When we brought ours home they bent them double like they did yours.. but laid them down on edge in the bed of the truck.. lol.. so ours didn't stick up nearly as high as your did!
My husband used a rotary cutter to cut ours.. worked great
I don't think I ever came back with pics of ours.. but the link with pics is in my signature
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/our-hoop-coops
we have several now.. planning to add another this fall...
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in the christmas coop thread there is mention of solar powered christmas lights.. I think those would work well for lighting the inside of a coop
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They are 2x4s, but some people use 4x4s.
Most people build a 2x4 frame and then try to curve the panels and attach them to the frame, which is really hard (we built a tomato tunnel that way, and my husband still doesn't like to talk about it. )
But one smart BYCer attached the...
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I would LOVE to see how you made a coop out of cattle panels! I went to your BYC Website and was very disappointed that you have not posted any pictures of your coop there. I hope you put some pics up soon of your coop! Sounds really neat, but I simply can not envision what you...
we LOVE our hoop coops!
the one for the DP layers is 9'X16'
the one for the turkeys is 9'X20'
we will be building at least 2 more this spring (one for muscovys and one for meaties).
We used cattle panels and covered them with poultry netting (chicken wire) with the bottom three feet in...