Construction of our cold weather chicken coop...pictures too!

Wow! This is fabulous! I love the sliding poop tray. I was thinking of making my coop bigger but didn't want to have to climb across the coop floor to clean the poop tray, your sliding feature may be my solution. Im only in the planning stage and thank you for sharing your awesome coop.
 
Where in the Adirondacks are you? And I'm might have drawn conclusions but what TSC did you get cream legbars from ???

Oh wow! Been busy and didn't see this! We are in Tupper Lake...but I got the CL's from a breeder in Vermont, while I was at UVM for a Dr. visit. Her stock was amazing! They are pretty miserable in the winter though. Miserable enough that we added an oil filled radiator in there! :) The "bigs" are Golden Comets or something like that, and they did just fine. I just incubated two Icelandics (and will be doing more) because they probably are more cold hardy. We drive through Wells every now and then!
 
Wow! This is fabulous! I love the sliding poop tray. I was thinking of making my coop bigger but didn't want to have to climb across the coop floor to clean the poop tray, your sliding feature may be my solution. Im only in the planning stage and thank you for sharing your awesome coop.

I use a rake to pull it toward me to clean. I can't get in there...the bones are way too creaky! :) It's awesome and adds a bit more walking space. Not that they are in the coop during the day unless it's below 0 or laying eggs! The only thing is that you have to clean out the wheel channel--was thinking of adding flashing or something but it's not that big of a problem.
 
Wow! Amazing!

Would really love to know more about the 'hen-cam', please.

it's a Foscam--just a little one from Amazon. Since the coop has power, my husband put in Ethernet over Power...it's a little plug in thing that plugs into our router. Then when the camera is plugged into the power out there, it sends the picture and sound to the Foscam app on my phone. It's lovely! I can see if someone is sick or that they are safe at any time without disturbing them.

You know, when you hear chickens through the closed window and look to see that it's just the egg song! :)
 
it's a Foscam--just a little one from Amazon. Since the coop has power, my husband put in Ethernet over Power...it's a little plug in thing that plugs into our router. Then when the camera is plugged into the power out there, it sends the picture and sound to the Foscam app on my phone. It's lovely! I can see if someone is sick or that they are safe at any time without disturbing them.

You know, when you hear chickens through the closed window and look to see that it's just the egg song! :)

Sounds amazing. Am on Amazon as we speak ha ha
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