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Chickens for Christmas Article written here if you want to hear more of the story.

Summary: - Picked up chickens (six) on Monday before Christmas. - Finished hardware cloth, took me about four days and several hundred staples and lots of digging - added a little ramp in the coop and redid the main ramp - Added some 2x4's to the nesting box outside to cover some of the...

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Roosting bars and nesting box dividers added. Ramp

Linoleum liner added to the sides and floor of the coop. I also put some in the nesting box. Added upper part of this wall. It's open between the roof and top of the wall a few inches.

I'll have to take some chances regarding that.

I am planning to put an apron of 1/2" hardware cloth around the perimeter. I'm using it for the screen around the sides too. I am getting chickens, probably six hens. I'll take what I can get - chickens aren't easy to come by these days, but there is one store nearby Hertzler Farm and Feed)...

Chickens definitely. I will be adding holes across the tops for all-season ventilation and light. Don't worry - this thing will be very breezy, with windows on two sides for now. I do want to add one to this side.

Decided the window will have to wait. Got the latches and nesting box handle on. One more wall with the chicken door, then the wire. I want chickens before Christmas!

Got most of the wall done around the nesting box, but my wife wants a window over the nesting box so I'll have to get that done.

Got the nesting box installed. The nail gun was very helpful for the nesting box assembly and for mounting it to the frame.

We want to try the deep litter system advocated by Carolina Coops. The coop will have a 12" deep litter bed, and we're going to add the industrial hemp sold by CC. A friend is hopefully going to bring me some leftover linoleum to line the bottom and sides. These next few photos show the...

Next I started on the coop itself. I put in the floor and one wall with what sill eventually be a window. Throughout the projects, I used clamps extensively. I initially cut the window wrong and had to redo it. Here's picture of it before I fixed it: I will put hardware cloth inside...

I did spend a few weeks clearing that spot too. I had vines, stickers, little trees etc. that I tried to thoroughly purge.

I'm well over six weeks. It will be four months if I get done by end of year.

nope, they're high. On the top row of the shingles, I did put roof tar over the nails and the seams pretty liberally. I ran a seam of roof tar under the shingles on top of the drip angle.

My buddy told me the same thing! I will probably do this. He got a kit at HD and it worked forhim.

Oh - about the plywood! I got untreated 15/32" plywood for the roof and coop. The plans called for different sizes, including some 3/4". That stuff is expensive!! For my little coop, 15/32" is plenty, I'm pretty sure. The roof took 3 pieces of 4x8's.

I built the door. I used a Kreg jig for joining the cross-pieces of the door. It works, but it's sagging just a bit and dragging on bottom. I fussed a bit about how to do the hinges, ultimately lining up the edge of the round part with the between the door and the frame. It turned out...