Helpful hints for building coops

[CapricornFarm]

Excellent Cappy!

Thank you! The plan is to put up 2 more walls tomorrow. We will see.

 

[jvls1942]

good morning,
I is nice to have someone to help with the building. two people can get so much more accomplished ..
I decided that I need a good work bench for building the green house frames. So I am going to build a good set of saw horses. it seems that the ones I have are always busy doing something else.
big storm coming this afternoon. 60mph winds and hail. I hope it fizzles out before it leaves Minn..
I got the leaky pipe taped with gorilla tape.
It dripped for about 12 hours and I collected just a couple of quarts in the bucket. that should buy me enough time to get a piece of tubing prepared to splice into the line.
.....jiminwisc...
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[3KillerBs]

Can't have too many sawhorses.

 

[3KillerBs]

My coop now has inhabitants. We put a piece of plywood across the bottom of the access door so that they'll have a harder time jumping out when being attended to.

 

[CapricornFarm]

All 4 walls up!

 

[3KillerBs]

All 4 walls up!
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Those are some serious corner posts!

 

[3KillerBs]

A photo of the escape-slowdown board.

I have it propped with bricks. DH offered to put in a couple screws but I explained that I wouldn't be able to pull it out to clean.

Tomorrow we will construct a short fence of hardware cloth around the access door end as further escape deterrence because I'm afraid of a chick going under shed the coop is next to -- an 8" gap where we couldn't possibly reach it.

 

[Sarkchick]

My coop now has inhabitants. We put a piece of plywood across the bottom of the access door so that they'll have a harder time jumping out when being attended to.

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So frickin cute. Love the one with back to us. Yellow with dark wings.

 

[3KillerBs]

So frickin cute. Love the one with back to us. Yellow with dark wings.

That's the bigger Light Brahma. IMO the Columbian pattern is absolution gorgeous.

 

[aart]

Love the look of Light Brahma!
Big eaters tho and not the greatest layers.
Sold mine as pets as they were very friendly.