I wanted to have a way to make sure my birds have water all the time in the hot Texas summer and find a way to keep from breaking my back lugging a heavy bucket into the coop. Nifty-Chicken uses the Auto Wata inside his coop and I found one to use in my hoop house. aI'm very happy!
I want to make a roos for my hoop coop. I think that I can take 2X4's and make a ladder to lean up against the back of the coop but I am having a hard time visualzing how to nail the cross boards on so that the birds have the 4" side up to stand on. I could do it easily and have teh 2" side up...
Here is a link to my thread showing how I made this house.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2159
We had a storm last spring with winds up to 80 miles an hour and a microburts and the hoop house took it with no problems. The base is 2X4's and heavy so that probably helps.
Mine LOVE LOVE LOVE pecans. I have a tree in the backyard and if I crush a fallen nut the girls will come running from all over the yard and peck my foot off.!
I have roasted them like everyone else but instead of using butter I ahve used butter that I mixed with Harissa (moroccan hot sauce) or chipotle in adobo then slather on and roast.
Heaven!
all 5 of my hens have something like this on their combs. My eggs have slacked off to about 2 a day as well. Is this something serious?
If you can't tell I'm talking about the dark spot and the ashy "bloom" on the comb & wattle.
Thanks!
My blue tarp has fallen apart from sun exposure:( I have a silver camping tarp, mush heavier material. Is this stuff more UV strudy? this blue tarp only lasted 6 months.
I've got a 10X4 as well with 5 girls and I think it is a bit tight but they have done well in it so far. they are 9 months old. I didn't realize how big Delawares got.
This is my set up, the nest box is a cat litter bottom. the hens seem to like it well enough but I was wondering if putting the lid on would be better? then it would be darker and more enclosed. It would be more of a PITA to get the eggs out. What do you think?
Here is a link to my hoop coop I finally got put on my homepage. It is very different than most of the featured coops.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=785-My%20hoop%20coop
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this is how I made my hoop coop. I have 5 full grown Delawares in it now but I put 10 chicks in it.