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I have horizontal waterers for my birds too. Two of my birds were 3 before I went to the horizontal waterer. Even after being used to water dishes, it only took about a day and a half for them to figure them out.

Here are a couple pics I snapped this morning to get a better view of it -- inside and out.

I actually don't have power to my coop......if I did, I probably never would have though of doing this! (It, like yours, should work GREAT during the summer to keep water nice and cool during the hot months)

This is a waterer I built that is similar to vehve's....bit I made this one out of a cooler... I've been "testing" it for a few weeks....we've had some NASTY cold in my area I took a 9qt cooler form WalMart (cost $9) then picked up a couple 2" PVC caps, some horizontal nipple...

I've seen carports converted to run in sheds for ponies, they just add 3 walls and a gate on the front......but they're ALWAYS the ones with the metal roof like this; A carport definitely would be do-able, but I have to agree with Percheron chick, don't use a fabric one, way too easy for...

Back when I had my Jeep I belonged to an online Jeepforum, I loved to work on my jeep but I have NO mechanical ability (or tools) what-so-ever, but I wanted to learn and be able to say I did most of the work myself. I started out by wing-ing and made a lot of mistakes. Then I smartened...

I'm definately not an expert on this, nor do I have a TRUE open-air coop....but I wanted it as open-air as I was comfortable with.... I'm located in upstate NY....we've been dealing with 0F quite frequently and high winds on top of it. (A few days ago we had a HIGH of 6F and it was -14F with...

I have a metal roof over my run as well, one of the best things I did. You can always put a clear roofing panel or two in if you'd like, but you shouldn't need it. You should get quite a bit of residual light. My girls are perfectly happy with the amount of light they're getting, they're not...

Day 6: Build time -- 4.5 hours (half of the time was used to cut the metal roofing) I had an extra set of hands today, my father came out to help me. I went to my parent's for dinner the other night, and we cut the metal roofing there in his driveway (we used a dremel and cutting wheel)...

So....its been a long time since I updated. I've gotten about 5 more "days" of work in. I'll give a quick overview of what I did, and insert the only 3 pics I have...... Day 3: Build time -- 2 hours I framed up my last wall famed up today. I is my South facing wall that has the clean out...

DAY 2: Build Time – about 4 hours I apologize now, unfortunately the handful of photos I took during these stages didn’t save to my phone for some reason (well, 1 did, and it’ll make its appearance in this thread now…I’ll try to get some more pics of the parts when I get home) I knew it was...

DAY 1: Build time -- about 2 hours For the base of my coop, I decided to salvage an old 4x4 I had from when I installed a fence in my yard over the spring. I’m only using it for the corners, so that gives me a coop that will be about 2’ off the ground. From there, I took a scrap piece...