Is this suitable for Chickens

Hi there

I kept 3 chickens in one of those hutches which we already had from keeping guinea pigs.  But we got the bug quite badly so now have 4 chickens and 3 chicks in 2 of these hutches.

We just used some thin hardboard from a B&Q (other DIY stores are available  ) cut it to the shame of the large opening where the mesh had gone and each night we slot it in like we would have done the mesh (there's clips that it fits into).

I have raised it off the ground as apparently chickens like to be up but please don't tell anyone, I never got round to putting in a proper perch.  (that probably makes me a very bad chicken keeper)   

Mine don't sit in their own poo everynight cos I clean out the poo before they go to bed.

Well we all had to start somewhere!
Fiftrix I saw the  lovely large run you have, so I expect they spend all the day rummaging around in that! 

Mines all homemade also, the hen house is years old, when I was a child it was always a dog kennel but my mom and dad kept chickens in it before I was born. It was passed to me for my dogs, but when the rabbit hutch got to small I treated the dogs to new kennel and have transformed the old kennel back into house for the chucks, so plenty of history, blood, sweat and tears!

hello seeker!

what great neighbours! Have a good read of this sticky..

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=32947.0