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Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:02 pm**

: This is the hen house in the barn for the winter. There are 3 nesting boxes.

: This is the enclosure in the barn.

Next is our outside set-up.

: This is the hen coop with the external, removable nesting boxes and the removable tray floor.

: This is the whole outside chicken and turkey set-up. Turkey enclosure is at the left.

The inside enclosure first housed our meat chickens. Outside, the coop in the middle is for the new hens that we got this past September; it has 2 large external nesting boxes with one hinged lid, and a hinged roof that can be propped up so the front wall can be let down for cleaning. The coop on the left, with its 3 nesting boxes was not enough for the 15 hens. The coop on the far right is our original coop for the Frey's Dual Purpose meat chickens. Because the hens started laying, we put a plastic crate in there for a nesting box.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:19 pm**

Nice set up, particularily like the outside set up.

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 6:40 am**

Great job, I'm jealous :D

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:36 pm**

Awesome! Wanna come build me 4 or 5 just like that? :D I will feed you and beer you and provide all materials :D

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:02 pm**

Take her up on that one - great Chili and bread!

Posted: **Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:37 pm**

Very nice, looks like a little poultry village :)

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:52 am**

windwalkingwolf wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:36 pm
Awesome! Wanna come build me 4 or 5 just like that? :D I will feed you and beer you and provide all materials :D

Let the bidding begin! I'll give you double the food and beer WWW gives you!

(if I am left alone, somehow I end up holding a chainsaw and cutting firewood instead of doing the other stuff that needs doing.)

Posted: **Mon Feb 12, 2018 11:26 pm**

You have a great set up....nice size yard for the birds. I'm jealous!

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:29 am**

Thanks for all the compliments! I cannot take any credit; it's all my husband's doing. The only thing I did was lace the top and bottom, and overhead chicken wire together. Or hold something in place for him while he was building it. As it turns out, it is a bit of advertising because it is clearly seen from the road.
Someone asked us once, why we did not put the chickens behind one of the barns. I told them it was because we can't see them from the house if they were back there, which is true. When we do let them out of the enclosures, we are also outside.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:33 am**

windwalkingwolf wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 29, 2018 3:36 pm
Awesome! Wanna come build me 4 or 5 just like that? :D I will feed you and beer you and provide all materials :D

If you ever make your way to the Westport area via Hwy15 to CR42, you will pass our place 2 minutes outside of Westport.

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