Easy low budget chicken enclosure
We've been trying to merge
our two chicken flocks into one happy group.
It's not going as planned.
The Light
susex breed is still
warming up to our Black
Australorp rooster and his girls. I think he's been chasing them
out of the coop. They've been huddling in a corner of the pasture the
past couple of nights so I decided to build them the above chicken coop
anex.
You can find used
50 gallon plastic barrels
at some feed stores for under 10 dollars. It only took a few minutes to
cut out the entrance with a jig saw.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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A lot of folks around here use these barrels to house fighting cocks, but turned on their ends. In that scenario, they allot one barrel per bird (but presumably that's because they can't let birds get together without fighting.)
If you're using a barrel for laying hens, you'll have to give them some kind of perch in most cases. Our Light Sussex are odd balls in that they're not fans of perching. Maybe three or four hens could perch in one of these at night if they had lots of outside space?