Add one nesting box for every four hens. Stoltzfus recommends building chicken coops close enough to the house “that you can see the coop from your windows to make sure that your chickens are ...

Sprinkling herbs in your nesting boxes doesn't just beautify them ... hung a matching curtain over the door from the coop out to the chicken run. "It helps to keep the drafts out in the winter.

In his second instalment of all things chicken keeping, our columnist outlines the dos and don'ts of hen house maintenance.