This is giving me a lot of ideas to entertain mine. This weekend, I’m getting them a toy xylophone so they can have chicken music for chicken concerts ...... or not.......well, maybe for me to listen. I love watching mine play and interact with each other and me. I have a large tree near their run with a lawn chair and little table for my ice tea.

One of the nicest runs I've ever seen. Love the safety aspects from predators and the natural things to keep them amused. lovely. Well done, thanks for sharing.

I love your chicken run. All the perches and swings. I am building our coop and run and glad I found your video for information on the contractor sand to use on the floor.

That is an excellent idea to have herb boxes around the perimeter of the run. Very clever!

Excellent run for the ladies.

Love How Well You Take Care Of This Coop! Very Nice!

I love your chicken run. I think I eant to build one like it. I love all the fun ideas you incorporated in it to keep them active. Thank you for sharing!!!

Nice coop good looking chickens

One of the nicest runs I’ve seen! Thank you! Picked up lots of good ideas from this.

I never thought of putting hardware cloth on my cleaning fork, it is actualy a muck rake for horses but I needed something for sifting the pine shavings, but your idea of a hardware cloth on it is a good idea, will be trying it. that run is really nice, if I was going to make my chickens live in the run with very little if any free range I would of made it three times bigger, that way they get lots of movement. still very nice.

Nice coops and good gave me ideas to build my coop next time, TQ

What an awesome home for your chickens! I would LOVE to have something like that for my quail! BTW, meal worms are VERY easy to propagate and not messy. Also, and this is just my theory, but it seems the worms have more nutrients if they are still alive (fresh). My quail go nuts for both the worms and the little beetles that they turn into. All I do is put some turkey starter (good source of protein), powdered egg shell (for calcium), oat meal, and/or dog food in a bucket with a lid, put it in a warm place (75°-85°F is best) and let nature take its course. I will also throw in raw potato for moisture but that can cause mold. I've actually discovered by accident that they will thrive without any moisture at all and only wood to eat when I left some meal worms in a terrarium in my classroom over the summer and returned to find it swarming with worms and beetles. You could even raise them right in the coop in the warmer months, if you are in a northern climate. I'd love to hear if you try it! :)

Such a beautiful chicken run!!

I have looked at a lot of runs. Yours by far is the best. Loved the logs. It is good for their feet to have different circumference roosting perch Really great job.

Great tour! Very tidy and organized and lots of fun chicken activities! Good inspiration for my future build.

I really like this chicken run, gave me a few fun ideas!

Love the hanging corn cob!

Very beautiful chicken coop everything looks organized👌

Looks like a really fun place for your ladies!

Thank you for the tour! I love your run and plan on incorporating some of your features in mine!

Great setup!🤩👍🏻

You did a good job you and your husband

i love chickens and u have been a great inspiration ! very good ideas ... I'm in an urban area so this helps

Your chicken coop looks awesome in Vermont is beautiful I’m here stuck in California in a heavily Residential area looking to start a chicken coop for about 45 chickens I will be approximately 3 feet wide 8 feet long and about 8 feet tall with the run attached to it of 3’ x 15’ it will be 3 feet tall love your chicken coop in Vermont definitely beautiful

I’d love to see inside the barn, and your coop in there too. Maybe you have a video on that I will go look but if not, please 🙏

What a nice run. You do awesome work.

Nice looking run, thanks for sharing!

What a nice run! Showing creative mind! I got a lots of ideas from your video😍 I wanna see your nesting box too! Plz if its possible for you.

I would love to see inside your nesting coop ,really well done thank you. Debi from Montreal Canada

Very nice run 👍

I love when chicken can run free🦋

This is great!

I love all the creative ideas for perches and swings in your run, it must keep the birds really happy. What is the size of this run and how many chickens can you keep in this size run?

Nice setup

That run is nicer than most people's screen porch. Lol

Excellent Melissa

Perhaps an electric portable fence would be a good option so they can get out and forage when you are home? Might be a great option to get the horse out more to graze and keep from being bored. I like your run because it looks easy to winterize by throwing up some greenhouse plastic around the outside. Great use of your space.

Great Video! Thank you for sharing your beautiful run. How long have you been using the sand material in your run? Do you ever have to change the sand all out?

Beautiful

Very nice!

Hi Melissa, what kind of fasteners did you use to attach the hardware cloth to the wood framing? Thanks!

Very nice to se that you activate your chickens. Maybe you could do a little more about the environment in you run. But nice so fare👍🏻👍🏻

What an amazing and entertaining house What do you have as flooring materials, sand??

I love your coop!!!! New subscriber

Lucky chickens.

You did a great a job, it looks very stimulating for the birds, how often, if you have, do you move it around? 6:35 I have been looking for a plastic trough, can you tell me where you don’t the one you have?

A big dog will deter raccoons and fox. Great chicken run.

Does the poop bucket not draw flys?? 😎absolutely beautiful run!

Very nice coop

Wowww Luxury coop ever I seen 👌👌👌

Hello. I would love an update on your run. I loved this video and got so many ideas. Thanks for sharing. Oh and the contractor sand, where do you normally buy it?

Lovely video! Is the corn cooked or raw?

nice job

New chicken mom here- I was going to use wood chips for the run but I love the look of sand and how well it would drain. Do you ever have to completely change out the sand or just add more? If so, how often?

I use contractor sand also , but mine is not quite as coarse as yours. I am concerned about bumblefoot. I would enjoy your thoughts on the matter.

Where did you get the rooster inset on the coop run door? I love it! Very pretty!

Like the design! Do you have any info on how you built the lower walls?

I'm in VT too! This is my first year with chickens, and I am wondering about how that waterer stands up to our freezing temps. How do you manage their water in the Winter time?

Love this run!! Where did you get the red decoration hanging on your run door?

Great Job, I wish I could have chickens again.I live in Orlando Fl and the county told me I couldn't have them. and I had to give them up.:(

Also, I am confuse about the little door for them to get in and out! Is the automatic door expensive?

I love your set up. Are you going to do a video of the coop area?

Absolutley the best out there! WOW! How about a view inside?

Very Nice.....

great coop! thanks for sharing! is that an electric fence outside the coop? i’ve been told to add that to my coop for bears and coyotes....i’m researching that now

Well Done!

May have missed it or it's another video. Where do they lay eggs.

Great chicken coop! I would like to feature it on my website if that is okay with you?

I’m am planning to add sand on the run floor, do you think it’s good?

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oops.... it was my computer mostly. thanks for your comment

Hello. I have hardware cloth everywhere , even on the roof. Is that bad? First time doing this. Please help.

Looks great. Question: I am finishing up my run (1st time chicky mom) and am wondering... where do you buy the construction sand? All I have seen is the quik crete brand or did you use some other brand?

Hens only ,we made a mistake having a rooster and his breeding frequency distress and destroyed the feathers and lead to feather picking

Beautiful run! What are the dimensions? Thanks

Do your chickens ever try to escape when you walk in? Are they easy to catch if they get out?

I used sand but my chicken was eating in and got chicken crop I think from the sand

Why is your horse stuck in the barn? Do you let her/him out to ride and brush?

What automatic chicken door did you buy?

I don’t blame you

Did u make the feed bucket urself?

When do you clean your box

Where is the nest box situated

what sand brand would you recommend?

Can you post a link for the bucket feeders?? My girls waste so much I can barely afford to feed them!!

cannot hear ! but enjoyed your video. What is on the ground?

Is that one piece of hardware cloth in your front two big sections (to the left and right of the door)? I can only find it in 3 ft wide strips and those two section look a lot wider than 3 feet. Thanks!

Would you share how it was constructed? Did you use 4x4 corner posts? Did you burry them? I live in NH and there are plenty of predators here too. I am confused as to go about building a run like this.

What are your dimensions and how many chickens?

I’m a new chicken mom. How did you hand the corn cob?

Hahaha chickens dont sit on swings

Dus the wearer frozen yes or no

Very nice run👍