chicken pen

The idea is (Like CircleC has done) to make it from matls you can find or forage, I seen some nice ones built out of shipping pallets and so on, I made mine out of shipping containers the company I work for was throwing out, so I just bought wire and I made my laying boxes out of $5 homedepot buckets---

I like my hens to forage, BUT I like them to lay eggs in the coop and I dont like to see them get killed by coons or cats after waiting for them to lay so I tend to watch over the ladies, they are put up at night---- if you get them killed then it kinda defies the purpose of saving money in eggs and meat when ya have to constantly replace them because they get ate---