OMG I am so freaking tired. I worked on the coop and run alllll day today. I made my poop board first. Then I put hardware cloth over the eaves on the back of the coop. Then I managed to catch my son and a friend of his before he hightailed away from home, and had them help me move the run to the coop, put all the wire down around it, and stake it down. Then I planned where my pop door was going to go and cut the wire of the run where the door was going to go. Then cut the pop hole door (not very easy I might add). I decided to use a slide up and down type door, so I made 2 tracks for the door to fit into. Then I had to cut some scrap pieces of board to go around the door on the outside to staple the wire to so no predator could squeeze into the gap and get in. Then I cut my door itself out of some thin bead board type paneling left over from a project. I drilled a hole into the top of it, then I drilled a hole in the wall. I wanted to be able to go to the door of the run to open it, but be able to open the pop door from there, too, without having to go into the run or through the people door. So for now I just tied some nylon hay string to the top of the pop door, ran it through the hole, and ran it over the top of the run to where the gate is. When I work all I will have to do is go to the gate of the run and open the gate and the pop door at the same time. I will take pictures tomorrow, I am so freaking tired, hot, and nasty right now I just can't do it. Oh yeah, I made the ramp, hung the food inside the coop, hung the big waterer in the run, and I am just waiting for the chickens to go into the run for the night so I can put them to bed in the coop for their first night. Pictures tomorrow to illustrate all my designs. Could not have done it without all the support and pictures and explanations of so many people on this site who posted their coops and runs. Thanks so much!
