Chicken run for 10 chickens

Here I will let you have a rough idea about what size of the chicken coop is suitable for 10 chickens. Learn More!

The HH is making progress on the chicken run! Since we didn’t have a blueprint for a run he is totally winging it based off a few pictures I showed him. The run will be 16 feet long and 12 feet of the run will have a matching cedar shake roof. We are hoping that Read More >>

When you’re new to chickens, you’ll find that one of the most surprising things about raising them is how dramatically they behave in both the hot and the cold weather. From everything you’ve read, you probably think that your chickens will be happy in 80-90 degree temperatures, and that they’ll b

For chicken coops and runs, size does matter! A rule of thumb: foresee at least 3 to 5 square feet per chicken in the chicken coop and a minimum of 10 square feet per chicken in the run. These are guidelines, not every flock is the same. In poultry farms all over the world, layer hens are surviving in extreme forms of confinement with windowless sheds and artificial lightning. Give your hens some space and love! Let's deep dive into all the ins and outs and see why space is so important...

If your hens are needing a bit of safe grazing and free ranging space to scratch and peck, check out this large collection of FREE chicken run building plans to DIY attach to your chicken coop:

Chicken Coop and Extra Large Run - because chicken math is real and we wanted to keep our chickens safe from the predators!

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This is our first chicken coup for our first chickens. I looked at some designs on here and took the ideas I liked and this is what I came up with. The first weekend on the project all we did was the foundation. The foundation area is 8' x...

Setting up a chicken run? Make sure it’s predator-proof! Get simple tips on how to build a chicken run that is secure and that protects your chickens. Learn the best materials, fencing ideas, and how to keep your flock safely inside while keeping predators out of your coop.

Our Farmhouse DIY Chicken coop is finally finished and I couldn’t be more proud with how it turned out!!

Easy calculator to calculate: - chicken coop size - chicken run size - number of nesting boxes - number of eggs to expect

When your chickens don’t have the proper material in their run, it can cause problems for you and them. When we first got chickens we didn’t know what would be the best material. We use…

After we got our 4 girls 10 weeks ago and saw just how much damage they can do to our lawn we decided that to give our lawn a chance of remaining green and not turning into a mud bog we would extend the run as a compromise so that we could reduce the amount of free ranging but still giving the gi...