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The PawHut 76" Wooden Chicken Coop is a spacious and secure outdoor home for your chickens, featuring a large run, nesting box, and easy-access doors. Built with a weather-resistant fir wood frame and designed for comfort, this coop is perfect for 2-4 chickens, ensuring they have a safe and cozy environment.
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good for 3 hens while sleeping, but need more run space
I have 2 of these because "chicken math". (if you now, you know). Three medium hens in each, a fourth would be crowded unless they were all a smaller breed (like Polish or bantams). It works well for sleeping, provides good ventilation with little to no draft. Walls are thin though, so not very insulating. The little run space underneath worked when they were 10-16 weeks old, but it is no substitute for a larger run area. I have them set up inside a covered 12x12 run which works well for my little backyard flock of 6 hens. These coops were easy to assemble, I did it all by myself over the course of several days, after letting the pieces air out for several weeks (they arrive with a strong chemical odor, which dissipated after 2 to 3 weeks of airing out prior to assembly). I suggest drilling small pilot holes for the hardware screws as the framing where the hardware goes is very thin and prone to splitting. I found that a hand-held screw driver was necessary as my power driver was too much for such thin wood. The metal tray is too shallow, so I end up removing all the shavings by raking/sweeping before trying to pull out the tray for cleaning. The roosting bar is too narrow for long-term use, only about 1.5 inches wide. I will be gluing a 1x3 on top of it soon. The nesting areas are very cramped for even just a medium sized bird, and with only 3 hens in each, they don't need 2 nesting areas, so I removed the divider, and they are more comfortable. I put 2 vinyl floor tiles in the nesting area to be able to clean its floor. The front door would be improved if it were bigger. It is big enough to put a hen into the coop, but it is too small to allow for reaching inside the coop for cleaning, especially for wiping off the roosting bar - the small door makes this hard to reach. The ramp off the side door was too slick and its ridges too widely spaced for young pullets; I added rubberized vinyl and extra rungs so they could get down the ramp more easily and safely. The ramp ends too close to the side wall, they kind of pile up there in the mornings coming down the ramp, and the narrowness for the unit does not allow much space for jumping off the ramp early. These were decent starter coops for a few pullets for a new chicken owner to keep in the backyard. I will be building my 6 girls a larger coop (repurposing a no-longer-used child's play structure) in spring, so I can bring all 6 finally together at night. I will keep one of these little coops in case I need a temporary recuperation coop in the future.
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