I dont see any coops built out of corrigated metal???

[Kat's Silly Chickens]

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Yes I'm just south of Burleson, my son lives in Bonham not far from you. And my dad lives in Boxonna/Annonna.

3 sides of our coop and the roof have the metal, and on the inside separating the coop from the storage barn has chicken wire on it. We put wood panels on that for the winter, and took 1 panel off for ventilation for summer, the chicken wire side faces north/northwest so a good breeze blows thru there often.
Before we got the chickens, my son's cat stayed out there, she didn't like being in the house but I wouldn't let her out to run loose (no front claws). It stayed fairly cool even when we hit in the 100's. It has trees around it for shade which helped keep it cooler in the summer.

7L Farm
It looks like your coop and run will work just great, for the area you're in if I recall you have wind blowing thru there nearly year-round.

Good luck with your adventure.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

FL here, my entire coop is made of metal. It is also set under a large ok tree and a bnch of palm trees for shade. There are 2 poop doors, 1 human door, 2 windows, 3 vents plus a large garage roll up door that can be opened during the httest summer months. everyone has done very well in it. Their runs also are half covred in shade cloth.

 

[Joz]

I plan on building a wee run with 4x4's, fully covered in Hardware cloth, with a corrugated metal roof. For the "coop", I was going to put corrugated metal on 2 sides of one corner/end, just to offer some visual protection and enclosure. Otherwise, I'm leaving it wide open.

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[daver]

I think that the two previous posts pretty much cover it. My thought is a three sided coop with wire on the fourth side.

 

[bburn]

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I think I have pictures on my page of our first one.

Made from corragated metal from an old barn that fell down. DH framed the first one with 2x4's and then used the metal. The second one that was an add on to make a second coop....the duplex now....we used cedar trees and then 2x4s.

They work great. I am in Arkansas and we do have winter weather but my chickens made it through the winter fine. And for us....the metla was free. The Coop is turned so that in hot weather we get a wonderful cross breeze through the coop. We also have alternate sources of shade in the run. But even here it does not get too hot for them.

 

[Robert Boyd]

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HEREs my plan for now:^} (I think)

I have found 6 14 ft trailer house trusses, for the roof, I should easily be able to convert these to 16 ft, with some 9 ft studs Ive gathered.
Ive collected 26 good pallets "16 for the corners" and 8 for the middle part of the walls,

this should make it 16 by 10 feet with a small overhang.
It will have dirt floor.
Ill build it 4 feet from the 16 by 20 run, and tie it in giving us a 24 by 16 run, and 160 sq ft coop for no more than thirty birds.

time to start building:^} unless someone sees a problem.....

 

[Want Less]

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Our first coop (a tractor) was made from old barn metal we had. You can see a video DIY guide along with all the details on our blog: DIY Chicken Tractor. Hope that helps a little

 

[Carols Clucks]

I have tin roof on our coop. (12x12 pitch with one side to the setting sun-leaves the other side in the shade) It is a SMALL coop 4x8. And the chickens free range all day and can move from shade spot to shade spot.

After reading all the warnings-concerns-issues people had, our first 90 degree day here I really cringed and figured I would put my hand in and see just how roasting it was in there.

I was surprised, the temps were not noticeably different from outside.

I have to think that is because of all the open ventilation we have. Both ends are basically open except the last foot or so (to keep the shavings from completely blowing out. We are in Coastal SoCal, so we don't have too many super hot days. We did use a shower curtain when it rained to keep them warmer and dryer. Since we are at the top of a hill and right where the wind funnels as it comes out of the coastal mountains, we get a lot of wind.

I would think if you really really watched your ventilation, maybe adding a turbine roof vent, it would work

 

[hennyannie]

I have my coop made from reused tin. It does not cook the hens in the summer, but they are mostly outside in the daytime and it N.C. not TEXAS. I have alot of ventilation too, like a roll up curtain on front and openings in the rafters.

 

[suzeqf]

At the moment my brooder is n my hubbys shop which is a non insulated corrigated metal building and it got very hot inside saturday it was over 90 degrees inside and 85 outside i opened the door to let the breeze in and turned on the fan to cool it down for the chicks but if you insulated it it should be ok my hubby is getting ready to put up the foilbacked insulation on one wall to get it from getting so hot because the shop vac was against the "hot" wall and the handle was melted