Chicken Run Build and Shed conversion-25 + pages

Select page

Overview 8' X 18' run, 6" deep Coopers ready to build with rough cut pine from a local sawmill 2 X 8s and 4 X 4s in place Doors are a work in progress After 9 skid steer buckets of sand back wall is made up of 1 X 6s Got a roof now with 1 sheet of clear Coopers thrilled with his BIG sand box Hardware cloth buried on the bottom and chicken wire on top, everything stapled Made a door for the run and got the doors on the coop made a window and door for the west side and attached hardware cloth closed for the winter but will be open soon attached OSB to the sidewalls and insulation above-metal sheds get too hot in the summer big window facing the run, can open and close a weather dictates and of course a pop door the tricky part was connection these two wierd buildings, but it worked out well, used scraps of wood and another piece of tin and a piece of vinyl flooring from HD gutters from the scrap installed ventilation and light for the north side made nesting boxes and hung the food, and waterer sits on a heated base for the winter Roost bar with poop board and PDZ added reinforced plastic for the winter pop door is on a line that I open and close from the outside cement block is for the 5 gal waterer Look what they gave me for breakfast New and improved heated waterer View full article