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Housing
Housing can be as complex or as simple as you like, and can be professionally manufactured or homemade, but there are a few features all coops need:
security from
predators
- mainly foxes, rats and badgers
draught-free
well ventilated
weatherproof
nesting box for laying eggs in
perches
exercise space (normally a run if they're not free-ranging)
Sonning Major chicken house from
Wells Poultry