Chickens-outside!

As a prior post noted, we are raising chickens.  After nearly a month inside as chicks they are, blessedly, outside in their own large run.  We decided to go with some pre-fab coops that we ordered online and then assembled once they got to us because we concluded that it was just more cost effective than converting a large building that we have on the property in to a coop.  Plus we wanted to utilize the large yard you see the run in.  That amount of grass is not useful to us and was just eating up valuable water.  So we constructed a run with two chicken wire fences:  a tall outer perimeter and a shorter area that has the coops in it.  It was fairly cheap; although pounding the posts was not the easiest thing.   No foxes or coyotes have gotten in, but we may have had a few losses from hawks, but adding a top would be too elaborate at this point.  Plus, they'll grow and that threat will diminish.

The whole chicken run.

The double fence set up

Inside the coop

One of our cats "guarding" the chickens