A new coop project!

[WestKnollAmy]

So I have an awesome friend that is bringing me lots of these every time she brings eggs for me to hatch for her or she picks up chicks.

Oh, the possibilities!!!

The one standing up is going to be divided in half to have an upstairs and a downstairs for 2 separate trios or quads of d'Uccles. I will put plywood over the open side and have a let down door for each "apartment" so I can collect eggs and clean them out. They will have slider Plexiglas windows and a pop door to go out into covered runs.

The ones laying down I am going to add 6" to the top, put screen around it for ventilation, a few windows, a door of some sort and a hinged top to open for eggs. This will be the other duck coops for the 60' runs.

There weren't too many photos here on BYC of shipping crates that had been transformed but I got some cool ideas.

They measure 4' wide, about 5' long and 2 1/2' deep. That does not include those skids, those are the inside measurements.

Please don't say take them apart. That is just a waste of my time when I can use them as is. There are so many ideas that I am running out of paper.

Now what would you all do with them? I love to hear more ideas!

 

[2wheelterry]

Great score. I love to see ideas using recycled materials for coops. Post some pics of the finished projects when you get them done.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I will try. I usually always put up photos on my website but I often forget to put them on this thread. I usually show them in my state thread so will try to remember to get them here, too.

I am in the middle of building 4 pens and 6 coops so there is no telling when I will get this all done.

 

[gertiie]

how awesome !! Cant wait to see what you come up with !

 

[Matt A NC]

Instant Brooder . . .

Matt

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Now, Matt, surely you have heard me say I do not use wood to brood in.
Plastic or wire only. Wood is a pain for me to clean.
And could you see me hauling one of these huge things out to clean it!?

Unless you mean to make it an outdoor brooder sort of like what you have.
We plan to put brooders in the end stall where the ducks coop up at night. Once the new coops are finished the ducks are moving out and I will have wire bottom 6' long brooders in there for chicks over 3 weeks old. Wood frame but wire on all sides. If I need to hose it down I can drag that outside. These crates are so heavy I am lucky to "roll" them.

 

[Chickencoop1996]

Nice.