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[ABQ chicken keeper]

Thank you. I always wear a mask because of copd

Sounds like your basement is going to home for awhile. How big are you chicks? Get pellets or wood shavings to keep clean-up to a minimum. Chain link panels, as suggested would be your best solution ... how large is your basement ... including headroom?

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Are you able to get to someplace like Home Depot? When a tornado took down our run we replaced it with some t-posts and 2"x4" welded wire fencing. We got it up very quickly. Or is the ground too frozen to pound in t-posts?

 

[Chickenmoms]

12x20 approximately 6ft high my babies were born beginning of last March 2 lavender 5 long horn 6 RI reds

 

[Chickenmoms]

Are you able to get to someplace like Home Depot? When a tornado took down our run we replaced it with some t-posts and 2"x4" welded wire fencing. We got it up very quickly. Or is the ground too frozen to pound in t-posts?

33 inches on ground 2-4 starting now and another storm next weekend

 

[Chickenmoms]

33 inches on ground 2-4 starting now and another storm next weekend

I’m in MA and I can’t remember when we had so much snow

 

[ABQ chicken keeper]

12x20 approximately 6ft high my babies were born beginning of last March 2 lavender 5 long horn 6 RI reds

Four eight foot chain panels or combination of panels equaling 64 sq feet should do it. Do have roosts that can be salvaged from your coop that you can bring in to get them off the floor? any roosters?

 

[Chickenmoms]

Four eight foot chain panels or combination of panels equaling 64 sq feet should do it. Do have roosts that can be salvaged from your coop that you can bring in to get them off the floor? any roosters?

I do not have any roosters. We are not allowed to have them in our town. I have a friend with a farm in another town who took him
I am going to put pallets around the room because I can’t put bars up for them

 

[NatJ]

in my basement...no way to put roosting bars

Chickens can happily roost on sawhorses or chairs or many other kinds of things. Of course these things will get poopy, so be prepared to throw them away afterward, or consider them permanent chicken furniture.)

There are plenty of ways to create enough roosting space buy just propping a long board between two supports (chairs, sawhorses, cinder blocks standing on their ends, and so forth.) Make sure the board will not fall down when the chickens fly up and down (clamp or screw it to the sawhorses, run it through the backs of the chairs or the holes of the cinder blocks, etc.)

You could make a structure like what holds the nests, but a little taller, and let them roost on it without the plastic bins (taller because chickens like to roost on the highest available surface: you want that to be the roosts, not the nests.)

 

[Chickenmoms]

Chickens can happily roost on sawhorses or chairs or many other kinds of things. Of course these things will get poopy, so be prepared to throw them away afterward, or consider them permanent chicken furniture.)

There are plenty of ways to create enough roosting space buy just propping a long board between two supports (chairs, sawhorses, cinder blocks standing on their ends, and so forth.) Make sure the board will not fall down when the chickens fly up and down (clamp or screw it to the sawhorses, run it through the backs of the chairs or the holes of the cinder blocks, etc.)

You could make a structure like what holds the nests, but a little taller, and let them roost on it without the plastic bins (taller because chickens like to roost on the highest available surface: you want that to be the roosts, not the nests.)

Thank you sounds perfect