Love what your doing! The two sided feeder, the window idea.... wonderful!Well I have been delayed making anymore real progress thanks to shipping errors
My black hardware cloth I ordered from Lowe's arrived yesterday and I was so excited to finally get started and opened the box and it was NOT black. I thought about keeping it and just painting it with Flexseal, but opted to return it and order from Amazon. Flexseal is pricey. I was very disappointed! So the new cloth is due to arrive tomorrow, so fingers crossed.
I also ordered a feeder that you can fill from the outside, but feeds on the inside if you put a hole in the wall and it holds 50 lbs of crumble! BUT the sent me the normal one that needs to be installed inside the coop instead. Soooo, now I have to wait for that too! Sigh haha. They got back to me right away and are sending me the right one, but it's just a bummer. On the upside, I think it's going to work out perfect when I get the right one. It's so big, my plan is to split it between both sides of the Cooplex. I tested it out since I have it here with one of my d’Anvers and it seems plenty big enough on each side for the size and amount of birds I’ll have in each side of the coop. I am also going to paint the lid black and body gold so it matches my color scheme.It’s very sturdy!
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My nest boxes are finished drying and I think they look awesome.
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While waiting for the next step I tried my hand at a window prototype and I decided I’m not quite ready for window building!The typical small windows for coops are too big for my coop, so I have to come up with something myself. The glue was messy, my cuts were slightly off because I don't have fancy tools, and everything looked crooked
. So I was trying to come up with another idea that would allow me to close the window in winter and keep it open all summer to increase ventilation. I think I’ve come up with an idea that might work! I had some picture frames from IKEA that I never used and totally forgot about till perusing the IKEA website for inspiration, and they just might work!
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It has this inner square frame that holds the glass in place and creates depth. So I bought some small hinges and I’m going to try using the outer frame with the glass glued in as the glass window, and add a hinge to secure to the siding. Then I will attach hardware cloth inside the siding. So I’m spray painting the frame gold and then gluing in the glass with the clear adhesive. Fingers crossed this works! I’m gonna use the inner frame as the frame to close the window onto for more stability. We shall see how it comes together. If nothing else I will do the hardware cloth first and solve the window covering later. We will be out of the bad weather really soon I’m guessing.
Tonight I will finish up all the painting for the siding so it's ready to be cut by tomorrow or Sunday! Tomorrow we will be adding the legs to the floor and the base to the floor so the frame can be secured entirely and we can get final measurements for the siding! I'm hoping that we will have a bunch done by the end of the weekend.
You're going to have a gorgeous and good coop when you're done!
