The exterior nesting box plans were from the many different versions that I looked at on BYC. There are 4 nests accessible from the outside for gathering eggs.
The girls just got moved into their new Shack. So much brighter and cooler than the slapped together area in the barn where they had been living.
The roof is steel, also left overs from the barn. The siding is planks pulled from free pallets that were gathered around town. A pop door was made which can be opened from the outside for the chicks to have access to the run (when it is finished).
All of the shuttered windows and the Restore window are covered with this open diamond plate screening that we got from the salvage yard. This is about as predator proof as we could get.
The exterior nesting box plans were from the many different versions that I looked at on BYC. There are 4 nests accessible from the outside for gathering eggs.
The interior wall separates the coop part from the food & storage part of the Shack. We used some weather barrier around the outside of the Shack that was left over from our barn project. The walls and ceiling are fully insulated using leftovers from a "buddy's" remodel project.
With the walls up, we used 2x6's for the roof. It took lots of internet reading and emails to my dad to figure out anthing that needed angles. One window is left over from our barn project and the other is from Habitat's Restore.
Since we do not have very much shade, we decided to start our Chicken Shack as we would a deck allowing enough space underneath for chicks to have a place to hang out in the shade. We started with treated 4x4's and 2x6's. Then covered the frame with hardware cloth. The bottom of the frame will be covered in hardware cloth that is buried to make it predator proof.
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The exterior nesting box plans were from the many different versions that I looked at on BYC. There are 4 nests accessible from the outside for gathering eggs.

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