Anyone ever read this?

[kuntrygirl]

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So true, I love your coop and intend to have one like it one of these days.

Thank You, The coop is working out great for me, Can't say anything bad about it. Doesn't smell bad, easy mantenance. Good old design.
Jack

I love your coop as well.

I wonder if I could build a coop to house about 200 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys using that same style. I'll have to see how much recycled wood I can get and get some measurements going.

 

[pips&peeps]

Just not feasible where I live and you can get drifts over four feet high in a couple hours in the winter. Frostbite is also an issue when it gets below -5 too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

pips&peeps :

Just not feasible where I live and you can get drifts over four feet high in a couple hours in the winter. Frostbite is also an issue when it gets below -5 too.

I know this is off the subject but would love to see a pic of your splash sebbies..​

 

[JackE]

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Thank You, The coop is working out great for me, Can't say anything bad about it. Doesn't smell bad, easy mantenance. Good old design.
Jack

I love your coop as well.

I wonder if I could build a coop to house about 200 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys using that same style. I'll have to see how much recycled wood I can get and get some measurements going.

Yes you can. In the book they show an expanded version of the WoodsHouse, That can handle 200 birds.
Jack

 

[JackE]

pips&peeps :

Just not feasible where I live and you can get drifts over four feet high in a couple hours in the winter. Frostbite is also an issue when it gets below -5 too.

They used coops like this all thoughout the northern regions of the country, Including Canada. You have it faced in the proper direction, drifts are not a problem. Frostbite with chickens, has more to do with excess humidty trapped in a poorly ventilated coop, than it has to do with the cold.
Jack​

 

[Miss Lydia]

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I love your coop as well.

I wonder if I could build a coop to house about 200 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys using that same style. I'll have to see how much recycled wood I can get and get some measurements going.

Yes you can. In the book they show an expanded version of the WoodsHouse, That can handle 200 birds.
Jack

Did I tell ya'll I'm getting the Book? so excited!!

 

[JackE]

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Yes you can. In the book they show an expanded version of the WoodsHouse, That can handle 200 birds.
Jack

Did I tell ya'll I'm getting the Book? so excited!!

Yeah, The house is a larger version. Imagine a coop about twice the size of mine, Now take 3 or 4 duplicates of the coop and join them side to side to side. That's basically what you have. Inside you have chicken wire wall dividers to separate the birds if you want. That's what the comercial egg farms used back in the day. They have pictures in the book showing the operations.
Jack

 

[hennyannie]

I have a friend who has a completely wire chicken house that her grandpa must have built years and years ago.
The coop is in the woods near her house, it has a nice 2x4 framework and tin roof.
The floor is designed in strips so they are not walking on wire all the time.
Last year when she got her chickens she was worried about the cold, she put a heat lamp in place of the regular bulb in the ceiling.

I have to admit her hens look alot better than mine and they are all sisters.
They are cleaner, molted faster than mine and looked like show birds when they feathered out.
We feed the same feed and do things the same, the only differance is the mine are in an oudoor run with an enclosed house.
I have been wondering about this for awhile, Our coop at my homeplace was more like hers.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I love your coop as well.

I wonder if I could build a coop to house about 200 chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys using that same style. I'll have to see how much recycled wood I can get and get some measurements going.

Yes you can. In the book they show an expanded version of the WoodsHouse, That can handle 200 birds.
Jack

Yea !!!!!! This is good news. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[mcostas]

something like that would be perfect for me. I actually plan on replacing my currrent small coop, which is nothing more than a place to go when they want to lay eggs, with something else but I hadn't gotten around to it. Mine never when in even when the nights were at their coldest. I actaully put them in after they were asleep just to make me feel better.

Maybe I'll get ideas from this thread.