I have made panels, I have garages at the back of me, I have a raised garden at the bottom, nothing grew on it apart from weeds, so I have the panels leaning on the garage wall, the bed is raised about 2 feet, when I ned to dig the ground over, I take the panels down, (they are about 6-7 feet long, but about 3 feet wide, mesh is stapled on it, big staples) to removed them I have a rope at the top, pull them vertical then move then so I can dig it over, the hens then start eating anything they can find, the lawn, the plants, anything really
I use a seperator in between each panel and seed it with poultry grass every few weeks, then move the seperator along as the grass grows
I used to keep cockitiels, the died or escaped, so I converted that to a hen house, I have a perspex panel which I put up in the winter, it has dowl for them to roost on (1inch dia) set at different levels, a double box for laying (the eggs roll away so they dont eat or peck them
I have a board to make it easy for them to get in and out
Call it the hen house, rather than the avciary, is about 10 feet long and in the winter they spend a lot of time in there, there is plenty of room, in the summer I wash and disinfect it, but in the winter, just sweep it out, if I wash it out it would still be wet when they go in and probably freeze
When I go out to them, they are either on the dowl or just pecking at the floor, they really dont like this weather
In the mornings I do a bowl of hot boiled rice for them (I dont know if the appreciate it) any scraps we give them is warmed up, sometimes I'll boil up a couple of spuds and mash them for them
I dont know what else to give them, warm, I can only assume they enjoy my efforts, they havent complained
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I'll throw a bit of corn in the run to give them something to peck at