Coop and Run Pix

[aart]

Leave a space in the middle for a black rubber bowl of water and add a few ping pong balls that will break up light surface ice as they blow with the breeze.
I thought that sounded interesting.
Ideas please?

Had heard of that concept, do you remember what climate they lived in and if it worked? A lot of ideas you see here are shown just built, but not followed up for success/problems/failures. Might work if you turn your run into a greenhouse to help with heat gain.
I'd advise getting power to the coop....or getting several waterers to swap out.
I really like horizontal nipple waterers, can put them in any sized container.
But they can take time to train to from an open waterer.

Saugerties is about 10 miles north of Kingston, so not too far.

 

[NancyNurseCxMama]

Had heard of that concept, do you remember what climate they lived in and if it worked? A lot of ideas you see here are shown just built, but not followed up for success/problems/failures. Might work if you turn your run into a greenhouse to help with heat gain.
I'd advise getting power to the coop....or getting several waterers to swap out.
I really like horizontal nipple waterers, can put them in any sized container.
But they can take time to train to from an open waterer.

Saugerties is about 10 miles north of Kingston, so not too far.

Power to the coop is not going to happen.
I have a couple of waterers and would be okay with switching them out and I'm sure that's what we'll start out doing. We are retired and need the exercise.
My chicks were trained on a chick nipple waterer but I went back and forth with a nipple waterer and a regular waterer when they were put in the coop and run and got a little worried during a heat wave we had when the girls were panting a little. I went back to the regular waterer to which I added ice cubes occasionally (they thought they were little footballs, apparently---good times) and the panting stopped. Mixed feelings about the nipple waterer---the water that they knocked around was mixing with dirt and they were drinking from the puddles. Bleccch.
I guess we will do whatever we have to do---learning experience!

 

[aart]

Mixed feelings about the nipple waterer---the water that they knocked around was mixing with dirt and they were drinking from the puddles. Bleccch.

They always like to drink from the dirtiest puddle.
The HN's are less likely to leak than the VN's.
I have several articles about small bottles with HN's and holders, easy to swap out.
First year that I had a heated waterer I let a broody hatch and was still swapping out waterers...easy to do if you're retired and homebody, still gets old tho.

 

[CDA15]

Thought I'd share how our chicken home turned out.
The coop is a purchased Amish-made one. We added poop trays (two, to make for easier removal).
The floor of the coop is covered with a removable piece of vinyl flooring, as are the poop trays.
We made the run ourselves. 10 x 20 x 86" H, completely covered with hardware cloth. Buried hardware cloth down and out from the run.
The chicks (six of them, about 11 weeks old now) seem to love it. They have the shade under the coop to help with hot sunny days and they really do seem happy.
Hope you like the pics!
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I love it! We added vinyl flooring to our coop as well and will have removable poop trays for easy cleaning. Our chicks aren't ready yet for the coop/ run full time yet. I bring them out in the afternoon and bring them back to the brooder when evening come since it cools down. Hubs set up some chairs so we can drink coffee and watch chicken tv while they're having play time.

 

[382767]

Thought I'd share how our chicken home turned out.
The coop is a purchased Amish-made one. We added poop trays (two, to make for easier removal).
The floor of the coop is covered with a removable piece of vinyl flooring, as are the poop trays.
We made the run ourselves. 10 x 20 x 86" H, completely covered with hardware cloth. Buried hardware cloth down and out from the run.
The chicks (six of them, about 11 weeks old now) seem to love it. They have the shade under the coop to help with hot sunny days and they really do seem happy.
Hope you like the pics!
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Great photos. Very clean chicken living!!

 

[peckpeckpeck]

Mary your coop is beautiful!
Thanks for the advice on the woven wire. I think the coyotes in our neighborhood are too lazy try to break past hardware cloth. I have a 1ft shirt around the whole bottom of the coop. I'm more worried about the hawks coming while the girls are loose in the yard.