need suggestions on how to create separate space for new pullets. **pics**

[nab58]

I'll be getting 3 Easter Eggers chicks soon and will need to integrated them into my flock of 6 red sex links once they're big enough and the weather warms up.

I'm not quite sure how to make a separate indoor/outdoor space in my coop and run.

We're thinking of making another pop door to the right of the existing door and then putting up chicken wire inside and out to make two separate areas.

any other suggestions on how we could do this that would require less work?

Here's a pic of the coop/run and a sketch of the inside.

 

[forgetful]

The best setup I've seen for the inside of the coop is a wire cage under the roost. That way the adult birds can't perch on top of their cage and poop on them. The cage had small doors that the chicks could run through, but the hens not. That way the pullets could socialize with the hens then hide when intimidated. Maybe have a similar setup in the run? Put a wall of wire up to section off a slice of the run, and put little openings in at the bottom for the pullets to run in and out of.

 

[forgetful]

If you used chicken wire, the setup could be relatively cheap and easy to install/remove. Since it wouldn't be used as an exterior wall, and therefore not have to be predator proof, chicken wire would be a good way to go.