Please tell me to stop shopping for chicken coops. Please tell me this is enough room for my 3 hens. I love having chickens. I mean obsession! If they broke up with me I would stalk them, kind of love. I am constantly looking for new and improved coops and ideas and feeding and dust bath etc.
Problem is we rent, were military and will move again in 9-24 months (long story) and were on the down low even having these 3 hens. Our county permits hens but the city does not. My neighbors do not mind and frankly every neighbor has been very very supportive and interested.
So the coop run was just to small for them, I made a new run area from pvc. They seem much happier and love to go running out in the morning now. They go back and forth all day long from coop to run.
I have put in a new cup waterer and have NO drip or nasty water problems. Solved the problem with them swiping the food out of the feeder by putting some plastic chicken fencing over the top as a guard.
The humidity goes up at night but its washington, its never much more than the outside humidity. I have figured out that they needed more ventilation and I have provided that by stopping the lid from shutting at about 1/4 in so it vents the entire coop from the top letting the warmer air out. So far it works great I can get the humidity down to very close to outside humidity day and night.
I have started selling my extra clutter on craigslist and have a tin can with a chicken on it holding the money. (its my chicken spending money) Did I mention I am obsessed with them?
I need to be told its enough.
I have plans for a dust bath in that back empty area in the coop, they really don't go in there much now its part of the built in nest box but it was huge and I divided it an sectioned it off.
Soooo am I done? Is this acceptable for 3 hens to be happy and lay happy chicken eggs?
If so I can start obsessing about the garden.
I have CCDO, its the same as Chicken OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be, lol.
Problem is we rent, were military and will move again in 9-24 months (long story) and were on the down low even having these 3 hens. Our county permits hens but the city does not. My neighbors do not mind and frankly every neighbor has been very very supportive and interested.
So the coop run was just to small for them, I made a new run area from pvc. They seem much happier and love to go running out in the morning now. They go back and forth all day long from coop to run.
I have put in a new cup waterer and have NO drip or nasty water problems. Solved the problem with them swiping the food out of the feeder by putting some plastic chicken fencing over the top as a guard.
The humidity goes up at night but its washington, its never much more than the outside humidity. I have figured out that they needed more ventilation and I have provided that by stopping the lid from shutting at about 1/4 in so it vents the entire coop from the top letting the warmer air out. So far it works great I can get the humidity down to very close to outside humidity day and night.
I have started selling my extra clutter on craigslist and have a tin can with a chicken on it holding the money. (its my chicken spending money) Did I mention I am obsessed with them?
I need to be told its enough.
I have plans for a dust bath in that back empty area in the coop, they really don't go in there much now its part of the built in nest box but it was huge and I divided it an sectioned it off.
Soooo am I done? Is this acceptable for 3 hens to be happy and lay happy chicken eggs?
If so I can start obsessing about the garden.
I have CCDO, its the same as Chicken OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be, lol.
