Coop door trouble shooting...

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

I can’t really tell the full layout but you could do a simple extension on the side. Mine is pretty complicated with my new coop and porch but I used to have a simple extension similar to this one. I’ll try and find an old photo and post it. Here is my current side extension to the big run.

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Thanks for the pic! Just seeing more connection options gets my brain going. I didn’t think about raising the connection up to the coop door like that. Interesting idea!

 

[Birdsong 82]

I don’t think it will be too bad since it’s just an entrance wait for them it may not have to even be as tall. We are working on our run expansion with our new coop and building a run the correct way is an easy so I can understand looking at adding any more and going oh my. I could understand not wanting to cut more holes into a structure

 

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

Unless there’s any other openings where your run is I guess you would have to cut another door. Is the run going around the side with that window? If it is you could maybe make that a door for them depending on how wide it is and have a ramp. I even saw that one person made a chicken hallway From the entrance to the coop to their run. Made out of hardware cloth. Pretty creative and pretty cool. She said her chickens like to sit in it because the air gets under them and all around them

I guess it could wrap around i am just limited to space on the back side with the soy bean farm next to us. His big equipment makes very wide turn so i don’t have a lot of space to work with. Other wise i would wrap is all the way around the back of the barn!

 

[PirateGirl]

Honestly it's probably going to be easier construction to cut another hole than to build a predator safe tunnel.

 

[cmom]

I put a second pop door in one of my coops. This is a very old picture.

 

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

I put a second pop door in one of my coops. This is a very old picture.
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So is the run area that comes directly off the coop then opened up to that fenced in area? The have access through both doors and they both lead to the run?

 

[BY Bob]

Thanks for the pic! Just seeing more connection options gets my brain going. I didn’t think about raising the connection up to the coop door like that. Interesting idea!

For me the Porch, as we call it, serves 2 purposes.

1. As you can see I have an automated coop door. That prevents my wife from having to go out in the middle of the winter in order to close them in when I’m not home, among other reasons. What I did not want to have was a ramp to the door. Too many times I’ve had pullets try to roost at the top of the ramp. That would be too dangerous with the potential of a door closing on them.

2. Because of how my coop is oriented, the winter wind blows right at the coop door. I need a way to keep the door open in winter without them freezing to death. I enclose the porch with plexiglass in the winter, thus creating a “Sun Porch”. We find them sunbathing on the porch sometimes in the winter.

It wasn’t that hard to build and they seem to like it. I just wanted to share my reasoning behind why my coop is the way it is.

 

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

I like the idea of adding the plexiglass for a sun porch during the colder months. Makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

 

[BY Bob]

I like the idea of adding the plexiglass for a sun porch during the colder months. Makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

I bought a piece of cracked plexiglass at home depot cheap. I cut it to fit the porch. Saved at least half the price!

 

[aart]

Honestly it's probably going to be easier construction to cut another hole than to build a predator safe tunnel.

Agrees.
I have 2 runs and 2 pop doors.
It's real nice if for when I split coop for integrating new birds.