Here is an old aluminum shed That has a good roof , and a working crank out window. The shed still has stuff in it from when we moved in 2 years ago. The bottom is not concrete but carpet layers over plywood?!( Landlord is famous for rigging everything instead of doing it right the first time)We have our work cut out for us.....
This is the shed
We cracked her open and began the battle against spiders and stinkbugs- pulling every last item out of it , we then took out the old "flooring" and wheel barreled in tons of sand. We have a water pump you can see on the left that we want to protect from the chickens and also theres piping going in and out of a cut spot in the aluminum- so we are building a 3 sided box to latch on to the wall- that will cover it and can be removed for maintanence . you can see a piece of chicken wire stuck up over the window- but we actually have hardware mesh to screw into the window frame instead because of BYCers great threads on past experience.
This is the front door with damage to the aluminum along the bottom of the door and a slash on the right of it. we plan to put on both sides thick wood as like a "kick board" type of panel to secure it and same but smaller for the slash on the right
Also dug out a trench on the front side thats in our fenced yard and have 2 big bags of concrete.. we plan to lay today after putting the chickens inside their coop because im worried about the airborne concrete dust clouds.....
The other sides situated outside of our yard will have low lying electric wire (already setup , just have to run it to the pigs live fence which is a few feet away
We wanted to get fancy but we figured we would change the game plan to make it easier on us for now.We sure have enough work to do to make the whole thing extra predator proof
OK heres a shot of the finished water pump box & the hardware mesh covered crank out window on the right we have a shelf for the nest boxes and a ramp that we have to finish
Concrete will be good to go by morning and i have another day off from work so we will get it done and the girls will be in it tomorow night.
eventually we will pressure wash the outside and paint plus paint the water pump box to match.
Cant wait to post pictures tomorow after more progress has been made
This is the shed
We cracked her open and began the battle against spiders and stinkbugs- pulling every last item out of it , we then took out the old "flooring" and wheel barreled in tons of sand. We have a water pump you can see on the left that we want to protect from the chickens and also theres piping going in and out of a cut spot in the aluminum- so we are building a 3 sided box to latch on to the wall- that will cover it and can be removed for maintanence . you can see a piece of chicken wire stuck up over the window- but we actually have hardware mesh to screw into the window frame instead because of BYCers great threads on past experience.
This is the front door with damage to the aluminum along the bottom of the door and a slash on the right of it. we plan to put on both sides thick wood as like a "kick board" type of panel to secure it and same but smaller for the slash on the right
Also dug out a trench on the front side thats in our fenced yard and have 2 big bags of concrete.. we plan to lay today after putting the chickens inside their coop because im worried about the airborne concrete dust clouds.....
The other sides situated outside of our yard will have low lying electric wire (already setup , just have to run it to the pigs live fence which is a few feet away
We wanted to get fancy but we figured we would change the game plan to make it easier on us for now.We sure have enough work to do to make the whole thing extra predator proof
OK heres a shot of the finished water pump box & the hardware mesh covered crank out window on the right we have a shelf for the nest boxes and a ramp that we have to finish
Concrete will be good to go by morning and i have another day off from work so we will get it done and the girls will be in it tomorow night.
eventually we will pressure wash the outside and paint plus paint the water pump box to match.
Cant wait to post pictures tomorow after more progress has been made
