Hannahnic14
Crowing
So my husband did this for me for my birthday this weekend and I just have to brag on him and show you guys!!
The current breeds in my bantam flock are as follows. Red cochin, silkie (4 colors), gold campine, self blue old english, belgian d'anver, d'uccle (mille fleur and porcelain), gold and silver sebright. Most of these are still in a brooder.
The best thing is, the only supplies we had to buy were the 2X4's! (Those were expensive enough
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Ok, so we have a 10X16 storage shed beside our house. And I wanted a nice coop for my bantam flock so why not!
We only converted half of it because we still need some storage area at the moment. But in a few month we are going to move all of that out and use the other half for brooder boxes!
This is the part we converted for the time being.
We framed up a divider wall and a door. A little over 7 foot tall. (This is a semi-permanent wall)
Covered the top half of the door, (and side walls) in chicken wire and the bottom 3 feet with plywood. That way they don't get too much of a draft when the shed doors are open and it keeps the pine shavings contained. The shelves you see to the right will be divided into nesting boxes. And we obviously have to add some more ventilation at the top of the walls on either side.
We will also be adding a flip up door on the side wall somewhere so we can clean it easier!
Until we are able to get the ventilation in, I will open the main doors during the day and I have a small fan running on low to keep air circulating. We have large dogs that patrol our property so I'm not worried about predators during the day. The dogs can't get in the coop because the door latches.
We still have to add alot more pine shavings and move the pressure washer out. That will be done today. They seem to like it though!
This is the little ladder and outside coop door. It has a latch to keep it up during the day. We have about 80ft of temporary fencing from Premier1 that we are going to use for the run until we can build a permanent one. There is also hardware cloth covering the gap between the bottom of the building and the ground. It extends under the building and is staked into the ground so nothing can dig.
I'll end up having 15-20 bantams at most. The permanent run will be quite large, we just don't have specifics yet. But I'm thinking a 10X16 or even 10X20 will be good when I did the square footage calculations. They will be able to free range eventually, when we are able to get a fence up between us and our neighbors. Lol. This is our first ever coop project so I'm sure we did alot of things wrong.
But as long as they have adequate space, ventilation and are cool, clean and dry, that's the most important right??
The current breeds in my bantam flock are as follows. Red cochin, silkie (4 colors), gold campine, self blue old english, belgian d'anver, d'uccle (mille fleur and porcelain), gold and silver sebright. Most of these are still in a brooder.
The best thing is, the only supplies we had to buy were the 2X4's! (Those were expensive enough
)Ok, so we have a 10X16 storage shed beside our house. And I wanted a nice coop for my bantam flock so why not!
We only converted half of it because we still need some storage area at the moment. But in a few month we are going to move all of that out and use the other half for brooder boxes!
This is the part we converted for the time being.
We framed up a divider wall and a door. A little over 7 foot tall. (This is a semi-permanent wall)
Covered the top half of the door, (and side walls) in chicken wire and the bottom 3 feet with plywood. That way they don't get too much of a draft when the shed doors are open and it keeps the pine shavings contained. The shelves you see to the right will be divided into nesting boxes. And we obviously have to add some more ventilation at the top of the walls on either side.
We will also be adding a flip up door on the side wall somewhere so we can clean it easier!
Until we are able to get the ventilation in, I will open the main doors during the day and I have a small fan running on low to keep air circulating. We have large dogs that patrol our property so I'm not worried about predators during the day. The dogs can't get in the coop because the door latches.
We still have to add alot more pine shavings and move the pressure washer out. That will be done today. They seem to like it though!
This is the little ladder and outside coop door. It has a latch to keep it up during the day. We have about 80ft of temporary fencing from Premier1 that we are going to use for the run until we can build a permanent one. There is also hardware cloth covering the gap between the bottom of the building and the ground. It extends under the building and is staked into the ground so nothing can dig.
I'll end up having 15-20 bantams at most. The permanent run will be quite large, we just don't have specifics yet. But I'm thinking a 10X16 or even 10X20 will be good when I did the square footage calculations. They will be able to free range eventually, when we are able to get a fence up between us and our neighbors. Lol. This is our first ever coop project so I'm sure we did alot of things wrong.
But as long as they have adequate space, ventilation and are cool, clean and dry, that's the most important right??
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