potential problems and created a design to keep the adult hens and roosters, as well as any baby chicks, safe and comfortable.
for most of the year, we let the poultry free-range. it is only in the early springtime when we need our small vegetables to become established without being destroyed by chickens that we keep them locked in their yard area all day.
we built their new safe chicken run and hen house in time for spring. when they moved in, the ground was covered with grass—which they quickly ate.
the photo shows what the area looked like when the poultry had been in the run just long enough to eat all 