CHICKEN HOUSES - a few questions - I NEED ANSWERS!!!

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1. What house do your chickens live in?
2. How many and what sort of chickens are they?
3. How big is your garden?
4. Is it easily movable?

Thank you!!!

Don't have hens anymore, but how many are you thinking of getting?

Initially I'd like 3, possibly up to 5, but would be happy with 3. I don't have a very big garden, so I wonder if an 'ark' type house would be better than square one, which might limit the number of chickens. We're probably going to build our own, so could adapt ideas.

chicken house

Nice but pricey - could you make it?

We had 2 in a rabbit hutch with a perch plus a 4ft square run

We inherited one which was made by the previous owners of the hens (they were moving home and couldn't take it to the new place.)

It was really, really heavy. And very awkward to clean. On the plus side it was spacious..........

i have a small front bit of land my chickens are on they live in a 8ft ark with a house at one end we have two female bantams they feed on chicken pellets and everything else scraps you can buy a portable run that has a roof from Tschibo online

1. An old garden shed converted for chickens with perch, pop hole and egg box.

1. One light sussex rooster, 2 speckeldeys, 1 black rock, 1 maran, 3 non descript rescue hens anfd a Partridge Wyandotte (in a pear tree - ho ho)

1. Quite big but they are kept in the front garden but need moving to some nice new grass.

1. Big one no, but Wyandotte lives in a moveable ark as the others beat her up.

We've just had to give our chicks back .

They were bantams but turned out they were both boys!

Anyway, apart from that: you do need a reasonable size lawn - not just a reasonable size garden - unless you are prepared to tolerate poo everywhere. And I do mean everywhere!

That is another reason why we had to let them go. They need their own area outside of the coop. Our 'garden' is mostly not lawn.

You don't need a cockerel to get the hens to lay, just think of a battery farm, no cockerels there! Could be due to it having got a bit colder and wet.

There is a picture of my big cock on my profile.

What??!!

Soryy, hasve lowered tone.

Are some of them getting broody? or maybe malting? Fickle things are chickens

Malory - did a fox get your rooster? If so the hens may still be in shock, that can make them stoplaying. Hopefully they have short memories

MaloryTowers - yes clean LOL!

And maybe a new man for the girls, but perhaps you don't need one tho'?!

Malory - maybe the bad weather has caused it?

(btw, what do you do with 20 eggs a day, do you sell them?)

1 \link{http://www.domesticfowltrust.co.uk/poultry1.html\penthouse is our house we have had it for years. started off with an ark.
2 we used to have 8 but one died of natural causes and then 4 got eaten by the fox. We now have three. we keep a mix of bantams (lovely little ones that are friendly but don't really lay much) and the industrial hybrids which lay every day and then keel over over 2 years. All friendly though. had chickens for year sand years now and had lots of different sorts. really want marans next.
3 long and thin (180 foot maybe?)
4 not really though it says it is. i can't do it alone