Hello everyone!! My wife of 31 years, Cheryl is an awesome cook and really wants some chickens to provide her with those beautiful big brown eggs so we've decided to go into the chicken biz.
She's also very excited about tending and generally enjoying the chickens. I'm enjoying the planning and looking forward to the building of the coop and run. I'll be making all the nesting boxes, roosts, feeders and so on. I love to research pretty much anything so I've been scouring this site, YouTube and pretty much everywhere else I can find.
We've chosen a spot for the 8x9 coop and the attached 8x20 run. My woodworking/metalworking/race car shop (30x40) is 100' behind the house with our raised bed veggie garden right next to it. I have a 9x9 compressor room on the back of the shop that houses my air compressor and provides general storage. We are going to attach the coop to the compressor room so they will have a shared wall. Basically we will extend the same shape of the compressor room to form the coop. Here's some views of the garden and shop area.
Here you can see the compressor room better. We will attach to the end wall and go out for the coop. The run will extend past there along where the chain link fence is now. I'll be removing most of the fence. The coop and run will have doors opening into the garden so this will be the back of the coop and run. We're planning on a couple of windows in the back with one window and the entry door on the front.
The coop will be styled much like my storage building but with a sloped roof to match the compressor house of course. I'll be using the same siding, windows and rough cedar trim and the colors will be the same with perhaps a few more whimsical accents just for fun.
And here is the coop and run!! Ok, it's more like a coop and run kit at this point.
I'll begin prepping the site in the next few days. I'm going to start cutting and pre-building as I have time and Cheryl and I will be taking a few days off work in the next few weeks to assemble the coop and run. We are looking very forward to the process and especially to getting the chickens. I know I'll have a bazillion questions along the way. Thanks in advance for being gentle with us newbies. We always had chickens when I was growing up but Cheryl is a city girl so this will be her first time. I'll post more as we go along.
Terry
She's also very excited about tending and generally enjoying the chickens. I'm enjoying the planning and looking forward to the building of the coop and run. I'll be making all the nesting boxes, roosts, feeders and so on. I love to research pretty much anything so I've been scouring this site, YouTube and pretty much everywhere else I can find.
We've chosen a spot for the 8x9 coop and the attached 8x20 run. My woodworking/metalworking/race car shop (30x40) is 100' behind the house with our raised bed veggie garden right next to it. I have a 9x9 compressor room on the back of the shop that houses my air compressor and provides general storage. We are going to attach the coop to the compressor room so they will have a shared wall. Basically we will extend the same shape of the compressor room to form the coop. Here's some views of the garden and shop area.
Here you can see the compressor room better. We will attach to the end wall and go out for the coop. The run will extend past there along where the chain link fence is now. I'll be removing most of the fence. The coop and run will have doors opening into the garden so this will be the back of the coop and run. We're planning on a couple of windows in the back with one window and the entry door on the front.
The coop will be styled much like my storage building but with a sloped roof to match the compressor house of course. I'll be using the same siding, windows and rough cedar trim and the colors will be the same with perhaps a few more whimsical accents just for fun.
And here is the coop and run!! Ok, it's more like a coop and run kit at this point.
I'll begin prepping the site in the next few days. I'm going to start cutting and pre-building as I have time and Cheryl and I will be taking a few days off work in the next few weeks to assemble the coop and run. We are looking very forward to the process and especially to getting the chickens. I know I'll have a bazillion questions along the way. Thanks in advance for being gentle with us newbies. We always had chickens when I was growing up but Cheryl is a city girl so this will be her first time. I'll post more as we go along.
Terry
