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Yay! The chicken i was allowed to name, Tikka Masala, was the first to lay an egg. We get to have the world's tiniest omelette tomorrow!

I actually think the place i got it from uses a plasma cutter. https://www.etsy.com/shop/RestorationSteel. I would highly recommend them. Karin was awesome to work with.

I had a metal sign made for my wife, daughter and now 8 female pets. And one more of the chicken swing.

My pleasure. Good luck on the build! Be sure to ask any questions you come up with. The folks in here know what they are talking about.

Thanks! I found some excellent tutorial videos from a website called MasterSketchUp.com that do a great job of teaching you the basics and then building on them. They definitely helped.

I mentioned in another post how i found this program called SketchUp that allows you to easily design and model projects (it's free too!). So i used it, along with my coop plans from the program i used to use and modeled my coop build. Every board, every piece of HW cloth, siding and roofing...

We're not 100% sure. We think she was "hiding" it for a couple of days before we actually really noticed she was acting differently and eventually saw the wound. Our best guess is this: We've had the brooder in the garage, and since my wife works from home, she would go out there every day and...

Quick update. The chickens are in the coop (finally!). Well, almost all of them are. Our Buff Orp cut herself pretty badly in the belly up by the inside of the leg. It looks like she cut open an intestine and was going septic. We tried our best to help her heal, but in the end we did the humane...

Nope. I was going to, but we decided we like the look of it as is. Kinda "natural" with just a little white. Plus, it doesn't "pop" from the road this way, so less likely someone from the town would notice it driving by and give me grief about permits or whatnot. I've done everything per the...

I like the way you think Aart. Go big or go home!

Hmmm....might be smart to design a quarantine coop, or perhaps a smaller second coop for next year, when chicken-math will almost assuredly raise it's head. :-)

Brotha, i thought i had some skill until i watched you work. I am proud of mine... but i am in awe of yours!

I did the trim this morning on the coop and the storage box. This time i really cant thing of anything left to do on this project.

Thanks! I am starting to discover that i may have addiction and adding to the coop may never end. Today i did the rocks around the storage container and also added a mini-ramp leading to the roost for our "runt" chicken, coincidentally named "Minnie".

I decided i didn't want to haul feed, PDZ, tools, etc... from the house to the coop whenever i needed to refill or replace something, so i built a "matching" storage container out by the coop. The galvanized water tank we are using as a brooder will fit inside it. Inside of that will be...

Just a few minor updates. Not sure if this would be considered coop updates or run updates, so i posted in both (hope that's okay). So inside the coop i added about 4 inches of sand. I am pretty sure the chickens will appreciate the time and effort i put into leveling it and creating a feng...

Just looking at the picture, i know the nesting box has a length of exactly 3 ft, so at this resolution (about 12%), it looks like 7 squares is 3 ft....so 2-1/3 squares is a foot. At 100%, more squares inside the squares show up and every square is one half inch. When i want a quarter inch, i...

No no no, don't get me wrong. Each drawing was down the the 1/8th of an inch. I just meant that you just have to be on the app to see it. The design process is my favorite part as i am very meticulous and love to test things out on paper before building them. My undergrad degree is in...

Last one for today, i promise. I build it, and the wife (with the help of Pintrest) decorates it.

Thee app i use for this stuff (free one... called Dia) is actually for doing process diagrams i think, but it works well enough for me. Unfortunately, the squares represent different measurements the more or less you zoom out. If it helps, the base is 70"x70". I had each section on a...