Articles by FiveHens

Welcome to the FiveHens Run Construction Page! The idea for the run was to give our four hens room to run around in all day as, as I mentioned, we do not plan on letting them do lots of free-ranging. The basic idea is that the coop is in the corner of the rectangular run, with the nest...

Welcome to FiveHens' Coop Construction Page! Click HERE to view Run Construction Page! When I was designing our coop, I used the pictures of all the coops here for ideas, so I thought I'd show how our turns out to give other people a few ideas! We wanted to build our small coop for not...

Welcome to FiveHen's BYC Page! {Woodsy suburban neighborhood, 1 family, 1 dog, six hens} **Make sure to see the "Coop" page at the top!** So...in the beginning... We got five chicks from a friend, who had hatched them for us under one of her hens. We got them when they were bitty babies...