Has anyone ever commited homicide while building their coop?

[WestKnollAmy]

In reply to the original post on page 1.....
sounds like you are right on track to me!

 

[tygab]

this post has had me in stitches, so thanks everyone!

I've been amazed/envious of all those "see what we built out of nothing in 2 days" type threads. It's not us... we're computer network people, and those skills just don't translate... so we figured we'd start with a "mostly" done structure.

Let me say this project started in May, and involved several of his days off - and that was with a kit that had instructions! DH learned many things from door installation to shingling a roof to fence stapling from his Dad who had more experience which was good. We have made about a dozen trips to HD and local hardware stores. We have puzzled over many possible solutions to problems we never knew existed before, problems that start with questions like "How can this possibly go here/fit/reach/work?" and at least a few times ended in statements like "yeah, I *knew* that wasn't going to go here/fit/reach/work." I'll leave the details of the in-betweens out, but suffice it to say we had many similar moments and set backs to those here.

Somehow we ended up with a thing 3 months later that looks like a decent coop and run; it's not perfect, and we still have a few things left to tweak (ok, FIX) but it's now chicken territory, and our neighbor even told us it was cute. So, I think we've achieved the goal, and hopefully next type of project like this we'll have learned a few things we can apply...

 

[moenmitz]

Awww! You all made me feel so much better! I just got on and posted my very own rant of a similar vein, then I saw THIS thread! BWAHAHA! Thanks for sharing all of your woes, isery loves company!

 

[ziggy]

We saw a picture of the general idea online but H didn't want to buy the plans. We were mostly using reclaimed lumber and plywood from our kids playhouse and swingset. Constantly trying to modify to us the wood that we already had instead of buying more.

We decided to get the chicks first and start building the coop the next weekend.
It took a month (those chick sure got big in four weeks) of every weekend and after work to finish the thing. What a workout. Back and forth to Home Depot.

It's an 8x10 run with covered/shingled roof and elevated hen house at one end. I like it now, but holy cow - I hope that I never have to use a drill driver again.

- we used clear caulk and painted over it lots of it

 

[Their Other Mother]

We got a great deal at HD today. They filled the back of my pickup with cull lumber for the basement bargain price of $60.00! No fighting with DH bc he saw the high prices of regular lumber. He just keeps asking, "Are you sure you can build it with this?''
"Yes Honey"
"How?"
"I can't explaine it!"
"OKaaaay..."

Now I just have to go back in the morning to get a few more things...

 

[Emzyyy]

Im 15 and my dad won't let me build a coop for my 4 chickens because I need help and he's too busy w/ our rental houses. Plus he doesn't trust me w/ his tools. So not fair. He has almost everything. He has even extra brick a whole huge pile I would have a nice one not a eye soreee...but nopeee. He even has a truckful of shingles...I just need helpp. Maybe my neighbor will help me he has like 40 or more chickens. [The biggest fricken things i have ever seen their taller than my kneeesss!!]

 

[WillsMama93]

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Good Luck Emzyyy. I hope you neighbor is happy to help..

I had a patient ask me yesterday if I did anything fun on my vacation.. I said, "ummm, yeah... I tried to build a chicken coop.. and almost killed my family because of it." She and her husband raise several hundred chickens on their land.. and she said "well, if you would have told me, Angela (her DD) and I could have come over and we would have had it built in 2 days!!
I told her if I ever had to expand, I was going to get my women friends to help me!

 

[miss_jayne]

never had an issue with the coop building, BUT...there was almost homicide hanging a border and painting a baby room once....an overdue pregnant lady with no air conditioning in 100+ temps should not be allowed to help her husband decorate anything...

 

[wgcrochet]

my honey and i about kill each other every time we work together on anything

he says he wants me to help him but what he really wants is a gopher. that dont set to well with me

and he has to do everything the hard way.
we bought 8ft 2x4's and i wanted the run to be only 6ft so they needed to be cut so he says i'm gonna put it together first then cut it to size after
he wanted me to help hold the boards i am five foot 2 inches tall like i want to have pieces of 2x4's falling at my head

lets jus say he learned his lesson pretty quick
as he was cutting the boards he pinched his arm in between the two pieces he has a four inch bruse on his arm from it and i laughed at him after not cause he was hurt but because he had to do something so dumb and he never listens to my suggestions till after he gets hurt doing it his way

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think instead of premarital counseling, couples should have to do a building project together. If they have gotten through it with less than 5 runs to Home Depot, less than three major arguments and without saying anything unforgivable to their partner and afterwards can forgive and laugh; then they are qualified to marry. Every project takes more than you anticipate, both in HD runs and in patience. Our mantra was "it's only a chicken coop, we don't have to live in it".

We had scored a free "playhouse" from Academy; it had been assembled, put on display and then vandalized. We brought it home in 4 sections; roof, semi-intact walls and roof. The construction was tongue and groove, held together with glue and 1x2s, then screwed together. After being kicked apart and transported much of the tongue and groove was sprung, and the screws had pulled out. Reassembling our "free" coop and putting a roof back on it was a stone b@$$t, but it did only cost about $65. I nearly called my DH an idiot, only had a few fights, and we can laugh about it now. And the girls have a fine place to sleep.