exsisting coop transformation- help**LOTS OF PICS**

[cluck-addict]

Jen. I'm in Minnesota wayyyy out in the country. So it gets in the 20s below may -50 with a windchill....

I only have a passion for a few breeds so maybe only 2-3 breeding pens.

THe red building is the old grainery and isnt useable but it makes for GREAT shade in the afternoon.

THanks

 

[jenjscott]

OK, nice big pens , I would say 6 to 10 birds each, they'll have to stay inside alot during the winter, I hope you like chanteclers and buckeyes. But, if you build out of panels so that you could take them down, or just open the gates in the winter where they'd have the run of the whole building, you could go a lot more.
The broodies aren't going anywhere so a pen on a shelf will be plenty of space for raising a brood for a while. Also a good size brood would fit on one of those even with insulation around it. I'm just jealous.

 

[cluck-addict]

That is SO COOL> Thanks Jen!!!

 

[newchickmom]

If those fold down shelfs are wire, I would assume they used to have roosts above them? Then they would fold up for cleaning.
Just a guess, but that is how I am going to put mine in.

 

[ColoradoMike]

Amazing building you've got there! Can't wait to see the transformation!

 

[SunshineSteedFarm]

Ooo. Such a big space!

I cant wait to see the transformation. Your chickens are living in paradise!

 

[cluck-addict]

Why thank you

Now i'm just very very worried about how to keep them warm this winter.

 

[LuvinMyPeeps]

I just happened on this post - amazing! You are sooo lucky!!! LOVE the huge coop!!!!

 

[M To The Maxx]

Quote:
Me too!!!!!!

 

[Windrider]

Hi, I've been lurking here for many months trying to figure out if I can possibly fit a few chickens into my tiny beach city lot. But I saw your post and just had to join because, heck...

Never mind that I'm currently a city girl, I run a bustling sailing program out of a teeny 1910 building cough: shack :cough, I garden and have many fruit trees on a tiny beach city lot, and I know how to pack a sailboat for an extended ocean cruise. Figuring out how to get the most use out of any given space is something I am good at!

So here is what I came up with for your lovely barn (wow, do I ever envy the land you folks have in the country). I think with your winters your chickens will have to spend considerable time indoors so I figured you should have oversized breeding pens. I doubted you would ever need all five of those shelves as brooder pens (unles you have silkies

), so I thought maybe remove two and the remaining three could be easily be configured to switch between brooder, broody pen, and hospital as needed. Plus one 4 x 5 shelf is big enough to subdivide into a couple broody pens if needed.