Well, it finally happened, I hatched some chicks and hubby said "we need to build those breeding pens NOW!!!!" So we are
BUT it had to be CHEAP... So Free was best! We have a huge supply of great pallets and that is our foundation for these breeding pens.
The first thing we did was take 10 pallets of the same size and type and made tables basically by adding legs that were 2 ft. We moved them all to the area for the pens and laid them out to be attached to each other in the field.
We added some boards all the way around as a ledger to line up the wall boards and to attach the tables to each other for stability
We had already pulled the pallets apart and had the boards ready to go. We cut 10 boards in half so they were about 18 inch tall (for the pop door area) and another 10 that were cut in half and half the width of the other (see pic) that made the opening about 12 inch.
We had to use a board on the inside to secure these short boards to the coop
so we did that all the way down the front.
Then we added some very thin wood we got at the same place to the coop floors to keep chickens feet from poking through the plastic we added for easy clean up. The wood you see too is for the next step.
We took apart some pallet tops (they look like a window and are stapled and come apart easy) cut them to 12 in lengths and made 12x12 panels for the nest boxes we also cut some longer boards to run the width of the coop to hold the nest material in place. We used those same pallet tops as a partial divider wall and Covered that with thick black plastic for privacy. Easy to replace if it does not work or hold up.
I need to put the baby to bed so more later.....
The first thing we did was take 10 pallets of the same size and type and made tables basically by adding legs that were 2 ft. We moved them all to the area for the pens and laid them out to be attached to each other in the field.
We added some boards all the way around as a ledger to line up the wall boards and to attach the tables to each other for stability
We had already pulled the pallets apart and had the boards ready to go. We cut 10 boards in half so they were about 18 inch tall (for the pop door area) and another 10 that were cut in half and half the width of the other (see pic) that made the opening about 12 inch.
We had to use a board on the inside to secure these short boards to the coop
so we did that all the way down the front.
Then we added some very thin wood we got at the same place to the coop floors to keep chickens feet from poking through the plastic we added for easy clean up. The wood you see too is for the next step.
We took apart some pallet tops (they look like a window and are stapled and come apart easy) cut them to 12 in lengths and made 12x12 panels for the nest boxes we also cut some longer boards to run the width of the coop to hold the nest material in place. We used those same pallet tops as a partial divider wall and Covered that with thick black plastic for privacy. Easy to replace if it does not work or hold up.
I need to put the baby to bed so more later.....