We had some serious issues last fall (almost a full year ago now) when a 9 acres we were leasing was foreclosed on. Long story short, lawyer said not to make an offer/purchase at the sale. We did do a contract and were staying in the house after the foreclosure - w/ us doing the renovations on...
ON the subject of pallets and hoop coops - I've combined those to make a shed at each of our pastures/paddocks for the ponies. These pallets are 48"x48" - making this "shed" 8' deep by 12' wide. The pallets are level, but are tied together for now with haystring (I have lots of that w/ 20 head...
Here's a set of instructions that include a parts list -
Hoop Coop PDF
As to mine, I don't have nest boxes in them yet - the girls are between 8 & 12 weeks old right now. I've got some baskets I can make into the nesting boxes - but think they are actually going to be too small for these...
My 3 tractors aren't pretty or fancy but they are functional, went up in a hurry and have already lasted thru 2 major moves. Now out in our pony pastures so that the chickens can amend all the sand we have on this property!
Here's pics of ours -
The bucket has the bottom removed and...
And if money is a concern - there are many styles right here on BYC showing hoop houses made from cattle/stock panels ($20 each at TSC). Most are pretty easy to build and you can get pretty fancy or ... not so much!
Each of our chicken tractors is about 8'x10' (a cattle panel is about 50'...