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You'll have to go to a tractor supply or a local feed store to get cattle/combo panels, the big box store doesn't see them.. I used 4 panels, at 8 feet wide, by 16 feet long and 6ish feet tall. Good enough space for 12 standards.
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The panels are 16' sections, so its not the panel size, its the width of the run, that determined the heigth of the hoop. Mine is a bit under 9 feet wide, leaving almost 6 feet of standing room in the center. BeeKissed, that picture of your panels in the back of your truck had me...
LOVE my sawsall. I found it a bit easier to cut them on the ground though. Those blades cut anything, so let it (the blade) run into the ground and stand on the fence to keep it from shaking all over the place.
When I finished up our coop, and had to cut a hole in the run for the pop door, it...
#BeeKissed, thank you for your kind words.
We are experimenting with grow beds in a different coop right now, not sure how well they are working out though. Do you have a recommendation on how to build these? I used landscape timber in a rectangle (like 2x6), some paneling and then chicken...
Here's a few shots of the hoop house we just built. It's 16x9(ish), cattle/combo panel with hardware cloth and apron. All 2x6 framing to withstand lots and lots of abuse.
This is a perm structure for use with a house attached on the back end. Although if you had a skip/cat or flat bed or...