In the beginning....
I had the urge to move to the country. She was a city girl with a penchant for shopping. You probably saw the television series modeled after us...
Design Principles....
Here is the beginning of our coop:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/84931_spring_break_031.jpg
AHHHHHHH can't figure out how to host/post pics
Update: May 30, 2011
This is not a cheap venture, is it? Even with reclaimed, salvaged, etc...
$70 2x4's, screws, etc.
$100 chicken wire for moat (to be around the garden, will need much more wire, yet to come)
$100 chicken wire for run
$70 hardware cloth for hen house
I think I've spent too much time on it already, but then most of the investment has been ciphering and thinking things through on site. I am using junk around the farm, so I have to design to fit. I spent 2 days framing, another day re-framing, 2 days on the original tin, 1 day on tin work since, 4 hours on trenching and hardware cloth work so far....so since Spring Break, I've invested what seems like about 6 days on it. I keep thinking that it will break loose and go faster here sometime.
I had the urge to move to the country. She was a city girl with a penchant for shopping. You probably saw the television series modeled after us...
Design Principles....
- easy cleaning, so easy my wife could do it!
- child-friendly, so they might someday assume some duties and satisfy their curiosities
- accessible, so that we all might be able to harvest eggs, clean the house, etc.
- inexpensive, so that it might some day be actually built
- recycled, built by-and-large of repurposed materials
- wary of predators (we have coyotes, snakes, cats, etc.)
- room for 20 layers, at 4sq ft per bird, thus 80 sq ft
- considerate of our climate, central Kansas
Here is the beginning of our coop:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/84931_spring_break_031.jpg
AHHHHHHH can't figure out how to host/post pics
Update: May 30, 2011
This is not a cheap venture, is it? Even with reclaimed, salvaged, etc...
$70 2x4's, screws, etc.
$100 chicken wire for moat (to be around the garden, will need much more wire, yet to come)
$100 chicken wire for run
$70 hardware cloth for hen house
I think I've spent too much time on it already, but then most of the investment has been ciphering and thinking things through on site. I am using junk around the farm, so I have to design to fit. I spent 2 days framing, another day re-framing, 2 days on the original tin, 1 day on tin work since, 4 hours on trenching and hardware cloth work so far....so since Spring Break, I've invested what seems like about 6 days on it. I keep thinking that it will break loose and go faster here sometime.