Building an "Old Style" henhouse.....move in day!....... (pics)

[vicki2x2]

That white trim really makes it pop!! Lookin' good Steve!!

 

[chickorama]

How many chickens are you gonna keep in there??

 

[Steve]

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I currently have 16 hens and 2 pullets (with a matching roo) I am hatching 24 eggs right now and if I get a 50/50 ratio that would eventually give me another 12....so 16+2+12.....30 hens and one roo. The roo and his girls (BLRW) will be in a breeder pen for a while inside the henhouse.....there are a couple folks who have asked for BLRW fertile eggs.

 

[Steve]

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Just wait till I get all the white facia and soffits on....it should really look good.

 

[Buster]

 

[The Chicken Lady]

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Ha ha, Angie! Steve lives closer to my house than yours!

You may be closer but she made a sweeter offer!

LOL! I see through your wicked plan! You just want him to visit Angie's so that he has to drive through Kentucky and build you a coop, too!

 

[FrChuckW]

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You may be closer but she made a sweeter offer!

LOL! I see through your wicked plan! You just want him to visit Angie's so that he has to drive through Kentucky and build you a coop, too!

And your point being???? Of course I would love to have one built for my gang like that, but not until I get my farm! Besides I have my own tools, now I just need to learn how to use them and get the lumber and nails!

 

[Steve]

This mornings progress:

I got to thinking about some of the names we call different things such as F channel, soffit and facia and I thought maybe some people don't know what the hen I mean by those names.....so, here is a close up of the F-channel which is actually shaped like the letter "F" and can be installed the way you see it in my pic or turned the other way. Usually I install F channel before all of the siding gets done, but I wanted to get the henhouse covered from the elements and I can install if later. Here you see the F channel and the soffit installed into the F channel.

Here is the underside view of the soffit panels, as you can see I have used vented panels and solid. I used a pattern of 3 vented, then 1 solid. When I build a house I do the opposite, but since ventilation can be a concern I did it this way.

And a more frontal picture to show all the components including the facia. Aluminum facia is a covering that is installed over the rough facia board, in my case a 2 x 6.

The gable end facia needed a custom made facia covering since typically bought facia is on 3/4 inch at the bottom and I am covering 1 1/2". So the gable end facia which is a 2 x 6 got covered with a custom bent aluminum facia. This picture, I think, really shows off the red and white combination of what the whole coop looks like when finished.

And this is the far gable end of the henhouse with all the siding and aluminum finished.

Now the next steps are to make the little chicken door, install man size door in this end. Install windows up above......

Then install linoleum, nest boxes, roosts and a seperate breeder pen.

Any one fall asleep yet?

 

[chickflick]

Very informative. Still don't know what the hen you are talking about, but....very informative.

 

[KrisRose]

I know what yer talking about!!! Chickflick-where is Handy Dick hiding???