How much pdz?

[jthornton]

You mean no filler on the floor under the roost area (I looked at your "My Coop" pictures titled poop_board).

I assume you also use pine chips in the coop area?

Well I don't really have a "coop" in the sense of the word, rather I ended up with a roost box which was a coop design from Home Depot and under the roost box and in the run I have pine chips. Here is the roost box with PDZ in it. I made some removable ends to keep the PDZ in and when I need to crawl inside to do something I can take them out.



This is the run and under the roost box.



I'm working on converting my garden shed into a coop for some Cinnamon Queens I hope to get this year. The plan there is to have solid walls up a foot or more on the dividing wall and a board in front of the door to keep the pine chips in. They will get the back half of the 12' x 16' shed.

Here is a progress photo showing the roost and poop board table. I did not build it into the structure because I wanted flexibility to move it if I didn't like where it is. Speaking of flexibility I use screws to build most things because it's much easier to change your mind and take it apart after you watch it in action and there have been many changes over the last 2 1/2 years of chicken ranching.



JT

 

[Ted Brown]

@jthornton Thanks.

Is your roost box what is pictured in the coop series link of your "My Coop"?

Re flexibility - Funny you should mention using screws. I do the same for most of my building except where shear strength is needed. I have been debating about using screws on my Woods KD coop build, the main reasons against were the screw heads are much more visible than air driven nails and install time. I finally realized I could hide the screw heads under the battens so will try that out, time not high on my retired priority list.

 

[jthornton]

Is your roost box what is pictured in the coop series link of your "My Coop"?

Yes those are the build photos of what I thought was going to be a coop. I just uploaded a few newer photos showing all the changes I did while sorting out that my coop was a very poor design. I wish I had known about the Woods coop and Hoop coop before I built what I have now. It did work out in the end after much trial and error.

I've been self employed for the last 15 years but lately it's more like self unemployed lol but the closer I get to getting my SS check each month the less I worry about paying jobs and the more time I spend on fun work.

JT

 

[workindog]

Nah their poops are big enough to get caught in the hardware cloth tho that being said, if i had the smaller holed stuff on hand i would have used that.