Stalls 2 & 3 were built at the same time.  We decided to keep extending the roofline from the Aviary to create these stalls.  Just like with the aviary, we added 2 posts 7 feet from the end of the previous coop, roofed it, added wire walls and a door. Simple, easy & effective!

Just like with the Aviary, these stalls are 9 feet deep and 7 feet wide, creating 63sf of living space.  The doors were fashioned from old fence panels & some metal strapping. Pretty easy, nothing complicated.

Our experience from last winter helped us decide that wire walls are perfectly good, but we will be adding a “sleeping box” inside of each. Call it a mini coop, or a perch cover, regardless the space will be small enough for them to huddle inside of and not much bigger. 

We may also consider wrapping the WHOLE thing in plastic.. from the back of the hen house all the way to the end and back around the front, but probably won’t do that.

I’ll update this after the winter months to let you know what we did and how it went.

Dirt floors are common around here.  Once the grass is gone, we layer on several inches of construction sand and scoop the poop often.

Lengths of rough cut timbers were used to create a partition at the ground level between the pens on either side.

Notice the perch ends in a big square of plywood.  This is because on the other side, in Stall 3, their perch also ends at the exact same place. So at night, the birds in both coops huddle up against the interior shared wall, but this keeps them from fighting through the wire.

The blue tub is the nest box, a plastic storage tote from WalMart. The ramp goes nowhere, but is something to hop on and under.  The flower pot base is their feeder, and we use a standard poultry waterer.

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