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That's cool. I live in Albuquerque and it's pretty temperate here so I'll consider myself lucky - that being said when and if I ever get my land i will definitely be building a better, larger coop more similar to yours - I would like to have closer to 100 chickens at any given time on my land...

If his chickens are living exclusively in the coop it's way too small, but if they are only sleeping in there it's plenty large, assuming there's ventilation. You've seen my coop, it's 4x8 for 9 birds right now but there were 15 in there at the start and they were comfy then. The 4 sq ft per...

You can add conventional windows, or leave space at the eaves for ventilation when you install the roof. I like conventional windows because they are easy to install and maintain and discourage flies/etc from making their way in. You can cover them with hardware cloth for predator resistance...

Here are the pictures. I never was able to finish the roof due to some unforeseen circumstances... But this summer I will. It never leaked though! It's been great. Perfect for this number of birds, maybe even more (they only sleep there).

Soon. I wonder can I still write an article about it?

Hello to all who are following this coop build. It's been a year that the chickens have been sleeping here and what a great year for chicken coops it's been! The fold-out function of varying sides of the coop has proved quite valuable, though I never have had a reason to fold out the long sides...

Here's a view of the function of the house with the removable roof visible. I put on the tarpaper today and tomorrow is roll roofing. Very happy with how it's come out. Need to make a better roost though haha.

Table saw makes it easy! Harbor Freight, my friend :)

I'm a nut and I sort through the piles for 2x2s that are as close to perfect as possible. Also, if you buy ones that look good and are tied in the bundle still, and you leave them like that, that can work very well.

I didn't think of that hahahahaa

The latches are under considerable tension, and I have to push the whole wall in to undo them. The safety hasps are there as backup as well - I haven't heard about or seen racoons here but i can put locks on two of the four safety hasps and the walls will not be able to be opened without...

So the chickens slept in their coop last night for the first time and they seem to like it, even though I haven't completed everything I said I would! It's been rainy here and I got some sewing commissions (that's my little home business), so I wasn't able to work on the roof again today...

I'm thinking once I expand my flock and move to my land, I'll use this thingy as a brooder. It's a good size to house a batch of 20 or so chicks until they're ready for the outdoors, and if I make 2 runs that can communicate it would be cool for introducing chicks to chickens

These are turn latch hasps (i keep calling them hinges, my bad haha), they also call them safety hasps, but yeah they aren't cutting it.

Here are some pictures

They are turn-latch hinges - I had wanted eyebolts and hooks, but my husband suggested these and I was like ok.... But they have wiggle. So the eyebolts are going on anyway haha! It was a good idea but i didn't think about the 1/2 of play until they were on there!

Why do I do these things at night

Yeah I suppose I neglected to mention... Here I dont really have much in the way of dirt - there's a little but it's primarily sand! So, free sand. But sand and the pretty extreme dryness don't really support worms or anything like that. I envy u guys that can attract the right kind of bugs with...

I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but this being the first time I even hear of PDZ I'd like to know if the chickens will ingest it and could it be toxic to them?

Boy howdy am I out of touch :oops: Learn something new every day haha. I will note that arsenic isn't used anymore! Since the treated stuff still looks green it never crossed my mind that they would have stopped using it.