EmmaDonovan
Free Ranging
I'm sorry it's so difficult to see what's going on. Sketchup and I are NOT friends. I did the best I could.
We are building for 8-10 laying hens. We cannot free range so this will be all the space the hens get.
Proportions in the drawing are off. The coop is 8' wide by 16' long. The front is 7' tall and the back is 6'. The door is supposed to be 80"x32". It's a Dutch door that opens inward.
We're trying to build the coop in two 8'x8' sections that can be separated for moving to a new home in a few years.
An interior wall is missing, Sketchup wouldn't let me add it. It will have a solar-operated a pop door for the hens and a large ventilation door.
The ramp will not be steep like that, I just couldn't move it. It won't be smooth, either.
The roost area is 6'x8'. There are two removable roosts (16' total). We'll use a hemp deep (6") litter system.
East side has a door that drops down for easy cleaning, plus to two doors that fully open. Each of those have a door-within-a-door that you can open just for ventilation.
There are four nest boxes; Sketchup wouldn't let me draw them. That's a paned window covered in hardware cloth above the boxes.
There's a 4'x4'x3' cabinet to store feed and other supplies.
The big tube thing by the door is a cistern that will be connected to a water bar inside.
The white vertical thing next to it is supposed to be PVC pipe for grain. It connects to the white thing that's hanging in mid-air inside the coop.
We'll use 1/4" hardware cloth throughout, including 1' down under the run, to keep out predators.
The white tubes at the top of the frame on the southern and western sides of the coop are rolled-up shade cloths. The sun is most intense on those sides during the summer.
Roofing is 12' rib steel roof panels. I have no idea what Sketchup thinks it is, but that's what it will be.
We are building for 8-10 laying hens. We cannot free range so this will be all the space the hens get.
Proportions in the drawing are off. The coop is 8' wide by 16' long. The front is 7' tall and the back is 6'. The door is supposed to be 80"x32". It's a Dutch door that opens inward.
We're trying to build the coop in two 8'x8' sections that can be separated for moving to a new home in a few years.
An interior wall is missing, Sketchup wouldn't let me add it. It will have a solar-operated a pop door for the hens and a large ventilation door.
The ramp will not be steep like that, I just couldn't move it. It won't be smooth, either.
The roost area is 6'x8'. There are two removable roosts (16' total). We'll use a hemp deep (6") litter system.
East side has a door that drops down for easy cleaning, plus to two doors that fully open. Each of those have a door-within-a-door that you can open just for ventilation.
There are four nest boxes; Sketchup wouldn't let me draw them. That's a paned window covered in hardware cloth above the boxes.
There's a 4'x4'x3' cabinet to store feed and other supplies.
The big tube thing by the door is a cistern that will be connected to a water bar inside.
The white vertical thing next to it is supposed to be PVC pipe for grain. It connects to the white thing that's hanging in mid-air inside the coop.
We'll use 1/4" hardware cloth throughout, including 1' down under the run, to keep out predators.
The white tubes at the top of the frame on the southern and western sides of the coop are rolled-up shade cloths. The sun is most intense on those sides during the summer.
Roofing is 12' rib steel roof panels. I have no idea what Sketchup thinks it is, but that's what it will be.
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