My Coop is almost done

gibsonbuzz

Songster
9 Years
Mar 22, 2010
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Coloma, Michigan
The Foundation has 5 blocks (4 corners and center)
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8x8 floor 2x4 16" center to center
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Each wall panel was built on the ground 24" center to center
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Walls were erected and fastened
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The roof is 10x10 and was built on ground, then lifted in place. 16" center to center
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Windows were bought from a building surplus store for $20 each
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My wife and I did the painting (exterior house paint)
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The soffet I finish my building frames with furring strips and stapling hardware cloth to and then attaching the frames to soffet.
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The run is 6x14, 36" hardware cloth going 15" under the ground and along bottom of fence, welded wire fence the rest of the way up. I laid pig fencing I had laying around to support the top and then welded wire fence on top of it.
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All that is left is to finish is painting the trim and soffet green, the next warm day we get.
 
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From beginning to end....About 1 month, but if I worked straight through and had the money to buy all the supplies up front, probable 1.5 weeks.
 
This week I will start on the turkey run. That should be easy. I will be using the ribs from mt 16' wide green house. Just two of them.

So far I have:
16 hens. 2 roosters, 8 cornish cross jumbo's, and 2 turkeys named, thanksgiving and christmas.
 

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