[CarraghsBorderCollies]

im waiting for my new henhouse+run to arrive (its due on 26th) its a walk in like an aviary!!!
and houses 10-12 birds its entirely self contained (its a wedding present from my mum ),

at the moment i keep my 2 hens+1 chick +rooster in with 6 ducks and  2 goslings they live in a 3X4ft dog kennel raised up on bricks and a 1.5X1.5ft kennel in a 25m electric poultry net run.....

i am currently keeping my 4 chicks in a crate in my small stone shed under a heatlamp
(now only at night)

what do you house your birds in?

[Roxy]

well I have around 70 hens, and they are all free range. They live in an assortment of coops and sheds!!

I have two medium sized hen sheds, and then a wendy house I got off e bay very cheap, so 10 live in here......I have a small square coop which holds another 6 ..........the silkies live in a converted plastic garden trunk - the green storage ones.  The bantie and her 5 chicks are in the large run of a rabbit hutch, and sleep in a large cat carrier in the corner of the run.  Above them in the big rabbit hutch is 4 bantams and a bantie cockerel.  One hen sleeps on its own in the hay barn in another cat carrier......I think thats them all accounted for in their various homes.

[jameslindsay]

My 7 hens are kept overnight in a purpose built chicken coop that is designed to hold 8. First thing in the morning they are out and have a large paddock they share with a rabbit and 7 Pygmy goats. The Pygmy's, when dry, get out of here and are free to roam the land I have. Once the chooks have laid their eggs they too are free to roam the land which is shared with the other goats, geese, ducks and ponies. The ducks are locked up at night in a "tool shed" which has ventilation and an upstairs in it so they have plenty space. The geese have a purpose built house for them as they too get locked up at night (unless they take off for the night down the river).

[little blue]

our 'first' hens and Lenin the cockerel (who came visiting from the neighbours to avoid going to market) live in a childrens playhouse shed with contained run to keep out the fox (and german shepherd!), at 5ft 11 I wanted to be able to clean them out without knocking myself out!  The floor is tiled (an idea stolen from twycross zoo) for easy cleaning and the 'upstairs' of the playhouse is modified for storage.  Perfect!
The new girls will be in a seperate place - two hen houses end on so the run is more than twice as big, as we are changing the roof part.
We also have a "proper" hen house, but the 3 inhabitants seem to be growing up to be cockerels...

[sandy]

3 Black Rocks sleep in a proper hut supposidly big enough for 5 (at a push) but can come out whenever they want into the enclosed woodland type, small garden, the 7 ex battery hens suppose to sleep in a large shed where I have a long perch and several wooden draws full of straw but 1 of them chooses to live in a dog cage, set into a brick Bar b que with a covered roof and again full of straw and the lovely little Duckies go into an enclosed run full of straw, they all take themselves off to bed and get up in the morning as the area is enclosed by a high stone wall, they also choose to lay in the Bar B Que cage and it's sometimes a bit of a que with hens waiting to lay!!!

[CarraghsBorderCollies]

The floor is tiled (an idea stolen from twycross zoo) for easy cleaning and the 'upstairs' of the playhouse is modified for storage.  Perfect!

im putting left over lino in mine!!!
arn't tiles a little cold?

[sandy]

I have some cheap plastic corrigated sheets, I can pull them out and hose them down, they were between £5-£6 each and I am pleased with them although ou sometimes have to chase arund the poo down the gooves but I

[sandy]

"!£$%^&*,,,,,Bu****R..just leaned on the keyboard and posted before I was done!!!!use an old dustpan and brush

[CarraghsBorderCollies]

 

[northfifeduckling]

my first lot of 8 ducks live in a very old hen house, bedding is cardboard and hay. They learnt to walk up the purpose built ramp as a ladder would not have been suitable, lol.
the 4 youngsters live in an Egglu for another few weeks, then they also will move to bigger accommodation, with ramp walking training included and all.
Can't wait to have the egglu for what they are built - hens or bantams!

[ballingall]

We were fortunate when we moved here, that there was lots of chicken runs in the "orchard" thats the posh name for it! There are two purpose built chicken sheds, one of which is split in half, with a pop hole either side. We need to build new runs for the chooks round this shed. The other shed is split into 2 thirds and one third, the runner ducks live on one side, and the call ducks on the other, and the runner ducks have quite a big run attached, and the call ducks a smaller one. As well as this, the 3 Cayuga's live in a garden shed and free range through our mini paddock and into the goats field if they want. Then we have a littleacre run we bought about 12 years ago, which is big enough for about 3 hens, plus a new coop with attached run we bought just last week which is big enough for 5 hens. Once the chicken runs are built, the movable runs will mostly be used to house ducklings and chicks.

Beth

[hexhammeasure]

working on an old victorian estate we keep our hens ducks and quails in the old laundry, concrete floor with hanging beams as roosting perches plenty  of lights about 20ft long 15ft high by 15 ft wide

[doganjo]

Lucky you, lucky birds.  Mine are in a duck shed and a small garden shed, with vinyl on the floor and dowels and window boards for perches, old drawers for nesting boxes, and chopped straw on the floor.  And I don't clean them out enough! Don't know why I keep the horrid dirty beggars!

[sandy]

When the sun was out me and my OH sat and had our with the birds so I popped into the shed with my trowel and collected some big bits of poo in the empty Crisp bags then put them into the large black bag as I had more rubbish, I foundthe crisp bags in Ben's bed!!!!! what a lunch he had

[doganjo]

Thanks for the warning - no kisses for him next time I'm up.