I may have found a playhouse for my chicken coop. It is for sale in Heidelberg. It comes with a sandbox. The chickens can take a dust bath in the sand box. I hear they like that. We will put a window on it, and a nesting box, and place it on a shipping pallet. The entire thing will sit in a chicken run that will be made from my old tomato house/hoop house. The chicken run is 3 meters wide and 6 meters long. It will all come together in a few short months. Hope to have the chickens at the beginning of April.
Why not start with an IBC and cut a hole for the door? You could build closed laying boxes into it, and something for the chickens to roost on. Put some straw or saw dust on the floor. You could add vents to the side for air. If it sat inside a chicken run that you can walk into, the chickens could be safe, dry and happy. I have an extra IBC. Maybe this could be my chicken house? I bet I could even plant the outside of it with mud and grass for extra insulation and good looks.
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