Roosting Bars

The chickens just hanging out together under the shade. There is a cherry tree behind the chicken coop and this gives a shade on this side of the chicken run. The one in the forefront is a dominant roo and he likes chasing all the girls around although he is only 7 months old. The runt in the group whom we thought to be a female turned out to be another roo and he likes to keep his distance from the dominant roo. Henrietta, the mother hen, likes to keep by herself as well because she is still moulting but the dominant roo still tries to mount her whenever he gets the chance. Henrietta is inside the coop when this pic was taken.   

The dominant roo is facing the steps that leads down to the pop door in the coop. There is a small rain water gutter at the bottom of the steps just before the pop door which prevents the water from getting inside the coop. Where the chickens are sitting on, that's not a roosting bar actually. Those are the top parts of the trees that we cut off and used as posts in the chicken run which is why they are thinner. We tied them together and used them to keep the river sand inside the chicken run. It's just that the chickens likes to sit on these dividers. The low roost is just beside them and they use that too. 

These are the high roosting bars in the chicken run at 5 feet high. They like to use these high roost specially in the early morning. It gives them the space to run to when one of them is being chased. There are two of these high roosting bars and two of the lower roosting bars. The size of the chicken run is only 6 feet wide by 10 feet long which is just right for their number since there are only 6 of them.

The chicken run with the chickens up high on the roosting bars.