Chicken run cover ideas

A common question I have heard people ask is “Does a chicken run need a roof?” Maybe you have wondered that yourself. You have probably seen a lot of chicken runs with a roof and then also the many without. So what gives? #backyardchickens #chickencoop #chickenrun

We have been working on getting some hens for a long time now. We have lots of hawks here. I have seen 4 different species. Not doubt there are owls too. We did not want our chickens to end up as food for the birds of prey. We had a bunch of shade cloth which had been used over the greenhouse at our garden center (now closed due to drought and economic collapse). We used the shade cloth to cover the run to keep out the hawks and keep the chickens in. It will keep them cooler in our blazing…

My Ameracauna rooster Steve loves to fly up over my six foot high pen in order to terrorize Bob, the handsome new SL Wyandotte cockerel (little does Steve...

Chicken Coop Ideas

My Ameracauna rooster Steve loves to fly up over my six foot high pen in order to terrorize Bob, the handsome new SL Wyandotte cockerel (little does Steve...

We just lost our first chicken...a hawk got it a couple days ago. And of course it was one of my favorite ones! Any recommendations for hawk deterrent...

Hi! I am dimensionally challenged, and need some advice from chickie folk! I have 3 cattle panels and want to make the largest portable hoop coop that can...

What are your suggestions for a predator proof chicken run? Is it a good idea to embed wire and posts for the run into a concrete footing so nothing can...

i used wire mesh for the sides of my run and just regular chicken wire for the top.

I love chickens! And I love plants! But how do you successfully combine the two? No one wants to spend time and money at a nursery only to have their backyard flock consume everything, but we also don’t want our chickens to be in an ugly dirt wasteland (or even worse, get poisoned). In this […]