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  1. AnitaBheer

    Making a larger hoop coop?

    I am building my first coop and enclosed run. I want to do a hoop style run with cattle panels (the actual coop is a 8x12 shed). But instead of a long skinny run, has anyone welded cattle panels together on the short end and made a wider hoop house? If you take two 16ft panels, overlap by a...
  2. MrsJones05

    Hoop Coop Tractor vs Stationary Coop//Run in Winter

    This may be a dumb question but here goes… I’m trying to decide on what kind of coop to make. If you have a hoop tractor, do you leave it in one place during winter and put some sort of floor layering in it? (e.g., sand, straw, pellets, shavings, etc.)
  3. Sefirothe

    Hoop height calculator?

    I know I saw a calculator or maybe a infographic on how tall/short a hoop coop could be made depending on how wide you make the base. I'm drawing blanks trying to search the forums for it tho. Anyone got it bookmarked?
  4. N

    Chicks wanting to be tucked back into brooder each night

    ...day so they can get excercise and get used to their coop and then bringing them in at night until we could finish predator proofing the new hoop coop. I want to leave them in now, but when it starts getting dark they are all gathered at the front of the coop staring at the house peeping...
  5. 2

    New member from MN

    That is something we are considering. I found the hoop coop that @Chook-A-Holic posted and we want to do something similar. Is there a way I can purchase the plans? https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/permanent-hoop-coop-guide.47818/
  6. D

    Coop building isn't working out, running out of time and not sure how to proceed

    I have never made a hoop coop, but I'm thinking you need some wood supports to help give some rigidity to it, particularly around the door. EDIT: Just looked on here because I know that I had seen some hoop coops when planning my coop, hopefully it's OK to share since it's not mine...
  7. SnackMeat

    Where should I buy a chicken coop from?

    If you're in a rush, hoop coop from cattle panels, hardware cloth, etc. is the most economical way. If you have time, scour for used coops but also factor in having to sanitize them if they recently (less than a year) had chickens in them. Building a coop is hard and it sucks. I would go for...
  8. S

    Coop building isn't working out, running out of time and not sure how to proceed

    I think you're spot on. I'm not confident in my abilities but that looks perfect.
  9. janiedoe

    New member from MN

    Welcome to BYC. I'm sorry for your losses; thatbof your dog, and your birds. Good luck with your hoop coop build.
  10. whudson

    Winterizing the hoop coop

    The old barn had to come down, so I built an 8x12 hoop coop for my 17 chickens. The rear is fully enclosed with the top and sides covered with hardware cloth and a tarp. The front is just hardware cloth and the door, with a small solar fan to blow fresh air toward the rear of the coop. With...
  11. fuzzi

    Feeding Wild Birds

    Thank you!
  12. StinkyAcres

    Simple, least amount of tools necessary coop and run plans? Or a local coop company in North Texas?

    How about a cattle panel hoop coop? https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/ms-biddys-cattle-panel-hoop-coop.73755/
  13. N

    Coop too hot

    We built a hoop coop and I placed a thermometer inside to keep track of the temp. The coop is covered with a large white tarp. The temperature has been 10+ degrees hotter inside the coop than outside despite having a solar fan setup. I panicked and we removed the tarp and tried putting ground...
  14. CrystalAnon

    Time of year for incubating

    Oh that’s awesome! We only have one coop & a hoop run. Anything we set up needs to be within that very well protected coop & run. But the coop is way drier than the run, consistently.
  15. paintedChix

    Painted Chix - refurbish/enlarge coops

    ...the sandhills of NC, Harnett & Moore counties. I LOVE open air coops. I have found building w/ Cattle Panel (CP) & generally hoop them as hoop coops to be relatively easy & doable at my age & condition, by myself. All of our pens, tractors & hooped coops are open to the ground. No wire...
  16. CluckinOnTheYakus

    Winter ventilation question in a hoop coop

    This spring we made a hoop coop tractor to raise some meat birds in. After we butchered the meat birds I hatched out some chicks and they are currently in the hoop coop. We had intentions of building an actual coop but we hit a few snags this summer that unfortunately consumed most of our time...
  17. Mother of Chaos

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Squash?! In MAY?????????? 🤯😲 And your hoop coop is amazing. You did a great job!
  18. G

    Are my chickens safe if we seldom see any predators

    My wife and I built a hoop coop for our 11 chickens. Here in Port Arthur, Texas we live inside city limits. Very seldom we see a possum or raccoon. We use an automatic run chicken door with the timer set for opening and closing. So far we haven’t had any problems, however our surrounding...
  19. C Siena

    New member from MN

    I opened the image in PS and upped the DPI from 72 to 100 and did not notice any distortion. Below. Then I lowered the Brightness and it made the writing a little bolder, albeit a touch of graininess around the writing.
  20. C Siena

    New member from MN

    Maybe you can copy the images and with some type of photo editor you can make it a bit more readable. I'll see if I can do anything with one image in PS/photoshop. Ours is an old version, the last on CD but works well for our needs.
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