- Dec 5, 2009
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Ok, my wife has been after me forever to get some chickens. So, I am going to surprise her by building a coop and run while she is out of town. We have a large property, and a ginormous garage/quonset hut. I have the ability to easily enclose a 6'x15' section of the garage, cust a door and some windows in the corrugated steel sides, and an area right outside the new door that I can fence in that is 16x25. I was hoping someone had done somehting similar before and could give me some advice. The garage has a slab floor, but I was considering building a platform above that, if nothing else, just for temp control. We live in Eastern Nebraska, so winters can be pretty cold. I have easy electrical access and a full shop, so the construction shouldn't be hard, nor expensive. I know I need to think about ventilation, access and temp control of some kind. Any suggestions.