For a small number of chickens a portable chicken house works well
Here’s a good video showing you a great portable chicken house. It’s only suitable for a small number of chooks, it won’t work for dozens of chooks, but a small chicken house like this one is fine for 2 or 3 chooks.
The beauty of this type of chicken house is that you can move it around from time to time. Chooks scratch around, and so if you leave your hen house on the same patch of grass all the time it won’t do the grass any good at all.
So move it around every few days and it won’t harm the grass, in fact it will benefit it from all the droppings left behind.
Of course you can always allow your chooks to free range in the garden during the day, just don’t forget to put them back in the hen house at night, and close the door.
There’s foxes everywhere.
