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Sure. I used (3) pieces of 1x6 and I drew 1/3 of the arch on each board. Then I cut out the three and attached them to the door arch. Before painting I used Bondo Auto Body Filler and filled any cracks that showed where the boards met, and I filled all of the screw head holes also. I hope...

I love the design. Someday you have to finish it and create a coop page to show us all how it was built.

Yikes! That's a big egg.

Thanks. I'd like to take the credit, but my fiance picked out the colors. LOL

That was my fiance's idea, but you are correct. She also has a large pottery chimenea out there for the colder evenings.

I finally finished building my coop. It took me 4-weeks. I've been sharing some of the progress with you guys as I went, but I finally created my coop build page. Here are some completed photos. You can see the rest on my build page...

That is a very fine point of view. I do not want my laying hens getting stressed out.

My fiance is interested in getting a rabbit to live in our run with the chickens. Do any of you guys have any experience with this. I would be interested in whatever advice you have. my run is roughly 5 feet wide by 15 feet long and has only 4 chickens.

Super cute!

LOL. Thanks

I may be building my coop completely from new materials but I am a big fan of reusing wood. I have a woodshop where I build household items such as jewelry boxes and picture frames from barn wood, old fence wood, and pallet wood. It always amazes me when I sand down an old piece of wood and...

Thats awesome. I don't think I'm going to go as far as adding solar. I got the remainder of the hardware and paint tonight to finish the job and now I'm about $680 into it. Who knows what I might add in the future though. Only time will tell.

I'm glad to hear that the double shelled baby made it. That was an interesting predicament.

Thank you Whizbdawn.

I'll tell you what, friends..... I'm getting pretty annoyed at this California weather this year. For 3 weeks I have been spending all of my free time trying to get my coop built and ready for my 3 week old chicks . I've had some pretty fantastic weather here during the last couple of weeks...

Proud momma

Yes. They will have my big backyard to debug for me :-)

It is really exciting. To be perfectly honest, I am having a blast building this coop. Yesterday I started building a little flower box to hang under the front window, and today after work I plan to install plexiglass in the window frames I made and possibly get them hung. Some of my friends...

What I meant was that the screen is permanently attached to the lower portion of the door, so that when I open the upper door the screen portion stays closed along with the lower section of the door.

Yes. The lower portion of the door will have a permanent "screen door" attachment that will keep the chickens in when I open the top portion. I spent a good part of the morning working on that door. I'm pretty excited about what I've created so far.