Chickens by Easter .... Maybe

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45lk9p459gm-w said:
Don't know if we are going to make the Easter deadline.
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Par for the course when building a coop (or anything really) - it never gets done on time. As long as you can be flexible with when you get the chicks, it'll still work out just fine. And if not, well, you brood in the house or garage to buy yourself a few extra weeks.
 
rosemarythyme said:
Par for the course when building a coop (or anything really) - it never gets done on time. As long as you can be flexible with when you get the chicks, it'll still work out just fine. And if not, well, you brood in the house or garage to buy yourself a few extra weeks.
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Agreed .... but your post made me stop and think about where things stand. The coop will be completed on time but the run won't and the coop is plenty big enough for those birds to stay in 24/7 for a while. .... no problem. Thanks for the reality check.
 
45lk9p459gm-w said:
Agreed .... but your post made me stop and think about where things stand. The coop will be completed on time but the run won't and the coop is plenty big enough for those birds to stay in 24/7 for a while. .... no problem. Thanks for the reality check.
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That'll work out fine then, as the coop should be the priority. Especially since chicks are tiny and the coop is spacious, they can easily spend the first 6-8 weeks inside without issue.
 
This should be the last night of subfreezing temps .... I hope. Maybe I can get back to work on this shed/coop conversion and get it finished.

One thing that may be of interest to some is that the pop door (Ador) worked perfectly through all the cold, sleet, freezing rain and snow. It went up at dawn and down shortly after dusk like its supposed to. It is located on the east side of the coop so it didn't get enough freezing rain and ice buildup to jam the tracks that the door rides in. I will have a porch/cover to shelter the door and keep rain and ice off of it later.
 
Still working on the coop and slowly getting things finished. Got the interior wall up, people door made, and started covering the wall with chicken wire.

I have found that chicken wire is the pits to work with. The wire on the people door isn’t just the tightest of tight and looks like it was done with third grade engineering and a Kindergarten labor pool. I’ll just call it “rustic” and see if I can do a better job of putting the chicken wire up on the rest of the wall.

Next is making the vent across the back wall and covering it and the soffit with hardware cloth. I think I will like working with the hardware cloth better.
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I learned where a bunch of our local wasps are over wintering today. I have to remove the vinyl soffit and a piece of siding so I can make a vent across the back wall of the coop. When I pulled the top piece of siding loose a swarm of wasps came out form behind it. Scared the crap out of me. They were all packed into the hollow spaces between the siding and the wall. I’m glad it was a pretty cool day and they were very sluggish. You can see a few of them still crawling around on the wall. Now I’m wondering what else might be living in there … do chickens eat wasps?

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