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.

You can also see that there is a smaller pen inside of this bigger pen.  We call the smaller pen the “isolation cage”.

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 runs diagonally right into the previous coop, where the plywood to keep them from bickering at night separates their perches.

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.  They eat out of a plant hanger, the type that hangs over your porch railing, with a bowl in it.

We also built in an “isolation cage” from wood palettes.

The isolation cage was created with a couple of purposes in mind.  First, to store the breeding rooster when the hens need a bit of a break. Second, to house a broody hen for her incubation period.

Mostly the nest box resides inside of this area when we don’t have anyone to isolate.

In this photo, we’ve put our Blue GLO Cockerel inside to demonstrate the size of the coop.  No... just kidding, he’s in there because at the time he was in transit and didn’t have a coop to live in.

You can also see here the plant hanger I mentioned earlier.  We use one inside the isolation cage as well.  They are very easy to hang & work with.

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