What better way to add your own flare to a coop than with funny puns! Welcome to "The Chick N Strip!" Where there's "Live Chicks" and nightly "Peep Shows!"
We wanted our chicken strip join to have plenty of inside floor space to accommodate several chicks at a time and still have some back stage storage space! The floorplan is an 8x12 and it's roughly 9ft tall at the front and 8ft in the back.
Flooring: Plywood decking and 2x6s - it's on skids so it can be winches onto a trailer and moved if ever necessary. A traveling peep show!
Walls: 2x4s and plywood - cut out and made windows, doorway and chicken door with the same materials. The ramps inside and out were made of 1x10s with 1x2 stakes used as the slats.
Trim: around the base it's 1x6s and vertical trim is 1x4s.
Roof: vinyl sheeting
Inside: branches that were cut down from above the coop were utilized as roosting bars, and perches in front of their nesting boxes. The nesting boxes are recycled storage cubicles! Small chicken wire was used in all of the windows. Regular size was used as the divider between the chickens interior space and storage space.
Outside: their outside run is roughly 15x16 and around 10ft tall in the center. Chicken wire is around the exterior and wildlife netting has been attached to the top to keep out any predators. Center support pole will eventually be painted and swings added...you know, the girls need swings on center stage after all!
As of now there's nothing I would change in our process. It took a lot of time and hard work for my husband and I to build (with the help of our 10month old foreman)
We wanted our chicken strip join to have plenty of inside floor space to accommodate several chicks at a time and still have some back stage storage space! The floorplan is an 8x12 and it's roughly 9ft tall at the front and 8ft in the back.
Flooring: Plywood decking and 2x6s - it's on skids so it can be winches onto a trailer and moved if ever necessary. A traveling peep show!
Walls: 2x4s and plywood - cut out and made windows, doorway and chicken door with the same materials. The ramps inside and out were made of 1x10s with 1x2 stakes used as the slats.
Trim: around the base it's 1x6s and vertical trim is 1x4s.
Roof: vinyl sheeting
Inside: branches that were cut down from above the coop were utilized as roosting bars, and perches in front of their nesting boxes. The nesting boxes are recycled storage cubicles! Small chicken wire was used in all of the windows. Regular size was used as the divider between the chickens interior space and storage space.
Outside: their outside run is roughly 15x16 and around 10ft tall in the center. Chicken wire is around the exterior and wildlife netting has been attached to the top to keep out any predators. Center support pole will eventually be painted and swings added...you know, the girls need swings on center stage after all!
As of now there's nothing I would change in our process. It took a lot of time and hard work for my husband and I to build (with the help of our 10month old foreman)
