Big enough for 4-5 Chickens?

[Hawgon]

Sorry took pic at night so kinda dark but I think you get the idea of what I did. It is the same coop as the one the girls are in front of but I just took roof off and added to the top and removed the right side nest boxes and have a poop board there now. There are 2 roosting bars in it now and they all sleep on em. The addition was all extra fence boards and misc stuff I already had from building the run and other coops.





I will try to take some better pics soon and some inside pics....

 

[Time-Out]

Sorry took pic at night so kinda dark but I think you get the idea of what I did. It is the same coop as the one the girls are in front of but I just took roof off and added to the top and removed the right side nest boxes and have a poop board there now. There are 2 roosting bars in it now and they all sleep on em. The addition was all extra fence boards and misc stuff I already had from building the run and other coops.





I will try to take some better pics soon and some inside pics....

That's quite spectacular! I have a coop/run combo, same sort of style as the OP (with apex roof and the house is higher off the ground, but same size), and made loads of modifications just to get it to work for three bantams. Nothing I did was quite as extreme as what you did. The access door on mine is really awkward. I was thinking about cutting the other half of the wall to make it a double door. Your changes give me hope that it wouldn't affect the stability too much; the wood is so thin.
I don't have any photos of the inside of mine, but I removed one perch and raised the other, so they'd have the whole of the floor. It's still tight for them. I was only going to have the two, but one takes hours and hours to lay while the other runs around outside, panicking, so I brought her sister back.
We only use the run in Winter, so stop the wind and rain going in the house. In Summer, it's packed up in the garage and the house sits on the lawn so we can use the patio.
Before putting the house together, when we first bought it, I did two coats of wood preserver. A few months later, the roof started going green and warping. It's now painted.

With the amount I've spent on it, I sometimes wish I'd bought a small shed instead, hence my comment.

 

[Hawgon]

That's quite spectacular! I have a coop/run combo, same sort of style as the OP (with apex roof and the house is higher off the ground, but same size), and made loads of modifications just to get it to work for three bantams. Nothing I did was quite as extreme as what you did. The access door on mine is really awkward. I was thinking about cutting the other half of the wall to make it a double door. Your changes give me hope that it wouldn't affect the stability too much; the wood is so thin.
I don't have any photos of the inside of mine, but I removed one perch and raised the other, so they'd have the whole of the floor. It's still tight for them. I was only going to have the two, but one takes hours and hours to lay while the other runs around outside, panicking, so I brought her sister back.
We only use the run in Winter, so stop the wind and rain going in the house. In Summer, it's packed up in the garage and the house sits on the lawn so we can use the patio.
Before putting the house together, when we first bought it, I did two coats of wood preserver. A few months later, the roof started going green and warping. It's now painted.

With the amount I've spent on it, I sometimes wish I'd bought a small shed instead, hence my comment.

The back door is kinda awkward but I have not changed it.....yet...lol It is kinda hard to see in the pictures but there is a complete roof over my run so no weather or moisture gets on the coop itself so in theory it should last a long time. The wood is thin on my unit also and my addition literally sits on the existing peak frame and is only made from cedar fence boards and some misc cedar boards so is not that heavy and protected from wind ie side loads....I removed my lower perches also but I have about a broken egg a week in there so I put the bars back in to help protect the egg on the floor of it. I use sand, DE and Sweet PDZ in my coop and poop boards and it works great. I agree on I wish I had traveled a different route than this now but it was very cheap off craigslist although knowing what I know now I could of built a very nice one for not much more money.

 

[cknkids]

Well I'm the geek who has to do the conversions... 340mm = 13.4 in, 960mm = 3.14 ft, 700mm = 2.3 ft & 2200 mm = 7.22 ft
There is only about 13" under the hen house, I think 18 in. is suggested. The hen house is 7.23 sq ft and the run including the area under the hen house is only 22.7 sq ft. (15.5 sq ft if you don't count the area under the hen house) So if you follow guidelines of 4 sq ft of house space and 10 sq ft of run space it would be pretty tight. You might use this unit as the hen house and put it in a enclosed run as others have. Its amazing how the chicks grow into chickens ours have changed so much this year. Good luck and enjoy.

 

[brierose3]

we have decided to put them in our old shed and do it up a bit... as for the run, there is too many trees to put a fence, will barbed wire at the top deter foxes from climbing?

 

[Hawgon]

Revised coop pics after cutting old roof off and adding on to it. Right side nest boxes became poop board.

 

[Time-Out]

Very neat job. I'll have you round to fix mine up
You didn't get rid of the perches that are just off the floor?

 

[Hawgon]

Very neat job. I'll have you round to fix mine up
You didn't get rid of the perches that are just off the floor?

I did but I kept finding broken eggs on the floor of it and I thought if I put the bars back in it would protect the eggs. I was wrong. I only find 1 or 2 eggs a week there so I think one of my newer hens is breaking her own eggs. First time for me on something like this. I find 5 or 6 other eggs a day in the regular nest box so I dont think it is a egg eater, just her own egg breaker maybe.?? Any advice?

 

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It could be she needs a bit more calcium? If the shell is thinner, it doesn't take much to for a beak to break it, even accidentally. I've had that issue with just one hen. Everyone else's eggs were fine, but if someone got in the nestbox after her, there'd be yolk everywhere. I swapped to rollout boxes and started mashing up hardboiled eggs with the shells as extra treats. I also changed the feed to a better quality one, in case the previous one didn't have quite enough vitamin D. So far, so good. Nice solid eggs again

If you already have oyster shell on offer, perhaps you could find a way to increase vitamin D intake to see if that makes any difference. At least the egg isn't breaking in the nestbox. It's nasty when they all get covered.