1) - The rooster's sleeping third. This is a very small room, currently unoccupied. When we have more than one rooster, or, when I'm done fixing it up - It will be where all our roosters can sleep and seek sanctuary.
2) - The tack/supply room. Where we keep our feed, supplies, and baby chicks to raise during their first months.
3) - The hen house. This is a good sized room with two doors, one north and one south, that will allow the hens to look out south to the rest of the property and also to the sun, and run off north to their multi-acre pasture. Inside is a simple, open room with large perches about five and a half feet above ground made out of the timber we cut from our forest. The rest of the room is full of nesting boxes and just. . . room.
Then, there's the breeding pen, a large open area filled with cut up tree bits and stumps to perch on, and plenty other space to put selected roosters and hens in for breeding projects. After that is the Rooster pen, where the bachelors can stay during their day. This way, they can interact with hens but not bother them. Last and certainly not least is the main pasture - a Multi-acre field that wraps from the "East Pasture" around the back to "West Corner." It was a forest until September 2009, and now is a growing field of grass, weeds, stumps, tree bows, and other random bits left from logging.
All of this is penned up with a four foot field fence, lined on the bottom with chicken wire, and lined over the top with white-tape electric wire.
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