Hoop house.

[briana1975]

We built our first hoop house. This will make raising meat turkeys or chickens easier in the warm spring and summer weather. I am a little worried about just the chicken wire and am thinking about getting an solor powered electric fence for around the bottom. We do have the live trap out and nothing so far this year. Hopefully the racoons will stay away. The BB Bronze turkeys love it.

 

[MotherJean]

That looks great. Am considering make one for my hens so I can get them out of the run and (sort of) range them in the grass in good weather. Two questions:
1. Can this be moved by one person or does it require a garden tractor to drag it from place to place?
2. Do you have a lot of windy days? How well does the tarp hold up to that?

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Do a board search on "hoop houses." There have been several good threads.

.....Alan.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Looks great I made one a few months back and my cornish x and turkeys have done great in it.. We even had wind gusts up to 70 mph last week and not one thing moved.. It is a pain to move by myself but not unbearable...

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Looks great Briana! I can't wait till we get ours done.

 

[briana1975]

I was just out moving it by myself. Considering I am a 5' tall women, almost anyone should be able to move it if I can. I didn't just move it forward either, I moved it forward back up to next spot and turned it back east to west all by myself. I am calling that my workout for the day.

We have already had 2 short thunderstorms go threw. Some pretty good winds and so far so good.

Honestly the tarp was $12.00 at Big Lots, so if we have to replace it each year it's not to bad.

 

[Megs]

lovely hoop coop

just built myself one similar with old trampoline/swing frame

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

Quote:
We love our hoop houses

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/4hpoultry/t02_pageview/Hoop_House.htm

 

[turtlebird]

Could you please list the dimensions of your hoop house? We have been thinking about building one like this for a bit.....but i was always worried about the wind lifting it like a kite. But you say no, so we'd love to give it a go! Are those cattle panels on the top?
Thanks! Looks great!

 

[jBlaze]

This hoop house looks very nice.

OUrs don't look so nice, lol. We made the first 8x8. The door was harder than I had counted on! The next one we did is 8 by oh, probably 24. I had DH make the door for that! It is attached to the tuffshed coop at the other end. The long one caved in the snow, the short one only got a little flat on the top, because of the overlap of the cattle pannels was stronger.

My mini poodle is able to find ways through the chicken wire, I have added some scrap boards and hardware cloth to keep her out. LOL, she is after the scraps I give the birds, not the birds, thank goodness.