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[Chicken Mom Too]

Thank you for adding me to this great, informative site! We lived in the country for 15 years With our kids, cats, dogs, chickens, goats, sheep, rabbits and a donkey. We are now in town and miss our animals so we just got a few chicks I am using an “outhouse” again for the coop and put it inside a dog run/with cover to keep them safe-not quite done setting it up but the chicks are still inside so we have time. We had a rooster and LOVED hearing him crow but he did get mean. We can’t have a rooster in town not because there is an ordinance but because we don’t want to annoy the neighbors or I would get another!

 

[N F C]

Hello, it's nice to have you here...make yourself at home!

 

[drumstick diva]

Thank you for joining us at BYC

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

Aww....your babies are adorable! Nothing wrong with using the outhouse as a coop. We turned our outhouse into a little grain bin to keep livestock feed. Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!

 

[Chicken Mom Too]

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

Aww....your babies are adorable! Nothing wrong with using the outhouse as a coop. We turned our outhouse into a little grain bin to keep livestock feed. Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!

Thank you! That’s a great idea too

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC. Chat with other BYC members nearby using the links in my signature, below (turn your phone to landscape to see them).

Make yourself at home and enjoy the forums.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and welcome to BYC.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
That's a great repurposing of the outhouse! But you might want to add a bunch of ventilation to it. Top hinged windows that are backed with 1/2" hardware cloth and some permanent ventilation openings backed with HC under the roof line and at the gable peaks.

 

[Chicken Mom Too]

Yes, we were thinking same! I don’t think the little area in front will be enough. Thank you!

 

[DobieLover]

Yes, we were thinking same! I don’t think the little area in front will be enough. Thank you!

Feel free to create a new thread here in the Coop & Run forum with pictures of the outside of your coop all the way around and some of the inside of the ceiling area too.