Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[maryhysong]

Does anyone have any pictures of their hoop houses? I want to separate multiple pairs from my flock for breeding next spring. These sound like a inexpensive way to do it.

Here's my blog page on building mine http://edible-garden.blogspot.com/p/building-hoop-coop-brooder-house.html

 

[mstricer]

Its now covered with wire and a tarp. This is what I am using for my d'Uccle run. But have used it for a grow out pen for chicks and meaties. I have 2 others but don't have pictures. The others are a little heavier due to I used 2x4's and wire for base and PVC for the tops, covered with tarps. One has a man door, the other I have to crawl in to and use only for a grow out for chicks

 

[cochins1088]

Its now covered with wire and a tarp. This is what I am using for my d'Uccle run. But have used it for a grow out pen for chicks and meaties. I have 2 others but don't have pictures. The others are a little heavier due to I used 2x4's and wire for base and PVC for the tops, covered with tarps. One has a man door, the other I have to crawl in to and use only for a grow out for chicks

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Thanks for sharing mstricer and maryhysong! They both look great!

 

[loveourbirds]

I've had my hoop house run for 3 years I'm in northern Ohio and it does fine. I have it covered with plastic so my d'Uccles can get sun and in the winter the sides get insulated with snow. It works well for me. I'm using another one for a quarantine house for 2 Black AM pullets that I got at Ohio Nationals, they are doing fine in it. The sides are made of wood and the top is made of PVC hooped so rain and snow runs off. I have a black tarp to retain sun heat, but here in northern Ohio the sun never shines.

i used a different method on building, your method does look like it may work better. i used pvc and made a similar type to the run pens i made out of wood, using different fittings. where the fittings went together was the issue, you have eliminated that.

 

[scooter16]

Maryhysong--how is it predator proof when encased in plastic? Is this enough to keep critters out? Scooter16

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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what has the judge thought? so good of him to stop by! Send him up here please! lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I wonder too about plastic and chickens, Mine eat any plastic thin enough, just keep pecking at it till its shredded, so I assume it has to be tarp or like thickness?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Tarps Sally. Unless you can find scrap roofing tin or galv-alum

I am in the Mnts and they are in trees, and the runs are fairly large. my guess is at least 30x25 perhaps more : ( I dont want small stinky gross runs either! and netting will collect all tree debri and when your in the mnts and have a storm or even nice wind we get alot of crap everywhere.

 

[loveourbirds]

recipe for using plastic:

put poultry netting on the inside of the structure frame, 2 layers thick offsetting the holes as much as possible. put the plastic on the outside of the frame, use wood strips around the edges to secure it. pull it tight, the more movement it has the faster it will wear. if your using a peaked roof, put a strip on the top of the peak, a piece of larger diameter plastic pipe helps alot with the wear.

i have not seen it locally, but i have seen people talk on here about poultry netting (maybe for quail?) that has a 1/2 inch weave instead of 1". im guessing you could use that, you just want to keep them from getting their heads through.

 

[loveourbirds]

by covered, do you mean that you want to stop predators/bird exposure or do you mean totally covered as to dry the ground?

edited to add: this was directed at sally, i thought i had quoted LOL.