I Would Love to See Pictures of Your Set Up!

[trinityfly]

I just love all the new constructions. Some are painfully cute. Our Hen house and Run are comprised of a Lean-to Hen House (10X10) and Run (10X14) at the rear of our old Barn. Outside of that is a fenced yard under tree cover (40X20), then a gate to a fenced 2 acre wood for the Chicken tribe to free range. See pics

14 years with chicken friends, 14 years of tears and laughs and oh yes........eggs

 

[darkmatter]

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Darkmatter, is pressure treated pine okay to build a shed out of?

The only pressure treated lumber I used was for the sill that is the base of the walls on top of the foundation. I also made sure my exterior sheathing extended down past the sill, overlapping the foundation. This is to prevent rainwater running down the side of the coop and entering the sill area and rotting the base of the walls. The reason I used pressure treated lumber for the base of the walls on top of my brick foundation was to prevent moisture from the ground working its way up to cause decay. More then half of my Coop was salvage materials, I use money only for the sheathing and some tarpaper, I had the shingles and windows and misc 2X4s from salvage.

 

[Jloeffler]

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Darkmatter, is pressure treated pine okay to build a shed out of?

The only pressure treated lumber I used was for the sill that is the base of the walls on top of the foundation. I also made sure my exterior sheathing extended down past the sill, overlapping the foundation. This is to prevent rainwater running down the side of the coop and entering the sill area and rotting the base of the walls. The reason I used pressure treated lumber for the base of the walls on top of my brick foundation was to prevent moisture from the ground working its way up to cause decay. More then half of my Coop was salvage materials, I use money only for the sheathing and some tarpaper, I had the shingles and windows and misc 2X4s from salvage.

Where are you getting your salvaged materials from?

 

[darkmatter]

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The only pressure treated lumber I used was for the sill that is the base of the walls on top of the foundation. I also made sure my exterior sheathing extended down past the sill, overlapping the foundation. This is to prevent rainwater running down the side of the coop and entering the sill area and rotting the base of the walls. The reason I used pressure treated lumber for the base of the walls on top of my brick foundation was to prevent moisture from the ground working its way up to cause decay. More then half of my Coop was salvage materials, I use money only for the sheathing and some tarpaper, I had the shingles and windows and misc 2X4s from salvage.

Where are you getting your salvaged materials from?

Friends, relatives, neighbors doing remodeling. Dumpsters, stuff thrown out from work. Just ask around any business or construction site if there's anything there're throwing away you can have. The downside of this is your backyard starts to get cluttered with "works in progress"

 

[rpchris]

I'm still in the early stages of construction. Somedays I wonder if it will ever get finished. :roll eyes: My coop is on my profile page:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=104964

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

Here you go!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=569976

 

[buttercup0884]

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You need to enter ur coop in the fall/winter coop contest! Good job

 

[Jloeffler]

Rpchris very cool! I think you are really going to like it when it's altogether and I'm sure your chicks will too! We built our first one in the garage but forgot to make sure we could take it apart t move it to the back...took four full grown men to move the bulk of it and me carrying a door piece. We learned our lesson for the second coop though!

Juan any time you feel like building another...

 

[TheJuan-n-Only]

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hahahaha, I'm already itching to expand it!!! lol....you pay 1st class trip we can figure something out!!! lol

 

[Jloeffler]

For a first class ticket I could buy one, but they still aren't as cool as yours turned out! Wouldn't your family enjoy a tripnto the Outer Banks?? We haven't had a natural diaster in weeks!