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    Starting our 1st coop design and build. Photos and partial plans attached!

    Sorry it took so long, but here are some progress pics! Thanks for all the advice up to know. After this, I’ll post the final product as well as some lessons learned (like interchangeable windows, foundation lessons, and more!)
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    Starting our 1st coop design and build. Photos and partial plans attached!

    I will look into that. Thanks!
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    Starting our 1st coop design and build. Photos and partial plans attached!

    Thanks! I had read a few people mentioning their chickens hanging out under the coop. It seems like a great way to extend the size of their run. Question: Is there a way to do that but still build it on a skid foundation?
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    Starting our 1st coop design and build. Photos and partial plans attached!

    We’ve got some mid-century architecture influence here. Coop will be just over a foot above ground, and about 5x8 ft. We will have a covered run, then another opening to our raised garden bed area for them to have more roaming space. Just bought the framing lumber today! Plan for a 5-6 foot...
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    Foundation for a coop that may be moved.

    Pulling it using a Cat or something similar is likely, possibly conveyor belt style with some rods.
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    Foundation for a coop that may be moved.

    We are in the process of building our chicken coop. It will be approximately 5 x 8, at a 5-6 ft. height. Here is the challenge, we are also in the process of buying a quarter acre piece of property connected to our land, so where I put the coop now may not be the place the coop stays. My...
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    Long time lurker, finally took the dive.

    as requested! They are settling really well.
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    Long time lurker, finally took the dive.

    We will have 5 chicks by next week. 3 home today (a silver laced Wyandotte, a Buff Orpington, and an ISA Brown), and then we are getting 2 "American easter eggers" (mutts) next week from a friend who hatched them. Thanks for all the help ALREADY! Just reading posts and articles here helped us to...
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