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Quote: I'm just outside Knoxville in Seymour---where all the storms are hitting this evening! Would be just my luck to have a tree fall on the coop now that it's done!

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy : My 'gal has dark blue feathers. That's what I'm hoping for too. Going to be interesting to see what hatches from a cross between her and Ameraucana roo. Guessing that the blue color is recessive so it would be the black or splash that would show up...along with whatever...

Quote: I went for the pulley on the door so I could open it through the dutch door from the storeroom without having to go into the coop. Mornings I'm often running late and anything to make it faster! I have the roosts attached with eye hooks so I can unhook them and move them around. I...

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy : Oh, I have a Blue Andalusian hen, Coral, she is such a sweety! She lays me medium sized white eggs and is so curious. My Buff Orpingtons are quiet, gentle, and have a super sweet temperment. The Blue Andalusian and the Partridge Rock were last minute choices when I decided...

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy.[/quote : It looks amazing! What kind of chicks are you getting? Oh, and by the by....you can NEVER post too many pics! Thank you. I never thought building a chicken coop could get so invlved! As for the chicks, which hatch a week from today, I'm getting a real mix...

Seven months later and it's finally done---and a week ahead of the arrival of the chicks! Still need to finish the run but I've got a bit of time for that. It's been an interesting process, certainly the most elaborate thing I've ever built. I had a great time doing it! Clearly I was not real...

Quote: Thanks but that train left the station long ago. And I'm not sure it's a problem. It sits solid now and basically it has to hold 15 chickens and their feed. It's also about a bit off square and about 3/4 of an inch off plum on the front walls but I'm a social worker not a carpenter...

Been moving along. As it got framed, the rafters went on and the siding started to go in it's actually starting to look like something! I would like to get the outer siding all up and the roof on before it gets too cold. I then I can finish off the inside over the winter and add a run...and...

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy : Floors' looking good! It's really frustrating---last week I was out of lumber, this week I'm out of sun. Two solid days of rain! And of course those would be the two days this week when I have the most time.

Didn't get as much done this week as I wanted. I had planned spend this afternoon starting to frame it but it poured rain all day. I did get the flooring on and the linoleum on it.

The building 12 little frames thing was what I was hoping to avoid I'm pretty sure that small holes won't do much but if I put say an inch diameter hole every 4 inches that would be roughly (saying the inch hole =1 sq inch) 6 sq inches of vent per 2 foot section and along the length I would...

Quote: Now here's an idea. Wouldn't take much to put in a door and that would make it a lot easier to get to the back... with that and your rake you may have solved my problem! Predator proofing is an issue But I was planning to use a trench and some concrete to secure the bottom of the wire...

Quote: I would love to but life keeps getting in the way of my coop-building time Gotta find time to work up my lumber list and get it delivered out here. Don't think I can manage to get the floor and wall panels into my Prius. But I am going to prowl the Habitat store and the back of...

Quote: I'll have to check it out. Right down the road from you in Seymour (the Blount Co Part)

Quote: I'm definitely laying the flooring then doing the walls. It seems to me a great way to seal the floor and cut down on moisture and rot between the floor and the linoleum. How did you run the flooring up the wall? I just can't decide about using the space under the coop. I went up 18...

Quote: Wasn't planning on insulating any of it. The teens in the winter around here is about as bad as it gets and that doesn't happen much. In the summer the shade all around it keeps the site cool---or at least cooler. It's a thought tho....

This week's progress. Need to get some lumber before I can do anything else. I decided to leave it high enough so that I had the option of giving the chicken access to the space (after all, it is 64 sq feet) underneath from the run. Still not sure I want to be crawling under there for eggs but...

Got the post holes dug and the post set. Eight holes with all those trees and didn't hit a single root! Next step will be raise and level the outer frame, level it put in the floor joists and trim off the posts. Then gonna have to get some lumber in for the floor and to frame it,to I think...

Quote: No gators---and don't really want any. There are bear up in the Smoky Mountain Park but never seen them around here. Actually the most annoying critters around here are squirrels with wild turkeys a close second. But we did manage to construct a squirrel guard on the bird feeder that...

Quote: East Tennessee, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's probably gonna be kinda slow going given my schedule but I want to be done with the coop by early spring. I want to order chicks in Feb to get here the first of March. I figure then I have until April/May until...