The Chicken Coop/Run Project Completed. Mom calls it the Chicken Condo

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Nice article with lots of pictures. Article included lots of details of what the author did along with all the measurements. It was nice to see the coop transformation, especially with the before and after pictures.
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To think, it all started with free chickens and a little coop :) You & your brother did a nice job on providing a more secure and roomier place for your flock!
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This is a wonderful coop and run. The lines are clean and simple, but appear much more complicated due to placement. I'd love to see a footprint and a few elevation sketches. Those and some end-of-project dimensions would bump this article up to five stars!
Love the round ventilation holes. How are they predator proofed?
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Michael Propst
As I have time over the next week I will sketch up a completed footprint and elevation sketch along with dimensions. I think I have about 60 pages of a sketch book filled up with my ideas and piece by piece sketches as I went through this project.
I am not sure if you are asking if the round ventilation holes are predator proof or the entire package. So I will cover both. The round ventilation are metal and they have been epoxied into their holes. As far as the entire build the 3 commercial windows has both standard window screen and a additional screen of hardware cloth that has been attached to a separate frame and mounted. The large end made window at the one end has hardware cloth sandwiched between the coop frame and the plywood with an additional standard screen framed and screwed in. All vents are either screwed or epoxied into place. Every access door on the coop has 2 barrel bolts and a security swivel hasp with a carabiner securing it. The door to the run has 4 points of security starting with 2 barrel bolts, a swivel security hasp with carabiner, and gate flip latch. The run is 100% enclosed with 1/2" hardware cloth (even under the eaves of the roof) that has been attached with hundreds of 7/8" crown staples. I have added a 2 layer predator barrier around the entire outside of the run, the first layer is 2' of 1/2" hardware cloth which actually runs under the run walls and folds up and staples to the inside, the second layer is 3' wide 1"x2" PVC coated welded wire fence which is stapled to the outside of the run walls. The hardware cloth overlaps 2' at the corners and the pvc wire overlaps 3' at the corners. I then secured it to the ground with close to 300 heavy duty landscape staples. I am adding a picture of the predator barrier to my story. Thanks
Hopperkiller
Very nice remodel. The roof design was different and added some personality. It appears these girls landed in a very good place.I hope you dont get much hail where you live. I tried the ondura roofing and the hailstorms here knocked gaping holes so i have been recycling metal roofing and use the ondura in my equipment leanto so im not walking in mud.
Michael Propst
Michael Propst
We do get some hail. Sometimes bad but I did put a 1/2 OSB layer under the Ondura for additional support.
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