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Rsimpson's Chicken Coop

rsimpson
By: rsimpson
Posted 05/29/10 • Last updated 05/29/10 • 2513 views • 1 comment
The Christmas Condo Coop
 
My wife has wanted to raise a few laying chickens for a while now so I'm building her a coop.
 
Since it's a Christmas present for my wife and my cousin says that the chickens have a condo.

It's the "Christmas Condo Coop".
 

 Step 1:

Find a large scrap pile to pick thru for the good stuff.

Step 2:

Get the old flat-bed boat trailer out of the shed and start framing the walls.

Step 3:

Finish framing the wall and the roof.

  

Step 4:

More walls and the roof put on.

  

Step 5:

Insulate floor, roof, walls, and put tin on roof.

  

 Step 6:

Put the window (plexiglass) in and the last wall on with the pop door cutout.

  

 Step 7:

Make a video of your progress and show off to all your Facebook friends.

Step 8:

Redo the back pop door so it's on a sliding track and not hinged.

 Step 9:

Build nestboxes and roosts.

 

  

 Step 10

Put the people door on.


 
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Things I need to do yet are:
  • Build the door.
  • Add more ventilation (mainly in the door).
  • Put linolium tile on floor.
  • Paint
  • Add trim
  • Extend the run out the front.
  • Build covered run out the front.
  • Move the whole coop out to where my wife wants it. 
  • Build run out the back.
So there's not much left to do :-).
 
More to come.
 
Thanks for looking.
 
Randy
 
 

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