well, I have been around chickens since the day I came home from the hospital as a baby so you think I would know not to buy more chickens if you don't have the coops already built, but I did it, I got lavender orps, bcm (both from Paul Bradshaw at Greenfire Farms, great to do business with by the way), buff bramas, black americanas and white americanas, oh yea and blue polish, so what do I do now, I guess I build, I decided I would build 6 connecting coops with a rain water capturing system that is cooled for summer and heated for winter as we get some pretty cold weather here and filled with fresh water every time it rains. I use a nipple system that is heat taped in the double layer coop and it works great, so it was a good place to start the new system will supply both sets of coops. I wanted sand in the runs because my property is very heavy clay and it gets muddy pretty fast, so I decided a sand box under the coops would work good since I have about 8 tons of sand left over from a septic job, so without further here are some pics of what I have done so far.
this is how I connected the parts for the sand box
and the boxes completed, the runs will set on top of the boxes
some of the birds picking out there rooms
and the hardest part the sand, it took two loads per box
the help showed up just in time to level the sand in the last box, those bums
and the boxes filled with sand and leveled
next step is to build and wire the panels for the sides tops and backs, they will be painted white, I designed this on google scetchup but cant figure out how to get a pic on here, any help? figured it out
I'll be posting updates as progress is made
this is how I connected the parts for the sand box
and the boxes completed, the runs will set on top of the boxes
some of the birds picking out there rooms
and the hardest part the sand, it took two loads per box
the help showed up just in time to level the sand in the last box, those bums
and the boxes filled with sand and leveled
next step is to build and wire the panels for the sides tops and backs, they will be painted white, I designed this on google scetchup but cant figure out how to get a pic on here, any help? figured it out
I'll be posting updates as progress is made
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