Coop resurrection-Update 6/9-Moved in and mostly DONE!

[ShanCarl1971]

I'm totally SPEECHLESS!!!!!! (and for me, that's a feat!!) OMG!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bryan99705]

Keep up the good work

 

[chicken995]

Not quite done. Gotta still do a little work with the run, but it is close enough that the chicks moved in!!!

A few pictures of the chicks (dubbed the "Flock of Divas" by my wife and I) checking out their new digs, and the camera.

Beyonce the black star.

SLW-still no name

Katy (as long as she really is a hen, those tail feathers have me nervous)-California White

Prince-Black Australorp Roo. Yeah, he's named after the singer.

Prince and Beyonce checking out the camera.

 

[bobbi-j]

Beautiful coop! Nice job!

 

[perchie.girl]

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This last one captioned..... "Ooooh Shiny....."

Reallly fantastic job there I am making notes for my own.

 

[penny32507]

"Well done."
Thank you so much for sharing and showing us the way...

 

[urbancountrygal]

Hats off to you. Awesome awesome!!!

 

[RustyHen]

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Umm..roof is already on

. I didn't cut any new holes, i just went with the existing one. I figured if one vent got the job done 90 years ago (coop was built in 1920), it would work now. How about some gable-end vents on the sides? I really don't plan on having many birds for how big that coop is. Four maybe up to 6.

This roof is actually facing the west, and there are windows in the front on the east side. Not super cold country. Northeastern Colorado Piedmont. That area that isn't quite the Great Plains, but isn't quite the Rocky Mountains either.

That top vent was probablly for the old type brooders they ran on kerosene and had vent stacks so the chicks would not die from the fumes, when I was a kid in the 50's we bought a farm and had to use them in the chicken house no electricty out there.Only in the kitchen, my dad did a lot of pluming and wiring in that old ranch house, but I loved every minuite of it and wish I could have given my kids a taste of what it was like then. Sorry to jump in here.

 

[Lark Rise]

That's just incredible!

 

[chicken995]

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Umm..roof is already on

. I didn't cut any new holes, i just went with the existing one. I figured if one vent got the job done 90 years ago (coop was built in 1920), it would work now. How about some gable-end vents on the sides? I really don't plan on having many birds for how big that coop is. Four maybe up to 6.

This roof is actually facing the west, and there are windows in the front on the east side. Not super cold country. Northeastern Colorado Piedmont. That area that isn't quite the Great Plains, but isn't quite the Rocky Mountains either.

That top vent was probablly for the old type brooders they ran on kerosene and had vent stacks so the chicks would not die from the fumes, when I was a kid in the 50's we bought a farm and had to use them in the chicken house no electricty out there.Only in the kitchen, my dad did a lot of pluming and wiring in that old ranch house, but I loved every minuite of it and wish I could have given my kids a taste of what it was like then. Sorry to jump in here.

Cool, thanks for the info. That makes a lot of sense.