Coops/runs on hilly terrain

[serendip]

So many of the coops/runs that I see are featured on flat ground.

If your coop/run is situation on a hilly area or on an incline, I'd really like to see pictures of it and how you dealt with the change in gradient!

Any other hints on dealing with a change in gradient would be appreciated.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I'm going to be attempting this, this weekend. Most of my property is on an incline. We have very little flat land.

Our main coop is located in the barn so no problem there but my bantam cochin coop and my polish coop will be on the incline.

Laurie

 

[speckledhen]

This shows that we are on top of a big hill/small mtn.

These show the backside of the main coop:

 

[Sissy]

Cyn. great job on the coops and run.
we too are dealing with
hilly property.one day soon I hope to learn to get
my pics. from my camera to my puter and show what we have done .

 

[CoopCrazy]

Luckily my coop was on the one flat spot but you can see how I did the run in panels so anytime I move it I can just adjust them into position ..

 

[rhondapiper]

There's not a flat spot anywhere on my entire 2 acres. We situated the coop in a nice shady spot, leveled it up on pavers, and had 8 tons of crushed gravel/reclaimed asphalt delivered to flatten out the run.

After carting all the rock in and leveling it, we now have a flat surface over which we are going to set up the run, and plan to cover the asphalt with fill dirt as I'm not 100% sure it was the safest choice to have around chickens, but it packed well and made a nice, stable, flat patch of ground that wouldn't just run off in the rain.

I'm very happy with the result, but won't have pics for another week or so as we're still under construction. I am concerned about the safety of the asphalt, but read online that asphalt is used in commercial poultry settings, so I'm hoping it is ok. We turned a 10X20 foot area that was steeply graded into a nice flat area that should drain well. The rock is about 4 inches deep at the front and 2 feet deep at the back. It was a lot of work! The cost wasn't too bad, 200 bucks delivered, with about 75% of the cost in the delivery.

 

[greyhorsewoman]

Everything here is a 'hill' and are of them are 'up' !!

 

[NellaBean]

My whole property is on an incline as well.

I hate building on hills.

I ended up adding 2 foot to make it 6 feet tall and just have a tarp over it for now, for shelter from rain and shade from the sun. As you can see, I also redid the "shed" portion to make their new coop.

The pen is 8x8 and the coop ix 8x8. I have added t-posts behind it and will be adding an additional 24x16 pen onto it, using t-posts and 2x2" woven kennel fencing. I think I only have the posts for 16x16 so far, need to add a few more.

We also just refenced a half acre with horse and goat fencing. Lots of changes in incline. My recommendation? Move to flat property

With major changes in incline, we would cut the part of the wire that "bulges", overlap it to take out the "slack" and then rewire back together. I don't have pics of it, but could take some later tonight. This was on the perimeter fence, which was 4 feet woven wire on t-posts. The same idea will apply when I make the extended chicken pen.

 

[Sissy]

you sure did a great job.
We to are having the same problem
with building our third coop and run.
with an incline.