Rural Gardening: Tour de Coop - Let's see them!, 0 by WigglyPaw

WigglyPaw wrote:
Here is my chicken house. We call it the :"Petite Trianon du Poulet" after
Marie Antoinettes Petite Trianon at Versaille.
Anyhow, thats how it seems to me and the chickens. : )

We have a divided section in it with separate doors for baby chicks, and
meat birds, we keep them separate from the laying hens.

Our roost is high, over 6 feet, and very rough barked limbs. The chickens
love it! They are safe at night. The turkey (Pete) sleeps on a roost
in front of the nest boxes, she can't make it up to the big girls roosts.
I have the limbs set up 12 " apart, and 3" down from each other. We have
big chickens, and don't want anyone to be pooping on anyone else. Underneath,
it is easy to rake out the dried festering poo. ugh. we now have a sand base
in the chicken house, and that keeps it much drier than the dirt and straw
we had last year.

The door windows mostly have broken out, so we need to put some plastic over
them. That door is wobbly! LOL.

This winter I have the waterer outside the chicken house, to encourage them
to get out more during the day. Also, the feed bowls are outside to get em out.

this year we took down the 4" high cattle fencing surroun ding the chicken
pasture. It wasn't doing anything anyhow. They just flew right over it, and I
can't keep up with the chicken feather cuttings. I get confused over who got
cut feathers. DH wants to put up very tall poles this year and make the
chciken yard 6' hight, but even that they can fly right over. I guess the
only solution is to cut their flight feathers. sigh. I got some high flying chickens
and ducks! My Mallard girl flys around the house and yard, in the autumn
she flew about 50' high and around about 5 acres, with dear husband runner
duck calling piteously from the ground. I don't think she is going to leave him
after all.
Sheri