Thank you! But that's only part of it... there's a shameful secret section on the other side of the house that stores the scrap wood pile, empty nursery pots and leftover fencing. Because you never know when all that garbage will be desperately needed someday.
My chickens share my property with all the neighborhood rabbits. Between all of them, I have no flowers, no weeds and no garden. At least its a sanctuary for the rabbits as refuge from all the other neighbors dogs and cats. The wild rabbits are pretty tame and eat right next to me and the chickens.
Awww! Sounds like they found the safest place to hang out. They're so cute!
Yes, that's a good point about the spacing of the bars. I researched that before I built the gate because it was definitely a concern. I wish I could remember where I found this information, but apparently horizontal bars work differently in an animal's mind. Yes, they will always try to squeeze through a space -as long as their body is upright when it fits through. But chickens and some other types of animals don't think to turn their body sideways to fit.How beautiful! I am hoping to get my yard to look like that some year.
I used a door from a horse stall as my coop door. It has similar bars in it in the top half, only vertical. I had to cover them with wire fencing because when my pullet learned to fly, she would fly up and squeeze out between the bars so she could wander around the barn. By the way, a wandering chicken poops on everything! I would have to put her back in the coop everyday when I got home from work.
You may need to have an Option 2 for when you get more chickens and put young ones in there.
Oh! That's right! Well actually I had a weird dilemma about one of my chickens and I couldn't find any specific information to help, so I had to sign up to ask a question, but then I got distracted with having to write an introduction and completely forgot my original purpose!
