Does anyone have pics of coop/run using chain-link dog run?

[mmaddie's mom]

I have 2 6x12 chain-link dog runs w/a chain-link panel for the covering each.

Right now I have my birds in one run in the car-port with an old dog house for shelter... I would like to move my birds and upgrade and fortify this Spring.

We are brainstorming and would be interested in what some of you have done with a similiar chain-link runs. Dog house is too small now and would need to either buy or build (?!?!?) a new coop.

Any ideas and/or pics would be appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[sab]

Sounds like you are exactly where we are at. We have 10 sections of 6ft. high kennel surrounding our chicken tractor - covered it for the winter with a PVC pitched roof and placed a tarp over it - so far it's working ok - I have to go out and scrap the snow when we have a deep one but it's working out ok. Come spring though I am getting ready! .... I have already bought the windows and a clear dome for the roof. The new coop will be at least 8x8 --- likely 8x12. I'm planning to take the existing kennel panels and line them long off the back of the coop -- as in 5ft (1 section) by 25 ft (5 sections on each side) for the run. I just ordered the poultry netting that was recommended in another thread. I even have my sign for above the door ready to go. Those birds will be "movin' on up - to the East Side" ....

 

[gavinandallison]

go to my BYC page, our run is chain link dog kennel panels, and I am getting more tonight along with 2 roof sections. I then wrap hardwire cloth around the bottom 2 feet to make it predator proof. Hope you like what we did!

 

[perchie.girl]

mmaddie's mom :

I have 2 6x12 chain-link dog runs w/a chain-link panel for the covering each.

Right now I have my birds in one run in the car-port with an old dog house for shelter... I would like to move my birds and upgrade and fortify this Spring.

We are brainstorming and would be interested in what some of you have done with a similiar chain-link runs. Dog house is too small now and would need to either buy or build (?!?!?) a new coop.

Any ideas and/or pics would be appreciated!

Thanks!

I am building a coop that is all dog run chainlink panels it will be 24 x 18. It will have three 6 x 12 one 6 x 18 runs. Three areas for chickens and the last one for a big flock of Guineas. There will be a 6 x 18 area that will serve as storage and act as an airlock so that I can get into the pens without worrying about them getting outside. Mind you I am in the desert and this will be a mostly open air coop. There will be yard access for the chickens as well I havent figured that one out. I suggest you line all the exterior parts of the chainlink with chicken wire or small mesh wire cloth to keep preditors out. Then extend that wire down into the ground... for digging preditors. My eventual solution for that will be Stall mats. We dont have Mink and weasels but we do have racoons, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, and feral dogs all will grab a head or foot and pull it through the chicken wire.

When I built Moms Aviary I used 1/2 inch diameter chicken wire or when it gets that small its called aviary wire. I havent seen that in a very long time. She was raising finches and a small snake still got in there and ate all the eggs. LOL then it was too fat to get back out.

I am going to do a chicken wire roof too before I put the tarp over the whole thing. (summer temps 90-115) But you could easily do a wood roof or wood partial roof. You can attach wood by using straps to two by fours then build your roof the old fashioned way. I cant climb a ladder or I would do that myself. Very interesting thing about chainlink a 2 x 3 will fit quite nicely and firmly into the openings in the wire. I made perches that way on my last one. even used one of those to set my nest boxes on.

You might consider building a wood coop on the end of the runs so your birds will be warm cozy and preditor safe during the night. I will be doing only a wind break on two sides of mine. I cant start yet or I would have decent pictures for you. I do have some pictures of my old coop here on my BYC site. Picture it with a tarp over the top of the whole thing.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=72852

good luck​

 

[Higins00]

I bought a dog fence that the owners had a hole cut out with the dog house on the outside of the fence because the dogs would jump onto the house and then over the fence. So I put my coop on the outside. I have a dog house too on another side, i leave it there when I introduce new chickens and it's good for when it rains. Can't see it too well with all the snow but I tried. Chickens are in the barn for the winter.

 

[ruthless]

Here is another thread with chain link enclosures.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=422612

 

[cfdf]

I have dog runs on both sides of my coop. Check out my BYC page. I put hardware cloth around the bottom 2'feet of the fence. I put bird netting over the top of one side and on the other side we put chicken wire on top. The chickens are locked up in the coop at night. So far it has worked out great for us.

 

[mmaddie's mom]

Thanks... I'm getting some great ideas! That's what I love about brainstorming... 2 heads (or 6 or 10 or 18... ) are always better than one!

? I'm thinking that the coop itself will take one whole short side of the run... the run itself being 6 x 24 with the run door on the oppisite short end of the run.

Do you think the coop should go outside the run with only the front of it in the run... or... should it be actually inside the run with the chain link all around it.

The upside of the outside the chain-link coop would be easier access, since I would put a people door and nesting boxes on the back(outside) of the coop... and more space inside the run.

The upside of it being completely inside the chain-link would be better protection... but less space inside the run and I would have to go inside the run to get to the people door and nesting boxes (they would have to be set on the front side of the coop). ?

? Thoughts ?

 

[debid]

We have six 8' wide by 6' tall panels. I'm thinking we're going to set up three 2-panel sides and then use the coop as the fourth side. I'll angle the two panels nearest the coop a bit and then fill the remaining gap with the same smaller-hole hardware cloth that I'm skirting the run with -- attaching it securely to the coop itself and the panels all of the way around. I hope that this will keep critters like rats from climbing the building and then gaining access though the chain link. Who knows, maybe they'll just climb the wire too? Dang rats. We have a "barn cat" and she'll be doing her best, I'm sure.

I'm "roofing" the rest of the run in hex poultry wire (since I have lots of that lying around) to keep the owls and hawks out and putting down some rolled fencing for an apron to prevent digging under. It will be as close to Fort Knox as I can manage because I'd love for them to have roosts in the run that they can use on those hot summer nights rather than being locked in the coop.