![]() Now we use it as a home for the chickens who are especially bullied, and when there is peace, we just remove the chicken wire door. This is where our 8 baby chickens were living while we were in SE Asia in the Fall. She’s definitely a little intimidated by the large chickens though. ![]() She gets along well, actually better than some of the standard chickens. The 3 windows always stay open for air except in winter or really heavy rain that might blow in.ġ1 of our chickens are standard size, and we have 1 buff silkie bantam. We have 12 chickens right now, and I think 4 laying boxes is a good amount for them. You can see the roosting bars and slings on the left (the doors are behind those), and the 4 nesting boxes on the right. We used to use removable trays filled with shavings below the bars and we would take them out and clean them, but they were heavy and filled the compost pile with shavings so when we expanded our flock- thus adding another set of bars- we decided to change to tarp slings. On the opposite side of the coop to the nesting boxes there are two sets of doors which open to the roosting bars. I designed the coop for both attractiveness and easy-cleaning. The mini roof of the nesting boxes is the same as the roof over the whole coop. We use some organization bins filled with shavings for boxes. You can get the eggs without even going inside the coop. ![]() One of the great features of the coop is the nesting boxes. I designed it and we built it almost two years ago when we got our first set of 10 baby chicks! You can’t really see it in this picture but my favorite parts are the rooster weather vane on the roof, and the cute heart windows. ![]()
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