Thank you for the invaluable information! My babies are about 3-4 months old and have been in an adjacent pen to my big run for about 3 weeks now. They do have all their feathers but are smaller than my "older ladies" so I have been hesitant to let them integrate into the flock yet. The other...
Madhen - the poop deck has been great - the only thing that we have added is additional siding on the open side to the storage area. They tend to throw the sand around and it gets everywhere, so we added another 1x6 to it and that seems to help. They do like the roosts. We used 2x2s and it works...
hmmc - We technically live in town (on the outskirts) so we are not allowed to have roosters. I am thinking of petitioning to have one though since our closest neighbor (besides my parents) are about 200 yards away. I think it would be fun to watch the mamas raising the babies.
An update - we...
Great Coop - Looks like you had a great time building it! I loved involving the whole family in our coop build like you did! I never dreamed chickens would be such fun pets!
Here is my coop:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-little-red-hen-house
I don't know if I did that correct or not, if not please let me know as I am new to this. I have really enjoyed your site and before we built our coop, I spent hours pouring over plans and other people's chicken...