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[Peterr35]

 

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[Latestarter]

Grats on a nice build and welcome to BYC. Couple comments, suggestions. Move the roosts away from the nest boxes and have the highest roost bar ABOVE the level of the nest boxes, else-wise you're going to have birds sleeping and pooping all night in the nest boxes. Second, lessen the angle of the roost bars so there's more horizontal separation between them, else-wise, you're going to have higher pecking order birds pooping from above, down onto lower pecking order birds below them. Third, roost bars for adult large fowl birds should ideally be at least 3" in diameter (A 2x4 with wide side up works), as the birds tend to sit flat footed and rest on their keel bone (chest) to cover their feet with their feathers when cold. Chickens don't "perch" like song birds, they roost. Fourth, make sure that highest roost is at least a foot away from any wall so the birds have room to turn around if they need/want to. Fifth, normal adult large fowl birds can hop with a flap up 2-3 feet relatively easily, but coming down off a high roost, they prefer to fly and their glide path is somewhat less than a 45 degree angle, so make sure you have a minimum of 18" + horizontal distance/space for every 12" of vertical height of the roost once it gets above say 24-30 inches in height. Otherwise, you're going to have chickens with severe headaches every morning from flying head first into the opposing wall. Being in AZ, you need quite a bit more ventilation. It's going to be an oven in there.

 

[cmccullough1390]

Home sweet home for me boys and girls just some last bit cleaning and then they'll be in their home... I do wanna add one more 8 ft roost

 

[chickluvinfreak]

Home sweet home for me boys and girls just some last bit cleaning and then they'll be in their home... I do wanna add one more 8 ft roost

Beautiful coop! I love the run, it's so big. Great job

 

[cmccullough1390]

Beautiful coop! I love the run, it's so big. Great job

Thank you I hope they enjoy I did a head count today and we have 32 chicks... 12 of them are bantams and they all brood together

 

[WhisperingOaks]

I love this coop. Here's a view of the inside and the outside with the run. The inside has nesting boxes with a broody area up top. You can see there is a broody up there right now setting eggs for me. The roosts are over heavy gauge wire that the poo falls through. I just rake it up and toss it out. It blends into the trees and doesn't stand out at all. Perfect for me!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Home sweet home for me boys and girls just some last bit cleaning and then they'll be in their home... I do wanna add one more 8 ft roost

I love it but I'd recommend adding a lip to those nest boxes so they don't kick the bedding out and eggs don't roll out ha

 

[ShrekDawg]

But otherwise I love it