This is our chicken coop. It's 14' wide and about 8-10 feet deep. It's next to our barn. My husband built it last spring and he poured concrete footings all the way around, 12" deep, to keep any critters from digging under and attacking our chickens. my husband put insulation in the walls and during the coldest winter months, he had hay stacked up high to keep out the wind on the screen side. And the window was covered and shut.
And this is the area beside it that my husband is going to make an outdoor run area that they can access freely. It will have fencing on the sides and the top to protect the chickens from hawks, which are common in our area. It's the flagged area. I estimate that it's about 16 feet by 16 feet:
This is the brooder coop that my husband built for our chicks to stay warm when we first received them. We put it in our barn and hung brooder lights inside. It's on wheels, so it's easy to move around. (There is a mean chicken inside in this pic that we isolated from the flock.):
Here's our three nesting boxes with a hen on one nest:
And cause I can't resist, a closeup of our gorgeous new roo. He's a buff orp, just like our hens:
And this is the area beside it that my husband is going to make an outdoor run area that they can access freely. It will have fencing on the sides and the top to protect the chickens from hawks, which are common in our area. It's the flagged area. I estimate that it's about 16 feet by 16 feet:
This is the brooder coop that my husband built for our chicks to stay warm when we first received them. We put it in our barn and hung brooder lights inside. It's on wheels, so it's easy to move around. (There is a mean chicken inside in this pic that we isolated from the flock.):
Here's our three nesting boxes with a hen on one nest:
And cause I can't resist, a closeup of our gorgeous new roo. He's a buff orp, just like our hens:
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