Thanks for the tips AART, I modified my profile. Much better now.
I used to give people tours of our gardens and honey bees when we lived in Florida so I remember people were always sort of intimidated with drip irrigation. All you need for the chicken water filler is a $34.00 controller...
So the roost bar's where they sleep are 2x2 wooden square pieces that I sanded so they have rounded edges. Then I painted them with a high quality brown paint. They are mounted on a trex bar connection system.
The watering system is so simple I'm surprised I haven't heard anyone else doing...
We're also new chicken owners and 4 out of our 9 chickens started laying within the last 4 weeks. However the first Buff Orlington to lay went broody this week. We were kind of shocked it happened so fast but after a little bit of work we broke her of it. We removed the fake eggs and hers out...
Eleven years ago I downloaded plans for a chicken coop from BYC but alas, our timing and location just weren't right. After moving to a nice property along the Gulf Coast of Alabama we finally got enough time and space so we built a coop and got our cute baby chicks in February. All I can say...
Back around 2014 I fell in love with your Palace coop design and we were considering getting chickens. Unfortunately chickens weren't something we could do at the time. I saved the sketchup files and here I am almost 10 years later and we now have some baby chicks ! So we're almost finished...