Das Hühnerhaus

[Alabama Jack]

I picked up a really useful tool at Lowe's it is a rotary cutter that is great for cutting hardware cloth. It is made by Skill and is cordless it made my last coop project go really smoothly. It was around $30. But well worth it. I will take a picture of it and post it tomorrow.

Please do, thanks!

 

[Brookliner]

This tool has cut wardware cloth and polycarbonate corraguted roofing for me. works great and should be in the tool box of anyone building a coop.

 

[lereg15]

Love the coop, Jack. Plenty of ideas in your posts too!! Thank you!

 

[Alabama Jack]

This tool has cut wardware cloth and polycarbonate corraguted roofing for me. works great and should be in the tool box of anyone building a coop.

Looks like I need a new tool! Thanks!

 

[Alabama Jack]

Love the coop, Jack. Plenty of ideas in your posts too!! Thank you!

Thanks so much, I stole most of the ideas, but am stoked on how it turned out.

 

[Alabama Jack]

More progress on the extended run. Need to put HW cloth on top and then the pergola rafters.

 

[aart]

SaaaaaWEET!!!

 

[Alabama Jack]

SaaaaaWEET!!!

Thanks aart! I can't wait to finish this thing. I have a project car that needs some attention.

 

[Alabama Jack]

Got a bunch more done this weekend. Got all the HW cloth up and all but one pergola rafter in place, although only one is fastened down. Came up with a trick for hanging overhead HW cloth. I temporarily fastened a 2x4 to the HW cloth down the middle, and then put it up on the roof and took the 2x4 off after it was stapled down.





After @Achap-henrow recommended a pitch fork, I started looking for a smaller version. Came up with this, and it worked awesome for stretching the HW cloth:



Still a work in progress...







Used mending plates to get the 2x6's long enough. Didn't want to have to haul 20 ft 2x6's in my truck... Still need to trim some of the HW cloth.



View from the neighbors yard.


We plan to paint the pergola white, once the pressure treated wood has seasoned some. We'll see...



Picture from the main yard. This area wasn't fenced in last year. We extended the privacy fence to enclose an area behind MY detached garage. (wanted to emphasize MY so no one (DW) gets confused)


View of the coop from the deck attached to the house. Pretty far away. DW is cutting a path along the edge of MY detached garage to make a pathway to the chickens.



Can't wait for the landscaping to be finished...



Chicks got to "free range" (more like "mud range") for the first time. Interesting how they all went into their extended run and stayed there for quite a while. I guess the pergola rafters gave them a sense of "cover." We marveled and google eyed at the chicken TV for an hour. So happy. cue Pharrell....



Nighttime pic, putting the girls to bed.

 

[cwrite]

It's looking great & fits really well into the spot you chose for it, particularly when you look at it from further away.

The trees should also help keep the dust down a bit.