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A good chicken coop should be a safe place for your chickens to relax, lay eggs and roost.

When designing the coop layout, one must consider that at night the chickens will often prefer to roost above floor level and when doing so will defecate and deposit dropping on anything below them. A good roosting system takes this into consideration and makes sure that feed, water and nesting boxes are not directly below the roosts. Roosts should be sturdy and rounded so as to be comfortable when gripped by the chicken as they perch. Each bird will need roughly 14 inches of space and roosts should not be stacked.

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