So in love with this
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So in love with this
WOW! Your chicken coop and run are brilliant with colors and decor!! You must certainly be a happy happy person in life...it shows!!
Thank you so much for posting this Sylvester017!! I'm glad you did before I went to the expense of buying DE and using it. I had no idea!! I'm fairly new to the chicken world and have heard "DE this" and "DE that" so much here at BYC I assumed it was a good thing. Fortunately, for me, my little girls are in the new coop with wood shavings at present (having trouble locating the right type of sand), and their run is being built as we speak. Again...THANK YOU!!
Your "perch" is so cool. I bet you get a few too, don't you. They know you're watching.
Well, from one 'ol senior citizen to another (got ya beat...I'm 70!)...you did a bang up job!! Wishing you all the best in your chicken venture!My coop is finished and being used by my new chicks. I'm going to name it "MY PLACE".
It's where I go to be by myself and watch and enjoy my flock. I'm 65 and have no real building skills. But I love "My Place".
I built this mostly out of scrap and cull wood, except for the roofing and some of the siding.
My tools were a circular saw, tape measure, a drill with drill and screw bits. The paint was exterior "oops" paint from Home Depot.
The raised hutch is 4'x4' and the coop is 12'x12'. The run is about 15'x22' with room to expand if necessary.
My roost is low because I have heavy breed chickens and a silkie that sleeps on the floor.
What breeds and how low? My biggest chicken is a LARGE Black Australorp and she has no problem with the 4' roosts. I do, however have a 2' roost 9" forward of the pair of parallel 4' roosts. All the girls use it to stage on the way up, even the ones that can get to the top of a 4' fence with ZERO effort. None use it on the way down. Probably need it farther away for that.
I have a fan inside because it is hot as Hell in Houston in the summer
Saw the fan before your comment on it and thought "SMART!" How many people who live in blistering heat places think about that all important fan up front?
This is my biggest regret. I really wish I had exterior nesting boxes so I would have more room inside the coop. I have a big pine tree right outside the nest boxes so I am stuck with this awkward layout and waste of space.
Clearly you need to cut down the tree!