Polyface Millennium Feathernet MINI - Smaller design for less hens

This is our mobile laying hen structure based off of the Polyface Designs Millenium Feathernet by Joel Salatin. Our structure is modified to 10 feet wide to traverse our land bridge that separates the 2 sides of our farm. This structure will accommodate up to 400 hens, which is plenty for our small 20 acre farm. Hope this helps you in your farming and homesteading journey!

[MelindaNeves-wbei]

Thank you for sharing! This is great and wonderfully appreciated.

[emilycrowell]

I’m always amazed at your designs and ingenuity of the structures you have on your farm! You are doing great things! Praying for you! ❤️

[SuperMrgentleman]

Thought you'd call it the Centennial Feathernet. Nice!

[Nate-]

Great design! I read some of the previous comments and emailed you about the plans if they are still available. Thanks!

[rogerfranks]

Very helpful explanation of the Why of efficient equipment!

[kevinholbrook]

WOW! I love your design of the Ark! I would love to have your blueprints for the Ark. I hope that you have a video on building one if not you should do one for us because your design is amazing!

[jasonhatfield]

I wonder how hard it would be to cover the interior with hardware cloth or 1x1 or 1x2 wire netting for predator protection? It would require the addition of a door on both ends for hens and people, but otherwise could work. I would use a solar door for the chicken side door. Hmmm....

[bns]

Aloha, Stone Pillar farm. I'm so happy that I found this video. That's exactly what I want to build. I have 12 to 13 foot gates and I think that would be able to make it through. Please I would love to buy the plans from you. Please let me know Mahalo. From the Big Island of Hawaii Brandon 😁🤙

[DWilkism]

Hey man, i love your design. May i have a copy of this structure. Im starting a homestead in Oklahoma and would love to build this out.

[lynnnavrkal]

Thank you for sharing this video. Would you mind sharing your plans with me?

[jeremiahmostrom]

This design is great! I have the Polyface Designs book and was trying to figure out how to make it smaller. Would you mind sending me the plans you came up with?

[ray]

Really cool design. Approximately how many sq ft of pasture do they stay in on any given day? & how often do you move them?

[JonSkelley]

This is really awesome. Great design modification. I'm looking to do something similar since I dont need one that is as large as the Polyface one. Curious if you used 2x6 like the original design or if you scaled down to 2x4s? I also need to come up with a do this with wheels or something. I'm in SC and the ground is so soft that I think dragging this around would destroy it. I know it opens up the possibility of running over a chicken, but I dont see another way that wont gouge the pasture.

[happyfeetacres]

I am thinking of doing the same thing but I’ve got to modify it a bit to make it a bit smaller width wise and I’ve to covered it at the sides due to raccoons and fox.. where do you buy the skid? Can I find it at Lowes?

[DP-wqdy]

I love this design but I am concerned about the cold, where are you located?? We are in South Eastern PA. Zone 7a

[redslippersaloon]

Curious what your thought would be on a scaled down version of this, with the nest box facing the end, so no need to walk up inside..? If you had sufficient overhang to protect from weather?

[jasonhatfield]

I love this design. Unfortunately, in our area, I don't think we'd be able to get away with an open structure like this. Our predator pressure is much too high. We have so many coyotes, fox, mink, racoons, etc concentrated on our property that I'm certain this wouldn't work. We're located in an area that is completely surrounded by suburbs and we're the only farm with open land near by. That's why there's so many predators here. It's the only spot they have to live.

[kaicarlson]

Do you have any plans or measurements for the modifications you made. This is the size I was thinking of building and was wondering if can share the mods you’ve made. Cheer

[matehajdar]

What happens to the chickens if a storm comes and blows right through the structure?

[joshua]

I was thinking of something similar for 100 hens on probably 3 acres (we have a total of 5ac). Have you ran into any issues? Predation?