would end up 11" wide, 12" high and something like 12" deep (or more, it would be easy to make that up to 16" deep or so). Would that sound appropriate?
If not, is there any other use for a little niche/nook of those dimensions, be it for storage or to enrich the run in some way? If you can think of something let me know!
I have recently moved and I am updating what I believe was a large catio into a coop/run. The catio shares a wall with an adjacent small shed, so the previous owner cut a little window in that wall to have the two spaces communicate. That window is a rectangle that's 22" large and 24" tall and 2 ft high from the floor.
Originally, I planned on using the shed as the coop, the catio as the run and that little window as the door between both. However, I live in AZ: it gets pretty hot and that shed doesn't have great ventilation, so instead, I am currently planning on letting the chicken roost in a corner of the run that's more secluded but would still have way better ventilation than the shed.
I could just board up that window and be done with it, but I was thinking that there might be a better use for it.
Another idea I had was to have the nesting boxes embedded in it -> I could divide that space into 4 parts, and build a backing that would hang into the shed (I could get the eggs from there too, though not sure if that would actually be more convenient to be honest). If I do that the nesting boxes would end up 11" wide, 12" high and something like 12" deep (or more, it would be easy to make that up to 16" deep or so). Would that sound appropriate?
If not, is there any other use for a little niche/nook of those dimensions, be it for storage or to enrich the run in some way? If you can think of something let me know!
