Anyone like my coop? Think repairs are needed?

[Katydid2011]

It's a cute coop. Looks like it might be a bit difficult to clean, unless there's a "people door" that I'm not seeing in the photos, and I would most definitely switch out the chicken wire for hardware cloth.

 

[maria09]

Your coop is beautifull and looks so snug. O how I envy you. I have been thinking my brains out how to build a coop for my 11 chickens. They sleep in a tree. My husband recons that it would be difficult to to change them to sleep in a coop. We have 2 roosters as well. Luckily we don't have racoons in South Africa. I want to ask you do you lock the little door in the evenings?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think it's a good looking coop but other than what others said I would consider adding a gable vent.
IMO you can't have too much ventilation.

 

[dbcooper02]

Now that everyone has raised heck about the chicken wire. How long do you think that magnetic door catch is going to keep a coon out?

 

[maria09]

Seeing that you grow fruittrees, I would like some advice on my fig tree. How can i keep the birds from eating the figs before they are even bigger than a grape?

 

[TechnoCat]

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yes, there is a people door on the side of it.

 

[TechnoCat]

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Yes.

 

[TechnoCat]

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we shut the door in the evenings. It's worked for two years.

 

[TechnoCat]

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I'm putting a heat bulb in soon.

 

[TechnoCat]

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well, I actually don't grow fruittrees, but you could put a gate around the trees, to where you can reach it, but the birds can't