i wish someone would have told me!!

[miss_thenorth]

Fridge cart???

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

Don't feel too stoopid. Listen to what I did!

I kept noticing the back left corner of the coop was wet, like water was blowing in the window but there's no way that could happen, right? Right. There's not. What was happening was that the sprinkler UNDER THE COOP was getting water up between the wall and the floor. I didn't even know we had a sprinkler head there until we built the coop!

Now, THAT is stoopid.

Still trying to figger out if I can just cap the PVC or if I have to do something special to get rid of that sprinkler.

 

[PAChickenChick]

Well, you can add me to this list as well.
I had a slab of concrete already here from when we bought our house and I was going to put my raised coop on that so that it would be level, pred. proof...ect.

I had asked DH if that place was ok to use incase he wanted to put a shed there. He ok'd it so I began building....well, now my Mom (who lives with us now) wants to buy us a shed (which we really do need) but that slab is the only suitable place for it....so.....

hahahahaha...

 

[havi]

Quote:
Tell me about it.

When we bought this house the small shed we wanted for the chicken coop had to be moved. We torn everything off it, so the frame was the only thing left. And the sucker was still too heavy!! So DH s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y moved it with his truck. Only to have the shed crack when we where moving it the last inch or so.

 

[dftkarin]

Can we see pictures of your coop? This is just the size I'm hoping to have - how many chickens do you have? Can you post pictures!?

 

[Sunny Side Up]

No matter how you decide to move it, be sure to have someone there for the sole purpose of FILMING the entire process. That way, if some mishap occurs, you could at least send in the tape to America's Funniest Home Videos. The $10,000 prize money can then be used to build a new and spiffier coop for your chickens.

 

[seminolewind]

We did that, and used 2 of those round fence posts, they're like landscape ties, but round. Works great.

 

[Dar]

we did sort of the same thing..we bulit the "playpen" as we call it...the pen we used brfore the chicks could go outside..we bulit it in the basement in the TV room well we really wanted it in the other room that has the door to go outside but we bulit it to big to fit through the door ..so from april till june we watched TV with the chicks

 

[scooby]

I think im gona go to home depot or ace and check out the wheels the more i think about it the more i think it would be a good idea so we can move it if we want. we just bought our house a year ago, with a dirt yard so we still have alot of lanscaping to do, so i might just want to change location eventually anyways, why not i got to go get the fencing for the run anyways might as well grab some wheels to, dang this thing just gets more and more expensive!!!

 

[joebryant]

I think the following by digitS' was one of the best and most useful posts ever put on this forum. Sure wish that I had seen it before I began building my coop.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=75069