Backyard Brahmas!!

[speckledhen]

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I have only two of the smaller pens covered, one just so the bantams can't fly out, the other because it used to be their coop and now belongs to the old hens. My other pens are mostly too large to cover. And my birds do free range on a rotating basis as well. If birds are penned, they are more likely to be killed by predators if the pen is unstable as far as the wire used because they simply cannot get away nor can they really hide as they could free ranging. So, penned flocks do need predator proof but well-ventilated coops. As long as the fencing is tall and strong and they are all put inside before dusk, all should be well, generally. No one said there was anything intrinsically wrong with Toby's coop, just suggested how to make it more predator proof and that it might need some ventilation-tweaking.

I've seen coops made from the neatest things! They are on our coop pages. Same rules apply for ventilation for healthy birds, no matter what they are made from.

 

[SD Bird Lady]

Lol. Bumpercar: you would not want to take on restoring this Willys. Its in bad shape. Its rusted out so I get plenty of ventilation. Its basically the bed and rear quarter panels. You can have it if u will haul it off

Forgive me, but what is a willys?

 

[bamadude]

@toby_alexis&makenzie: I think your coop is excellent. Its alot better than mine

 

[bamadude]

Forgive me, but what is a willys?

Its a really old jeep. A jeep wranglers great grandpa

 

[SD Bird Lady]

Learn something new everyday!

 

[Amberjem]

I liked tobys coop it's cute

 

[bumpercarr]

Lol. Bumpercar: you would not want to take on restoring this Willys. Its in bad shape. Its rusted out so I get plenty of ventilation. Its basically the bed and rear quarter panels. You can have it if u will haul it off

I kinda figured that's what it looked like. Unfortunately, it is really difficult to find one that is semi-intact. But, I keep looking. At least out here we don't have TOO much of a rust problem...mostly so banged up that it would take forever to find new panels to work with. But, I'll keep looking....

I have seen some folks turn the most interesting things into coops...lots of fun looking at those projects.

 

[bamadude]

I totally agree. I really like @Alaskan's bantam campershell coop that costed $0.
Bumpercar google 2016 jeep willys. Thats a bad machine

 

[big medicine]

 

[21hens-incharge]

Someone here in Colorado made a chicken "tractor" out of a working mini van. Came in really handy when forest fire hit and they had to evacuate.