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[Mamatomany123]

We are extending our chicken coop. The original is an old playhouse that I've secured. It's worked and is a good size but we want to make it bigger because while summer is fine some winters we get snow and we get tons of rain some years. I want to have it big enough in case the girls have to be locked up for a day. So our current coop is 5x5. We are planning on extending back to that metal pole (using it as extra support) about 4.5 feet and 5 ft wide. We are also using that metal pole to help angle the roof so that any rain will fall down. The only thing screwed in so far are those 4x4s. We have them attached into the cement. Everything else is just laying there while we plan. So any suggestions? I'm not sure if I want to leave the bottom open because I would hate if they layed eggs under there but IF I leave it open we will cover it with hardware cloth.

Also want to add it's for 7 production blues (RIR and australorp mixes.) We are also going to remove that back panel of the playhouse and attach to that.

 

[OlympicChick]

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[Mamatomany123]

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[OlympicChick]

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[aart]

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But now we want to know what you ended up doing

 

[Mamatomany123]

But now we want to know what you ended up doing

We ended up leaving the bottom open for them. Im glad we did because it provides nice shade for them when it's hot outside. I guess I dont have a recent pic. Here when we finished and i realized we were out of hardware cloth. I covered the openings with bird netting but thankfully ended up finding just enough HC left over to cover them up and cover the bottom. Our only problem right now is the bottom of the run. I need to apron it out but it will be almost a month before any HC gets here. And I obviously cant bury it because cement. Not shown in this picture I have some bigger stones for now but I'm hoping the HC comes in sooner than they're saying. I'm also going to try and see if I could move the existing HC down a bit and let it apron out. Not sure yet.