We had to think QUICK!

[ovaunda]

We discovered that of our 10 head flock, 8 are roos and only 2 are hens.

One of the roos were being terrorized by the others and we moved him to this small dog run by himself to recover then added the 2 hens. They get along very well.

This is our temporary "fix". We found this small doghouse at CALRanch and put it in the coop to give the "girls" (2 20-week old RIR's - Miley and Clucky) someplace to nest. It must have worked, we got our first egg last night. Crude but effective.

 

[coffeelady3]

That's the dog house I use for my two girls. It works great!

 

[ovaunda]

Oh good...not so crude then.

 

[coffeelady3]

If it is, then we're both crude! (And proud of it too!)

Here's mine...

 

[ovaunda]

We get a lot of snow in the winter - I expect you get a lot of rain, what about snow?

Does this keep them warm in the winter?

 

[coffeelady3]

This is my first year with chickens, so we'll see. Our winters are fairly mild. I live about a mile from Puget Sound, which is a fairly big body of salt water, so that helps keep snow to a minimum. (Maybe once a year, if that.) The dog house is small enough that I think their body heat will keep them warm enough. On days when it's expected to get really cold I can set them up in my mud room, which is where my parrot and pigeon are. We'll see how it goes....

 

[ChanceRider]

Nice job improvising! My 2 ducklings will soon be moving into a very similar doghouse.

 

[ovaunda]

Our first year too. When we got them we housed them in the garage with a heat lamp then moved them outside when the weather warmed up. I am hoping that we will have a full size chicken house by then but will have to keep this little house just for the sake of it being too cute not to keep.

 

[needmorechickens!]

very cute...and you would want to keep it, because with chickens it seems that we always need an infirmary!

~Rebecca

 

[gumpsgirl]

I love it! They look very happy too.