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We finally finished the run.

Whenever you cook burgers, bacon, whatever - put some oatmeal in the greasy pan when you're done. It will soak up all the grease AND become a chicken favorite. They know full well when I'm carrying the oatmeal bowl out to the run. And don't buy premade flock blocks - everyone and their sister...

My husband is a logical man; I'm saving this to show him when he questions how 4 chickens became 8, and now 11.

You know those rubber mats for shoes and boots? I put that under the roost and then throw in the shavings. Then on light-clean weekends, I only have to pull out that mat for 80% of the poop.

Hey! That was our first coop!. Now it's our hospital/maternity/time-out coop. Be very religious about getting snow off the roof or it'll be shot in 4 years (an easy fix, but still...). Super smart perch idea too.

I make sure to shovel them a path to the summer house and the sun house. I also put straw bales against the front of the coop in the winter and they love hanging out underneath the coop - that way they can still have little dirt baths in the winter!

Guess who has room for 4 more chickens if she adds one more vent to the coop?!

Oh, I could care less about the inbreeding; I just didn't want mutant chickens. I have the nicest rooster in the universe and don't want to give him up! If it really is a 'normal' thing, then straight line breeding it is!

The door is blocking it - but there is a 'summer house' back there which I use as the nursery.

Right now I have 8 ladies and a gentleman. My Broody Girl is currently sitting on 5 eggs, and I'm wondering how many more I have room for? Follow up: is 'trading roosters' a thing to keep the inbreeding at zero?

I sure can't until I hear that first cockadoodledoo!

We let Moxie go broody last year, and she hatched one tiny little peeper. We kept mom and baby in their own little coop inside the run so everyone could get to know each other until mom decided to move into the big coop. The little peeper seemed like a normal chick; curious and hungry and not...

We have 2 two-gallon waterers and a heated pad. We just switch it out every day in the winter. For the summer, there's also a 5 gallon metal waterer at the end of the run in the shade which we fill and clean weekly. (For 9 chickens)

They seem to be going around $4/dz around here in NY's Capital District. I'm not saying this to be preachy or holier than thou, but I donate all mine to the local church food pantry - I'd rather have some poor kid have scrambled eggs for breakfast than try to make back a fraction of my costs...

I got a plastic boot tray and stuck that under the perch. Sooo much easier.

That's exactly what I've been doing for 2 winters now. I just stuck an extra vent at the top to make sure. I'll stop cleaning in about 3 weeks (I'm in upstate New York) and just let it go until spring.