first coop build - suggestions welcome

[aart]

Quote: Broody breaker cage 24x18



4' of 6x16 coop temporarily walled off to brood chicks.
Has separate people door and pop door to separate run.
Tiny doors in wall allow for early integration with main flock.

 

[luncharm]

Finally some progress. Chickens are too big to be inside. After this is floor and framing for doors, windows, ventilation. Then coop roof I guess. Then doors, windows, amenities. Hopefully I can finish up the coop pretty much all the way before doing the run.

 

[luncharm]

Floor's in. Nest boxes will be on those extended joists. Duck under deck.



We're framing it in like a house. It will be a regular roof with heavy shingles, so I may be nervous about supporting everything well. Also, anything to keep the predators out like bears and charging rhinos.



Next is the roof and framing the nest boxes. All these studs were scrap a fence builder gave me. Floor is mostly some old 1x5s he had. Posts and 2x6s are new.




Chickens are now so big they collapsed the walls of their cardboard brooder today.