I absolutely love this layout....it is fantastic and very versatile. But by far the best part is when going through detailing everything so precisely she say "Also they will be shitting in the beds....." 😂🤣😂
I had the idea of fencing in an orchard and letting chickens in to wander around and do their thing. But this plan is EXPONENTIALLY better!! Love, love, LOVE this!
This gives me so many ideas! Thank you for sharing this with us. I like the large wire panels you’ve hung in place of hardware cloth in the large spaces and the way you are protecting most of the young trees, shrubs. It looks very sturdy and efficient. Lots of shade and light for the girls, protection from hawks, and smart ways you can block off areas…just perfect. Espalier training of your fruit trees was a great idea. Happy to hear you rescue chicks too.
thank you so much for the kind words!! so glad it's given you ideas. it's now 10 years old and absolutely no problems, all going exactly as I had imagined :) xx
Wow, amazing set up and tour! We’ve recently bought a house with a chicken palace (no where near as big as chicken city) and we’re thinking of putting some dwarf fruit trees and berries in for shade and interest. This has spurred me on that is the right way to go. Now in rethinking our veggie garden set up 🤣 Look forward to watching your back catalogue of videos and checking out the podcast. Kath & Kim absolutely perfect Aussie names! Have a great weekend!
thanks so much for the message, so glad you like the set up!! it really does work so well. I hope you've had fun incorporating aspects into your own chicken palace!
Wow what an awesome garden you have created 😍 I know absolutely nothing about gardening but am about to embark on a garden journey and start a small veggie patch 😊👍🏽 I’m now going to spend the day binge watching your videos 🤣💕👍🏽
thank you so much for your comment ! i am so glad you enjoyed the video. I've also got a beginner gardening podcast you might enjoy - easy tips for beginner gardners! here's the link (but its available on apple and all other podcast provider) open.spotify.com/show/1PknMw8ncxaZbnRuoeanqI?si=4a7b9909aa09437d
Such a genius setup! You have taken so many things into consideration. I am inspired and will take some pointers for mine. I appreciate you sharing this, have a good day!
This is absolutely genius! Hubby and I just purchased land ( 2 weeks til settlement 🎉). Going from suburbia to rural nsw acreage, where we have kangaroos rabbits wombats and possibly goannas ! I’ve been stressing about keeping my girls and food safe! So glad I found you!!!!
We are preparing to build a similar space. I wonder now that you've been using this system for awhile - if you were to do it again, would you change anything and if so, what would that be? Thanks for sharing your beautiful space.
great question! and one I get asked a lot. If I could change anything, I would put the berry room in the position that gets the least winter sun, and put the second veggie room in it's place. I didn't give the winter sun enough consideration, especially as the berry canes are completely dormant over winter! Other than that, nothing to change... I spent years designing and refining it before I built, and I think it paid dividends :) good luck with yours!! xx
That is the best idea I have ever seen - usually they have the coop and run separate from the garden, and it also protects the plants too. I have many night visitors like possums and other animals foraging around at night and they eat young plants which is really annoying when you are trying to get them to grow. Also, the chicks need protection from everything too. So Wonderful.
This is amazing! I love systems that work this well. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to steal this idea. It's my only hope against the Florida squirrels
This is wonderful! I'm looking for a house in the country, and have been thinking about doing something like this, except the rooms (and a corridor). In each room the chickens would spend a year, followed by heavy feeding annual crops for a year, followed by less hungry annual cross the next year, until the chickens returned to feed the soil.
Such an inspiration video, i’m looking at doing similar (smaller scale due to space) so this video was so detailed and love the experience you have. I do have a question, what solar panel are you using and is it hooked up to a battery ? I’m looking at using chicken roof space for solar panels to run back to the house to charge phone and ipad from 👍 xx
yep its hooked up to a battery! i honestly have no idea what it is as i put it in so many years ago. its not perfect but its done a pretty good job! havent ever used it for running anything other than the watering system, so dont know how much power its really got! sorry i cant be more helpful on that topic. thrilled that you got inspiration and advice from the video - that makes me so happy!! thanks for letting me know, and good luck with your own set up :) xx
Ummm. GOALS. This is amazing. Well done. Glad I came across your channel. I'll be a subscriber and probably binge your content today as it's going over 100F heat index here in Oklahoma.
some years yes its been a real problem, some years no problem at all. but overall I would say it is an ongoing concern, I havent quite found the solution (and maybe there isnt one). but the feeders i use the mice 100% can't get into so that really helps! it's more the produce im growing they're interested in xx
great set up. In annual garden nu 2 you have sweet peas and rhubarb. Is there a problem with these plants being poisonous for chickens and how do you deal with this? Thank you
good question!! i've found the chickens never eat things that are poisonous for them, they never eat the leaves of the tomatoes or potatoes for example. I've come to trust that over the years, but when I first got them I wouldn't even test it out with them. I think to be honest i wouldn't grow the sweet peas again, not worth the risk, but the other edibles I'll keep doing. I do monitor it daily, if i came in and they'd started munching on something i'd notice. but so far so good! x
So, it is alright to plant immediately after the chickens are done fertilizing? I am working on a similar setup, but I thought I would need to let the manure age a few months or something. Just a wonderful garden you've made.
I've never worried about it and never had a problem! the majority of fertiliser goes on the garden beds in the form of the chicken bedding (poo + straw) so this has already had a bit of aging "in situ" if that makes sense. Thank you for your kind words! I love it :)
thank you!! there is a second video going into more detail, and here's a blog post on the initial set up: www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details
@@alycealexandra thank you for that post. You’ve got our wheels turning over here at my house. Appreciate the inspiration! Also love the metal doors. We’re they custom?
Ive never had guinea fowls but my guess is they'd want more space than what each room provides, good news is though they couldn't fly away once they're in the cage! but honestly I don't know enough about their needs, sorry! xx
very perceptive! yes they are toxic, howver I've never had an issue with the chickens eating the leaves... they seem to be very in tune with what they can eat and what they cant. I leave the plants in there for a bit so they can eat off all the remaining tomatoes, and then I pull them out :)
I have wire around the roots so they cant get right to the base, but i find the roots further out are fine, they occasionally scratch one up and i usually put a brick over it to stop them making the hole even bigger :) x
Would it be possible to see a clip of your garden before the chickens get in. Then, a few pictures of what it looks like after the chickens have finished taking the vegetation down. Thanks
very good suggestion! I will definitely do some before and afters. i do post a lot more informal stuff on my instagram, that might be of interest :) instagram.com/alycesediblegarden/
So do you keep your nightshade plants in a separate area ? Or do chickens know not to eat them ? This is great idea and just what I am trying to formulate
Ive found they just dont touch the nightshade leaves such as tomato and potato so never really had an issue.. .that's the only two i really grow from that family. Ive found the chickens to actually be very good at knowing what to eat and what to not! Never had a problem (my goat on the other hand, not so good!) xx
it was a thinner wine that was rolled up, and we unrolled it accorss the top and nailed it into the frame using u nails... then got little bits of wire and used them to attach the long 'sheets' of wire together... does that make sense? its pretty flimsy wire on the top, not like the of the enclosure!
@@alycealexandra it does make sense. I love LOVE your coop so I have made more of a Chicken Shanty (due to space) instead of a city but have enclosed it and incorporated plants too.
sorry i did change websites earlier in the year and it was a bit glitchy there for a while ! but the plans are up now : www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details hope this helps, sorry or the delay! x
some years yes, some years no. it is an ongoing problem honestly, havent quite found the solution. but the feeders i use the mice 100% can't get into so that really helps!
OMG of all the likely hundreds of Coop setups i have watches this one truly takes the gold medal by far, amazing!
thank you!!! I really love it. Hope you've taken something from it too!
Truth❤
I absolutely love this layout....it is fantastic and very versatile. But by far the best part is when going through detailing everything so precisely she say "Also they will be shitting in the beds....." 😂🤣😂
haahah I am very glad you appreciate my frank language!! hah xx
I had the idea of fencing in an orchard and letting chickens in to wander around and do their thing. But this plan is EXPONENTIALLY better!! Love, love, LOVE this!
thank you so much, I am so glad you enjoyed it!! it really does work so well!
This gives me so many ideas! Thank you for sharing this with us. I like the large wire panels you’ve hung in place of hardware cloth in the large spaces and the way you are protecting most of the young trees, shrubs. It looks very sturdy and efficient. Lots of shade and light for the girls, protection from hawks, and smart ways you can block off areas…just perfect. Espalier training of your fruit trees was a great idea. Happy to hear you rescue chicks too.
thank you so much for the kind words!! so glad it's given you ideas. it's now 10 years old and absolutely no problems, all going exactly as I had imagined :) xx
One of the most of organized and articulated garden & coop I've ever seen. Mad respect!
thank you!! really appreciate the feedback! xx
Wow, amazing set up and tour! We’ve recently bought a house with a chicken palace (no where near as big as chicken city) and we’re thinking of putting some dwarf fruit trees and berries in for shade and interest. This has spurred me on that is the right way to go. Now in rethinking our veggie garden set up 🤣
Look forward to watching your back catalogue of videos and checking out the podcast. Kath & Kim absolutely perfect Aussie names! Have a great weekend!
thanks so much for the message, so glad you like the set up!! it really does work so well. I hope you've had fun incorporating aspects into your own chicken palace!
This is the best set up I have ever seen . makes so much sense . Well done ! Thanks for sharing.
thank you Sharon! I'm so glad you enjoyed :) xx
I'm crushed. I thought I had a great coop setup. Now I've got to break it to my wife were improving the coop. Again!
hahah best feedback ever. hope that coop improvement has come along well! xx
Wow what an awesome garden you have created 😍
I know absolutely nothing about gardening but am about to embark on a garden journey and start a small veggie patch 😊👍🏽
I’m now going to spend the day binge watching your videos 🤣💕👍🏽
thank you so much for your comment ! i am so glad you enjoyed the video. I've also got a beginner gardening podcast you might enjoy - easy tips for beginner gardners! here's the link (but its available on apple and all other podcast provider) open.spotify.com/show/1PknMw8ncxaZbnRuoeanqI?si=4a7b9909aa09437d
Definitely the best garden/ Chicken coop I have ever seen. Absolutely beautiful 😊
thank you!! xox
Such a genius setup! You have taken so many things into consideration. I am inspired and will take some pointers for mine. I appreciate you sharing this, have a good day!
thank you so much for the lovely feedback!! xx
Briliantly thought through and executed.
thank you!!
Wow, what a beautiful place you have created❣️ Everything working together in harmony!
thank you!! Exactly, I love it :)
This is absolutely genius! Hubby and I just purchased land ( 2 weeks til settlement 🎉). Going from suburbia to rural nsw acreage, where we have kangaroos rabbits wombats and possibly goannas ! I’ve been stressing about keeping my girls and food safe! So glad I found you!!!!
oh im so glad!! hope it's going great on the new property! you might want to check out my instagram too :) instagram.com/alycesediblegarden
Make sure the coop is python proof. I lost lots of chooks to them when i was a kid in rural nsw. They help keep other snakes away though
Nice to see a over head view sketch of your grid. I love this!
if you're still interested here's a link! www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details xx
best chicken set up ever
aww thank you!! glad you enjoyed the video! x
Brilliant idea working smart not
hard, excellent!
thank you Patricia!! xo
I have a similar set up but nothing so grand. This is well planned and well executed!
thank you!! it does work amazingly :)
We are preparing to build a similar space. I wonder now that you've been using this system for awhile - if you were to do it again, would you change anything and if so, what would that be? Thanks for sharing your beautiful space.
great question! and one I get asked a lot. If I could change anything, I would put the berry room in the position that gets the least winter sun, and put the second veggie room in it's place. I didn't give the winter sun enough consideration, especially as the berry canes are completely dormant over winter! Other than that, nothing to change... I spent years designing and refining it before I built, and I think it paid dividends :) good luck with yours!! xx
Inspirational! Thanks for the tour.
thank you!!
That is the best idea I have ever seen - usually they have the coop and run separate from the garden, and it also protects the plants too. I have many night visitors like possums and other animals foraging around at night and they eat young plants which is really annoying when you are trying to get them to grow. Also, the chicks need protection from everything too. So Wonderful.
thank you!! Im so glad you love it like I do - it really does work so well :) x
best set up ever
Wonderful and thoughtful chicken City! Thanks for sharing ❤
my pleasure, i am so glad you enjoyed it!! xx
Wonderful to see how you did this. The chickens are wonderful helping with weeding.
thank you!! im so glad you enjoyed :) the chickens are amazing!
This is amazing! I love systems that work this well. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to steal this idea. It's my only hope against the Florida squirrels
Go for it, please do steal it. That's why I wanted to share!! Good luck with the squirrels Melissa! xx
wow! this is the model i was looking for. thanks for sharing 🦃🐔🐓🌳🌱
my pleasure, so glad you enjoyed it!!
wow nice! you should do a full vid on raising alapacas
thank you for the suggestion!!
Omg…you’re garden and that you thought about your chickens is absolutely THE best.
thank you so much!! i really appreciate the comment :) x x
Absolutely loved this video would love more content on the chickens
thank you!! i am inspired to keep them coming again this spring x
Wow...that is glorious. What a haven!
thank you!!
Best coop ever! Love it!
thank you!!!
I intend on using this as a foundation to plan my own custom garden. thanks for sharing this!
dishwasher! x
Inspiring, realy! Thanks for posting this video.
thank you for the comment, much appreciated!! glad you enjoyed :) xx
This is wonderful! I'm looking for a house in the country, and have been thinking about doing something like this, except the rooms (and a corridor). In each room the chickens would spend a year, followed by heavy feeding annual crops for a year, followed by less hungry annual cross the next year, until the chickens returned to feed the soil.
love it!! xx
Now I have to further pimp my coop, thanks 😂
Amazing coop mate, amazing.
That is genius! Nice setup.
thank you Bruce!!
Beautiful coop
thank you!!
What a fun video! Thank you 🙂
thank you!!! x
Very nice set up
So glad you like it!! alyce xx
wow, it really a next level chicken coop
the gold standard! haha
Such an inspiration video, i’m looking at doing similar (smaller scale due to space) so this video was so detailed and love the experience you have. I do have a question, what solar panel are you using and is it hooked up to a battery ?
I’m looking at using chicken roof space for solar panels to run back to the house to charge phone and ipad from 👍 xx
yep its hooked up to a battery! i honestly have no idea what it is as i put it in so many years ago. its not perfect but its done a pretty good job! havent ever used it for running anything other than the watering system, so dont know how much power its really got! sorry i cant be more helpful on that topic. thrilled that you got inspiration and advice from the video - that makes me so happy!! thanks for letting me know, and good luck with your own set up :) xx
Ummm. GOALS. This is amazing. Well done. Glad I came across your channel. I'll be a subscriber and probably binge your content today as it's going over 100F heat index here in Oklahoma.
thank you so much! I am really committed to making more chicken city content - there are so many people from all around the world that love it!
Thank you for sharing nice video, love to see greenery and the way you film it. Thank you and stay blessed 😊😊😊
thank you so much for the kind feedback! xo
So impressive! ❤
thank you!!
Love this!! I’m curious if you experience any rodents that get into the run & coop? Lots of food source…
some years yes its been a real problem, some years no problem at all. but overall I would say it is an ongoing concern, I havent quite found the solution (and maybe there isnt one). but the feeders i use the mice 100% can't get into so that really helps! it's more the produce im growing they're interested in xx
great set up. In annual garden nu 2 you have sweet peas and rhubarb. Is there a problem with these plants being poisonous for chickens and how do you deal with this? Thank you
good question!! i've found the chickens never eat things that are poisonous for them, they never eat the leaves of the tomatoes or potatoes for example. I've come to trust that over the years, but when I first got them I wouldn't even test it out with them. I think to be honest i wouldn't grow the sweet peas again, not worth the risk, but the other edibles I'll keep doing. I do monitor it daily, if i came in and they'd started munching on something i'd notice. but so far so good! x
What an awesome set up love it
thanks so much ! xx
do you get good bugs in your rooms.....and pollinators like bees and butterflies? I would like to see the floor plan on the build.
yes, no problem for them all to get in through the mesh! Here's the floor plan: www.alycealexandra.com/thermomix/chicken-city-the-details
Amazing !!!
thank you!!
So, it is alright to plant immediately after the chickens are done fertilizing? I am working on a similar setup, but I thought I would need to let the manure age a few months or something. Just a wonderful garden you've made.
I've never worried about it and never had a problem! the majority of fertiliser goes on the garden beds in the form of the chicken bedding (poo + straw) so this has already had a bit of aging "in situ" if that makes sense. Thank you for your kind words! I love it :)
@@alycealexandra Good to know - thanks. You've given me ideas bouncing around in my head.
Wow! Amazing work!
thanks so much !
I’m going look - do you have a video on the initial setup
This is wonderful
thank you!! there is a second video going into more detail, and here's a blog post on the initial set up: www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details
Can you explain a little about the building of this marvel? What size are these rooms? What material are used etc…
this blog post of mine has some really handy information! www.alycealexandra.com/thermomix/chicken-city-the-details
@@alycealexandra thank you for that post. You’ve got our wheels turning over here at my house. Appreciate the inspiration! Also love the metal doors. We’re they custom?
Great set up! Wife and I will try to replicate in Az, USA
I'm in Prescott AZ. I'd love to do this as well!
yay!! I would love to hear how you go!!
Amazing thank you!
my pleasure, so glad you enjoyed!!
Would you put Guinea fowls in the annual garden?
Ive never had guinea fowls but my guess is they'd want more space than what each room provides, good news is though they couldn't fly away once they're in the cage! but honestly I don't know enough about their needs, sorry! xx
I am going to wish this into existence for myself! Could I ask approx how much it cost to build?
dream big! Honestly I wouldn't know now, it was 9 years ago. But obviously the more you can do yourself the cheaper it would be :)
Excellent coop
Just joined your channel
thank you!! so glad you enjoyed the tour! xx
I noticed you had tomato plants i was told tomato plants or rather any of the night shade family is toxic. Is that true?
very perceptive! yes they are toxic, howver I've never had an issue with the chickens eating the leaves... they seem to be very in tune with what they can eat and what they cant. I leave the plants in there for a bit so they can eat off all the remaining tomatoes, and then I pull them out :)
Im curious if the chickens scratch and damage roots of berries?
I have wire around the roots so they cant get right to the base, but i find the roots further out are fine, they occasionally scratch one up and i usually put a brick over it to stop them making the hole even bigger :) x
More chicken city please.
thanks John, I'm getting that a lot!! Will do more videos now the weather is improving!
Would it be possible to see a clip of your garden before the chickens get in. Then, a few pictures of what it looks like after the chickens have finished taking the vegetation down. Thanks
very good suggestion! I will definitely do some before and afters. i do post a lot more informal stuff on my instagram, that might be of interest :) instagram.com/alycesediblegarden/
❤Awesome 👌 😊
thank you!!
So do you keep your nightshade plants in a separate area ? Or do chickens know not to eat them ?
This is great idea and just what I am trying to formulate
Ive found they just dont touch the nightshade leaves such as tomato and potato so never really had an issue.. .that's the only two i really grow from that family. Ive found the chickens to actually be very good at knowing what to eat and what to not! Never had a problem (my goat on the other hand, not so good!) xx
How did you wire on top of Chicken City?
it was a thinner wine that was rolled up, and we unrolled it accorss the top and nailed it into the frame using u nails... then got little bits of wire and used them to attach the long 'sheets' of wire together... does that make sense? its pretty flimsy wire on the top, not like the of the enclosure!
@@alycealexandra it does make sense. I love LOVE your coop so I have made more of a Chicken Shanty (due to space) instead of a city but have enclosed it and incorporated plants too.
I cant find your floorplan on your site
www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details here is! sorry the link wasn't working for a while x
Are the plans and measurements posted somewhere? I tried your website and the links in the description, but had no luck finding them.
sorry i did change websites earlier in the year and it was a bit glitchy there for a while ! but the plans are up now : www.alycealexandra.com/blogs/free-recipes/chicken-city-the-details hope this helps, sorry or the delay! x
Do you have issues with mice in here
some years yes, some years no. it is an ongoing problem honestly, havent quite found the solution. but the feeders i use the mice 100% can't get into so that really helps!
beautiful
Thank you! 😊
Nice
thankyou!!!
Wow!
thanks!
I wish i had enough money for this much lumber and fencing to build this😅
yes it's not the most economical way to have chickens. hopefully one day for you!
Gives me designs to consider
glad it could be helpful!
W❤W!
thanks! xx
Amazing!
thank you!!