hen coop

What is That?!

We found this at the local goat auction. We traded for it from an ol' man.
It was his design. The Hen stays in and the little chicks can go exploring
and when the hen clucks the chicks all run back to her.
Amazing and simple.
The hen will raise the chicks for about a month - 6 weeks.
Then she'll run 'em off and lay more eggs.
By then the chicks are able to fly up to a roosting pole or limb to rest or escape.

I'll give the hen a little chicken scratch grain and water everyday and they all can eat clover
and fertilize the lawn.

Maybe will make more of these hen coops from the leftover cedar from the strawberry bed.