Covered Coop

[deegee68]

I am bring this thread back to life with another question. I have it all cleaned out and nesting boxes installed and nice roosting bars. I was wondering if I need to make some sort of covers for the windows. I will get an eventual rain storm and snow in the winter. I wanted to put hinged plywood over so that I can open and close, but I am having a heck of a time installing hinges on the metal siding. Any suggestions?

 

[Ted Brown]

Get some wooden squares larger than your hinges, get a friend to hold it inside while you screw or bolt the hinge to the wood.

BTW Great effort to clear things out!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

BEsides the shutters, the windows are covered with hardware cloth to keep predators out, right?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Get some wooden squares larger than your hinges, get a friend to hold it inside while you screw or bolt the hinge to the wood.

A favorite technique. I consider it creating a sandwich with the wood and hinge as the slices of bread and the metal as the sandwich filling. This gives you something to screw to and stiffens the metal in that area a lot.

 

[deegee68]

It is completed. Thanks for all of the help along the way.

 

[deegee68]

Finally got around to adding a small run.

 

[deegee68]

I finally got around to adding a small run

 

[2 Acres]

Hello,

I am a California native that recently moved with the Wife to Iowa. We bought an acreage and it has a chicken coop that was covered with metal siding. From the inside, I can see windows on all walls and a board along the wall I think might have held nesting boxes. I was thinking about cutting out the metal siding around the windows, using hardware cloth to cover and making hinged doors to close if need be. Is there anything else I should cut in addition to the windows? I was thinking some circle holes across the top for ventilation.

Also, there are about 25 bales of shredded paper in there, I am trying to get rid of by recylcing. Many of them had petrified chicken poop on it. I will not get my chicks until Feb 24th, any suggestions on what to do to inside to get it clean of any potential bad stuff in there?

Thanks!

If you are cleaning out the "poop coop" wear a mask. Histoplasmosis is a real threat for humans. It can be deadly.