Bottle Coop?

[Sunny Chook Farm]

that would be so neat. Go for it!

 

[KAKBucks]

OK, So putting lids back on the bottles really isn't feasible, especially if you're asking others to collect bottles for you.

I don't want to fill the bottles with anything because that would block most of the light effects from the glass.

Is there an easy way to seal the bottle ends? Maye expandable foam? Is there something better? Which end would you put inside and which end would you put outside.

If the main part of the coop was made out of beer bottles you could put in some wine bottles that would stick out for a small roost (albeit slippery) and could try sliding something inside the neck of the bottle to hold up a roost from one end of the coop to the other, but it wouldn't be very wide.

Any suggestions on an easy way to get labels off of bottles?

We may just try this project

I'm intrigued enough to actually think about doing it.

Kendra

 

[lizard7]

Wish I had thought of that for my chicken coop. I recently stayed in a house in NM that was built with bottles and cans (www.earthships.com) and it was beautiful. The bottles are cut in half and pieced together to get that stained glass look. Cans would be easier for a coop and they are cemented together, think of the can as a brick. We loved the earthship and it was a completely off-grid self sustaining home.

 

[lizard7]

Correction, www.earthship.com will give better pictures of constructing with bottles and/or cans.

 

[sugarbush]

cordwood would be faster to collect than bottles.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Well now I know what to do with DH and my DB empty beer cans. We easily have 4 large pick up truck loads of beer cans. They say they are saving them to recycle. Yeah, uh-huh! It's been many years and all they have done is collect them in bags. Guess that would be a neat looking structure. And the fumes could put the chickens to sleep!

 

[utahmethodist]

Very cool too - It wouldn't work well in California, at least not glass ones

I have a Sunset magazine landscaping book with a home in California that did the retaining walls in their sloped backyard with wine bottles. It's AMAZING looking! They did this whole tectonic plates inspired look to reflect the geology of California.​

 

[Wildsky]

How neat - I wonder how a can building would look - I'll have to GOOGLE that.
DH drinks lots of soda in cans.

 

[HeadHen]

Wow the insides of those places look like your standing in a giant LightBrite toy.

 

[Momma_Cluck]

How Kewl!
I bet it's beautiful at sunrise/sunset!!!!
Gotta wonder about the summer temps tho---- wouldn't it really heat up-- like a greenhouse???

There is a house I have seen made from bales of hay covered with Stucco-- they used metal pipes imbedded in the cement foundation (upright) to "Impale" the bales and steady the stacks---- The only wood were the roop supports, door & window frames-- then they covered the whole thing in stucco!
They say it stays cool in summer and warm in winter and that the energy bills for heating/cooling are less than 1/3 that of a "traditional" house the same size.....

I was thinking of trying that for a Roo-coop!