I've been working on remodeling an old garden shed into a coop for my girls. I decided to use it because it's a big (6' x 11' x 12' tall) sturdy building with a good floor, roof and ventilated eaves. When I started it was full of junk and had boards & nails sticking out everywhere. The previous owners of the property used left overs from building their house to "finish" the interior with drywall & old acoustic type ceiling tiles on the walls. It was well insulated (for a shed) but not chicken friendly. The windows are literally built into the frame of the building and do not open so they're for light only. The exterior was peeling white paint with faded sage green door & shutters.
I stripped the inside of everything but the shelf brackets and recycled lots of things around the farm to redo the inside. I sealed the floor, painted the walls, put up a shelf to hold nest boxes, put in a long perch, put metal fencing on the inside of the windows, put metal roofing material on the walls as high as 3' (to keep the girls from eating the aforementioned drywall & ceiling tiles), installed an exhaust fan, hung a box fan in the rafters and painted the exterior, made the door a "dutch door" so the girls can get in and out and replaced all the door hardware (hopefully it's tall enough at 5' to keep predators out if I'm not home before dark to shut the top door!).
Day #1
Almost ready for paint
Done!
The outside, now painted to match the new barn! (If you look closely you can see that the door is 2 parts)
The "chicklets" in their new home! (They're 5 weeks old.)
I stripped the inside of everything but the shelf brackets and recycled lots of things around the farm to redo the inside. I sealed the floor, painted the walls, put up a shelf to hold nest boxes, put in a long perch, put metal fencing on the inside of the windows, put metal roofing material on the walls as high as 3' (to keep the girls from eating the aforementioned drywall & ceiling tiles), installed an exhaust fan, hung a box fan in the rafters and painted the exterior, made the door a "dutch door" so the girls can get in and out and replaced all the door hardware (hopefully it's tall enough at 5' to keep predators out if I'm not home before dark to shut the top door!).
Day #1
Almost ready for paint
Done!
The outside, now painted to match the new barn! (If you look closely you can see that the door is 2 parts)
The "chicklets" in their new home! (They're 5 weeks old.)
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