Cheep Accomodations on the way!

[La Banan]

The pop door is a button on the outside that you depress while pulling the door up - on the inside is a spring mechanism so that the button goes in and as soon as the door is up it pops out again holding the door up. It is indeed a pop door with a pop button! Ron said he used the same idea to make laundry chute door.
Now he's making a feeder out of old plastic buckets. He WILL NOT do anything on the run but advise though. Hmphh!
Jan

 

[La Banan]

Cool -- I like the skylight. Is it a piece of plexiglass? I might have to borrow your idea for my coop!

Yes it is some form of plexiglass that Ron calls Lexan or something - the skylight is made of it and it is roofed right in with the roofing tiles and the window in the door is made of it. He had it from an old job...​

 

[La Banan]

Ron made a beautiful feeder today out of two plastic buckets - works great and we fixed the hanging waterer that I bought - or Ron did! It was dribbling all over the floor because someone at the Co-op had knocked something off the top leaving a hole so it wouldn't stop running. So that's fixed. I dug away at the trenches for the fence - it is nothing but gigantic boulder, huge roots etc... argghhh - don't know how the settlers did it here in rocky old Nova Scotia but I'm part way done. We just herded the birds back into their home. They had a fun day in the woods and the weeds while we worked around them. Hard to catch the blighters though!

Now, out for dinner. Yay!
Jan

 

[Justino]

OMG!

why cant my coop be that cool with all those lil nifty gadgets L

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[LynneP]

Nice job Jan, my computer crashed and burned so I've been offline for two weeks. We still have Mary the Raccoon in the barn (thinks she's a cat) and the biosecurity is holding up.

You've been very busy! We keep thinking of modifications, but now with winter looming we decided to buy a heated waterer and 'sleep' on it. We used PalRUF over the run, which I believe is Lexan and we're pleased- but winter will tell!

 

[La Banan]

hmmm...yes, we've been talking heated waterers - Ron thinks he can make one somehow. He likes the puzzles and he likes the chooks. Still have a fair bit of work to do but so nice to have them nice and dry and warm and safe in their wee hoose and also have my office back which was absolutely covered in thick dust - receipts, bills, everything. Think I've gotten most of it but we'll see.

jan

 

[hensdeliverthegoods]

What a great looking coop! And I love the pun in your subject line ("cheep" accomodations on the way)

 

[cajunlizz]

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Nice coop . How many chickens do you have ?

 

[La Banan]

Hi Cajunlizz - I have twelve but they were a straight run so as soon as I find out who the boys are they will be sent to military school - no I think I have homes for them. I only want six hens so if I have more than that I definitely have takers for the extras. I tried not to name them but eeps - mostly they are named.
I think a few are trying their voices - will they cluck or will they cock-a-doodle do? Only time will tell.
Jan