Ideas wanted please

[NSB]

Please can all the chicken keepers please attach a picture of their chicken houses and runs and the amount of chickens that you keep, us beginners need some DIY inspiration and practical advice please

[lynda66]

ooooo yeah i second that, i've been looking for chicken house inspiration all day ..... have a huge covered foxproof run designed, just need to sort the palatial housing out

[vicky]

vickyr100/chickens - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Well hopefully that's the photos...

It's a converted wendy house for 4 chickens

[Snadger]

vickyr100/chickens - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Well hopefully that's the photos...

It's a converted wendy house for 4 chickens

I can't believe you've still got grass left in the run!

[Bephlam]

OMG Vicky, you've still got lovely grass. How come?

[MaureenHall]

Well here goes don't know if it'll let me upload all the pics, if not I'll have to do 2 posts.

I've got a "posh" coop, and a converted rabbit hutch. All the chooks sleep in the posh one, and they use the hutch and the coop for nesting / egg laying

[MaureenHall]

nest pics

Here's the next lot

[MaureenHall]

By the way, I've got 9 chickens in a fenced off third of the garden. Yes, there is still a bit of grass left, even after 6 months, but i wouldn't call it a lawn

[Hans Mum]

[QUOTE It's a converted wendy house for 4 chickensQUOTE]


vicky is there a reason its painted white inside? i've got a redundant wendy house which is looking more & more like a house for chix

[vicky]

Those photos were taken before the chickens moved in....there's still some grass but nothing like that! At some point I will divide the run in two so the grass can recover a bit.

The inside is white cos it's painted with gloss paint as I read somewhere it can help deter mites - less cracks for them to live in - some have said it doesn't work, but I figured it was worth a try as we had leftover gloss paint, incidently if you paint it in gloss you have to do it a while before chooks move in as the fumes linger.

[Hans Mum]

Those photos were taken before the chickens moved in....there's still some grass but nothing like that! At some point I will divide the run in two so the grass can recover a bit.

The inside is white cos it's painted with gloss paint as I read somewhere it can help deter mites - less cracks for them to live in - some have said it doesn't work, but I figured it was worth a try as we had leftover gloss paint, incidently if you paint it in gloss you have to do it a while before chooks move in as the fumes linger.

thanks for that