Housing on sloped land

[joan1708]

I'm also on a slope. It's turning out to be a bit of a problem with my run. I terraced it, but have a lower level that is steep and it looks dangerous to me, like a chicken could get stuck in some way down there. I don't want to fill it in because that would create a dam effect in the adjacent yard. I can't really explain what I want to do. I will take pictures Tuesday and show you. I'm going to try to "cantilever" a floor that is even with the upper level and to the back wall of the run. If you look at the pictures on my page, I do have one posted showing the slope.

 

[mtnhens4]

Our coop is 4x6 and the run is 15x6. Plenty of room for our 4-6 hens and VERY secure. My DH worked very hard on the dutch door and I love it, not easy with all of the funky angles. The run roof is Sun Tuf and smoke colored which helps to keep everything dry and offers some protection from the sun, when it's hot the girls all hang out under the coop.

 

[speckledhen]

Now that Nifty and I have fixed the issues with my coop page construction photos (which somehow were messed up in the site conversion), the link is in my sig line. There are tons of photos all during construction if you're interested. Check my sig line, bottom left.

 

[CupOJoe42]

My coop is built on a slope.

 

[shella]

My coop is built on a slope.

that exacly how mine slopes. do you have picture on how you set the posts leval oh heck have you got pictures of the biuld. i love your coop

never thought i could get away with building one like that.
mine will be made out of pallets. how big is your coop

 

[Chemguy]

I only had slopes to choose from, so I chose the lowest grade available that was close to the house. The coop was raised, so we built a sloped roof for the run rather than go straight out from the coop and have to buy posts longer than the usual 10 ft. length for the end of the run. The slope turns out to be great for drainage, but I hadn't planned on that. Here's a pic that shows the slope well, from before I finsihed up the yard:

 

[Chemguy]

The front was about 1 foot off the ground and I'm not sure about the back, maybe 2 feet. When you have a slope like that, you really need a good level. It will look weird to you, even appearing to be raised up at the back end-trick of the eye with the slope, but a level will insure you have a solid, level foundation.

This is what I found, too. I must have spent a half day convincing myself that everything was level. I swore up and down that something was off, but it wasn't. Now, don't go asking me if everything was square....that's a different story. But, it is level by golly.

 

[speckledhen]

LOL, gotta use a level for sure on a slope! I kept putting the level on every corner and every side, just to make sure I wasn't crazy, that the back end wasn't sticking up in the air, but nope, just an optical illusion, or as the old comedian Norm Crosby would say, an "obstacle delusion"

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[Chemguy]

I wound up using a 'regular' level, a string level and a post-level. Once I learned to trust the levels and not my eyes, things went very smoothly.

 

[Carols Clucks]

I played the "this does not look level" game all day working on some salvaged fencing, it is interesting to see my level fence compared to the following the slope neighbors fencing. This is for a garden and I have leveled the garden pretty well. But I sure checked and rechecked and rerechecked today