Doghouse chicken coop

[Scrumdidlyump]

Yeah, I use pine. And straw.

Btw, good eye! I had to go back through and look through my own pics. I bet you could always find Waldo.
Yes, that was another lesson learned early on.

 

[MichelleHubs]

Yeah, I use pine. And straw.

That's good, I just noticed the bag of cedar in the photo, and the color of bedding also looked like cedar as well.

 

[Scrumdidlyump]

That's good, I just noticed the bag of cedar in the photo, and the color of bedding also looked like cedar as well.

Right, like I said, this was before the chicks even came out of the brooder, so by the time they went in, I had learned the error of my ways.

 

[Toryhillc]

How many chickens do you have? What kind?Have 15 chickens 3 silkies(2 are roos)and have red x, Plymouth rock,leghorns and australorps. Getting 2 welsh harlequin ducks may 25th so excited about that!

 

[saysfaa]

Lack of airflow!
Wow.... so I live in a valley between the two highest mountains east of the Mississippi, and it is like a wind tunnel. Everything flies off my porch unless I attach it. The chickens often flap around like yhe Wicked Witch just got airborne.
They have been in their lovely doghouse 13 months. I positioned it on the property so it gets a good amount of this wind, which moves well through the ample cracks between the barnwood and the roof. I also made the floor of their roost coop wire so I can clean it out really well, and even though I am technically in a rainforest and 20 feet from a large branch, everything has always been dry

This is a prime example of why rules of thumb are rules of thumb instead of cast iron laws of nature (parden my mixed-metaphorism terms.

 

[3KillerBs]

This is a prime example of why rules of thumb are rules of thumb instead of cast iron laws of nature (parden my mixed-metaphorism terms.

Indeed.

Guidelines are *guidelines*, not hard-and-fast rules.