Chicken Housing

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Chickens aren't too fussy about their housing. Usually if it keeps the rain and most of the wind off and has a place to roost and nest, they're good with it. We had a renovated dog kennel at our last house that was the chicken coop. It was three feet up off the ground so the mongoose couldn't get in but the chickens could jump up into it. Had a wire floor so everything fell through. Tin roof of course, old coffee tree trunks for perches. A couple of boxes on the side to lay eggs in and they were happy with it. We usually left the door open and they'd put themselves in there at night. The back yard was fenced and our own chicken friendly dogs patrolled it so the chickens were pretty safe as long as they stayed in the back yard. We did lose a whole chicken tractor of half grown birds when the tractor was made without a place for the birds inside to fly up away from mongoose, though. They were trapped in the tractor and the mongoose killed all ten of them and ate the crops. Probably something in half digested crop contents that mongoose need in their diet or something.

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