We mostly have eagles during the day and they can all hide under it. 
At night gate automatically closes and no predator enters. Although foxes could completely just make a hole in the plastic, they don't.  

 I have an upgraded design with better nestboxes that I'm planning to fully document. 
Here's the previous design's structure (with a hint at the current nestbox set up, that I'll change): https://cdn.satellite.earth/fcc2bae4444cc1e8c68a549a5df554d0caa6dd5b98ce0c021132614ae58d8588.jpg 

 Nice chickshaw. What type of chickens are those yellow ones? I may want to get some for my small flock. 

Do you sell direct to customer? Roadside stand? Restaurants? 

 Buff Orpington. Good year-round layers and calm temperament. They also make excellent mothers and will sit on a nest or adopt chicks very readily.

We sell direct to customers here on the farm from our farmstand and at farmer’s markets, as well as to the local coop and restaurants. Eggs are a small portion of our bottom line overall, but chickens fit in so well to a farm/farmstead I consider them essential regardless. 

 I agree. They are worth keeping just for fertility. Everything else can be viewed as a bonus. 

I raised a batch of 20 freedom rangers for meat 2 years ago. I did free range and will not do that again. I now have 8 laying hens. I'm pretty new to this. I'm using deep bedding to produce compost. Every couple days I add carbon and biochar then feed them on top of this. Seems to be working well.  

 I started from a similar chicksaw design but wanted them to be able to express their pecking irder. Hence the triangle shape (inspired by the mobiles of Richard Perkins and Heather Hill farm etc). 

You have 80 chickens in that one coop? That's great though 👌. 

Love the farm building btw 🤩. 

 Yeah I think I might prefer a triangle roof for that reason. We started with 50 birds but found there was more than enough space- They tend to huddle all together no matter how much room you give. Plus keeps them warmer in winter. They don’t really spend any time in the coop and are only inside for a few hours at night. The rest of the time out on grass. 

 Exactly how I see it too. Our coop could easily host 100. But don't even get me started on French regulations 😏 

 Look at all those chickens 

 God knows.
When we were "officially" farming we got all these letters about how we should keep our chickens locked up inside because of ViRuSeS. We ignored all of that stuff. 
They have no way to enforce all these things, except for the mega farms where they literally have their own personnel for "compliance" (no joke). 

Our customers bought with us **because** of the whole pasture rotation + bug eating set up. We delivered. 

 This is the way! 

 Egg collection at hand-height, me gusta!

How do clean it out? Or does it have a grid floor too? 

 Yes, a grid floor. However, we covered the floor with wood chips because the chickens would not jump down onto it. 

 Not yet 😔
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