How to add onto coop ?

[Wildsky]

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I think that would be neat! Perhaps put their feed and water bottles on the outside, with the opening sticking in so they could eat and drink but the bulk of the bottle etc.. would be outside??

Funny dog - why are dogs so gross?

 

[lurky]

Good Luck

 

[hcammack]

my mom likes em moving I have no Idea why violet is so gross but I think I will try the sunroom if there arnt any other brilliant ideas lol

 

[picklespickles]

i vote for the sunroom.

 

[hcammack]

lol it will have to be well ventilated for out summers though mage one side and the top made out of corrugated plastic and the rest of plywood and a wine crate nest box I think this will be my project while the new birds are in my little quarantine.

thanks
Henry

 

[tiffanyh]

I vote sun room too!!!

 

[patandchickens]

Adding a second story may be a problem...

will tend to make tractor much more apt to blow over in winds or storms,

and may well make it too heavy to move.

Why not make a 2nd tractor, same as the first or with any improvements you want, and just have them opening into same pen? Chickens can decide where they want to sleep or you can train them by going out after dark and sorting them the way you want.

If your mom objects to this as being a 2nd tractor not an addition to exusting one, just only ever CALL it 'the addition'... it is a sideways addition dontcha know <g>


Pat

 

[hcammack]

I think that is what I will do make a small tractor big enough for the other girls I am getting she hates the words expansion and addition when it comes to my birds LOL I am going from 6 to 11 in a week so I am keeping them in a Huge dog crate for right now and then mabe I will just make another tractor I am not getting a second one till my birthday because that is when my friends grandfather might build me one.

Henry

 

[S n M Poultry]

You could do somthing like this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=281436#p281436
It works fine for me.

 

[hcammack]

I might do that or I am thinking for the second tractor of getting a dog house.

thanks
Henry