Manure Wrangler
Hatching
- Oct 20, 2016
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Oh My, that looks rather crowded......Here is the coop and hen house my Wife and kids and I built. The coop is 6'T12W'x24'L. The treated posts are 18" deep with concrete. We buried the chicken wire below the surface to keep coons, possums, and dogs from digging underneath. The hen house is 6'LX4'WX3'T and is pretty much framed like a stick built home except I used 2X3's instead of 2X4 and 2X6's. I put 2" styrofoam insulation in the floor, walls and the roof. The siding is old cedar barn boards. I put a 30 year 130mph rated comp roof on as well. The window on the side is a piece of removable plexiglass that gives them some light inside and allows us to clean it out easily every few days. I used the slide off of the kid's old swing set we hauled to the dump and I put 3M stair tread material on it to give them some traction going up and down. I built them a roosting station and they all 6 like to cram together on the top rung. The roof on the nesting boxes is hinged so that we can gather the eggs without going inside the coop. There are 4 separate boxes and most of the time they use the same one. It wasn't necessarily inexpensive, but it cost us less money than the premade coops they sell at Farm stores and is built 10X better. This one will last a long time. It was a fun project for us and we are enjoying the delicious fresh eggs. I'm sorry I don't have a material list to share, I designed the whole thing in my head and built it from my vision of what I wanted it to be. I'm more than happy to answer any questions. Thanks for taking the time to read along.