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Yea, I wouldn't do that. Cinderblocks it is! If you worry about things tipping over, might put in a metal fence post (like the green T-posts - pretty fast and cheap, you just shove it in the ground), and tie the bucket to that.

Or you could use the type of wire that folks use to secure chain link fabric to chain link posts. That stuff is easy to bend by hand, pretty durable, and has a load rating. If you're securing from the ceiling, some of that wire tied to your hoop coop with a carabiner on the bottom end to hook...

Those hens are hilarious! My Production Red rooster Speckle lost three comb points to frostbite when we went from 50F one day to -9F that night. I feel bad about it, but there's only so much I can do. The last time we got negative temperatures where I live was 30+ years ago or something like...

Crazy chickens! I could see myself putting up bird spikes, and them somehow managing to roost up there anyway and getting hurt, so I just decided to make it an actual roost, in spite of it not being the location where I wanted them. I'm like, "Do you really want to get frost bite???" And...

When I use 5 gallon buckets, I put them on top of oversize cinderblocks (12"x16" I think) and secure them to the inside vertical supports of the run with really tight bungee cords, rope, and/or carrabiners. This makes the horizontal nipples on my waterers the correct height for the chickens...

I mounted my feeder on the pallet flat on the ground. I used a rat proof chicken feeder (ratproofchickenfeeder.net and ratproofchickenfeeder.com) and secured it to the pallet, then secured a dual feed bin on the back side of the feeder to hold grit and oyster shell. This keeps things out of...

Yes. No problems so far. I made sure the hardware cloth was very taut to the wood at the bottom and the frame at the top using radial washers/screws and pipe strap for the wood, and metal zip ties for the (basically bent chain link top rail) greenhouse frame.

Final summer run pics and winterized run pics (plastic on it in addition to the tarp). I added a pallet shelter in the middle, but the (stupid!) chickens kept roosting on top of it, and I got tired of putting them down inside the shelter, so I converted the top edges to a roost. My rooster got...

Mostly-Final Run pictures. I added a 3 ft apron with about 600 12" garden stakes to hold it down. Also two latches secured with carabiners and a sliding latch, all on the coop door. Took a lot of metal zip ties. Used house wrap to cover where I folded the hardware cloth from the ends over...

Good to know, thank you!

We have chickens in the run/temporary coop!!! It's the second night of run occupancy. It will take a bit longer to put the metal shed up (permanent coop) and do all the modification (mainly adding ventilation), and the chickens are ~9+ weeks now and too big for the watermelon box. We were...

I can totally get behind that!

Thank you! I've changed the designation of this activity from "livestock" to "hobby". I did the "livestock" investment/return and cost/benefit analysis and decided that "hobby" would have a larger and more forgiving budget. I really wish one of those pre-fab coops would have met my needs...

@aart could you take a look and tell me what you think?

Here are the pictures of my run to-date. I'm trying to build a Ft Knox chicken run with connected coop. The coop and run will be open to each other all the time. After I get the run done, I'll cover it with a tarp that stops about 2-3 feet above the ground (so plenty of ventilation across and...

So, the build progresses. Pictures will come eventually. By application of gravel under the vertical supports on half of my site, I've managed to level the greenhouse frame. I've added a 2x4 wood frame to the interior bottom of the greenhouse, and attached it to the metal frame with pipe...

Thanks for the information. Good to know. I'll keep this thread updated as my build progresses.

I appreciate everyone's replies. I've gotten good information from almost everyone's ideas on this thread. Thanks for chiming in, everyone. As an update, I've purchased a 10'x20' hoop style greenhouse frame, and have put it together and located it in my yard. It's up on some cinderblocks...

Thank you!

Super interesting, thank you!