I finally started!!! Pixs!

[chills]

awesome carpentry work .. cant wait to see more .. thanks for sharing ..

 

[SimplyForties]

That looks great! Maybe it'll inspire me to start mine!

 

[LittleMamaBigPapa]

Looking great! We used that 4 inch on center siding too. Man, its expensive stuff. Next time, (if we ever expand our flock) we will use OSB.

NICE. Cant wait to see the finished coop!!

 

[lunkerchicken]

Nice start - great looking coop design! Keep us posted!

 

[MaggieRae]

We actually haven't paid a cent for the coop since we had a $500 gift card to Home Depot (SCORE!

)

 

[chickens3]

Looks good i hope you stain the wood or you will not have the coop for long at all.

 

[ducks4you]

TOTAL SCORE using that gift card!

Boy, you ARE good at carpentry, and I want your phone--you've got a lot of clarity in those pics!!!

 

[gardenak]

What are the dimensions? How many hens are you going to have? My Hub and I built a coop 6 X 4 and 6' high so I can stand up in it to clean it. I'll send pics along when I finish it. Mine is treated plywood and 2 X 4's with the polywall interior so I can hose it out. Still need to put the nest boxes and roosts in. Finish the chicken door and run. The work never ends does it?

 

[MaggieRae]

The coop is inside, so I'm not staining it yet. Since we have a cabin the coop is going to be stained to match it (minus the log siding) and shingled with a couple of left over packs.

My father built the whole thing for me, so all the carpentry is him.

I can barely handle the nail gun. Too loud!

We ordered 8 hens, but aren't expecting to have them all in a year. The coop is 8ft by 4 ft, (approximately...) and is about 4-5ft tall. It will be off the ground of course and so the nest boxes will be perfect height for egg collecting and cleaning. The chickens will also have a 8x10 or bigger run.
We hope they'll like it!!! It will be entirely predator proof, but still, there are some resourceful critturs around here.

 

[Suburban chick farmer 09]

Nice start, keep the pics coming.