This is the end pen of our brooding house. The brooding house is a 16’ x 8’ hoop house. It has a pair of 2 1/2’ x 6’ pens and a 2 1/2’ x 2’ pen on the right and the same on the left except the 2 1/2’ x 2’ pen is two storeys. The back pen is 6’ x 8’. We use the brooding house for broody hens, hens and chicks, and brooding day old chicks, ducklings, and poults. We have a number of fenced holding yards with 6’ fences. When this picture was taken we had a mixed layer replacement cohort waiting to join our main laying flock. Young turkeys were in the large yard next door and had just started to fly. A Mini White decided to return to the brooding house where it spent its first few weeks.