INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

I am sure this will be gone into as I read but I want to add, Kristin is correct about the daughters eggs being the changed eggs. 

Also hens DO have seasonal coloring changes and sometimes even white-egg-layers can lay a slightly brown or tinted egg after a long period of non-laying because of a build-up of the brown pigment, protoporphyrin which is derived from hemoglobin or blood, within their reproductive tract.

Good morning, M'Lady!!!

 

[daxigait]

OK guys, I have a bunch of free four foot 2x4's. I will get plywood, 4x4's and some long boards, but what is the best coop design with that. I am thinking loafing shed style up 18"-2' for space under it, three foot at the short side with boxes out the back, and four foot at the front, width 4'and 8' long. Side pop door and run so that three or 4' hardware cloth can be used partially covered run.
I have looked at plans in the section and will look more, but several of you build nice stuff and/or may have seen one you might think will work.

 

[Chaos18]

"There ain't no sunshine when she's gone"

 

[Chaos18]

OK guys, I have a bunch of free four foot 2x4's. I will get plywood, 4x4's and some long boards, but what is the best coop design with that. I am thinking loafing shed style up 18"-2' for space under it, three foot at the short side with boxes out the back, and four foot at the front, width 4'and 8' long. Side pop door and run so that three or 4' hardware cloth can be used partially covered run.
I have looked at plans in the section and will look more, but several of you build nice stuff and/or may have seen one you might think will work.

My coops are usually square. Slanted roof front to back. Nest boxes inside. About 24" off the ground. Pop door in the front. Egg door in the back and a clean out door on one side. One coop is 6x6 and the other is 8x8. Walls are about 4' high with ventilation all the way around the top covered with hardware cloth.

 

[casportpony]

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Good morning Sunshine!

-Banti

"There ain't no sunshine when she's gone"

I like that song!

-Kathy

 

[daxigait]

My coops are usually square. Slanted roof front to back. Nest boxes inside. About 24" off the ground. Pop door in the front. Egg door in the back and a clean out door on one side. One coop is 6x6 and the other is 8x8. Walls are about 4' high with ventilation all the way around the top covered with hardware cloth.

any pictures? Where are you? I was thinking of having their entrance on the side so I can hinge the one whole side to open and clean like a poop board and so I could put two coops 'together' to share a run side to save on hardware cloth.

 

[kwhites634]

OK guys, I have a bunch of free four foot 2x4's. I will get plywood, 4x4's and some long boards, but what is the best coop design with that. I am thinking loafing shed style up 18"-2' for space under it, three foot at the short side with boxes out the back, and four foot at the front, width 4'and 8' long. Side pop door and run so that three or 4' hardware cloth can be used partially covered run.
I have looked at plans in the section and will look more, but several of you build nice stuff and/or may have seen one you might think will work.

I rather like the one UR just built. I'd think a 1' roof slope should be sufficient for your climate. If not, you could always push the snow off before it created a problem. For myself, I'd want the run high enough so I could walk upright under the roof, and install 1x2 welded wire over the un-roofed portion.

 

[daxigait]

I learned from my first mible coop.

 

[Chaos18]

any pictures? Where are you? I was thinking of having their entrance on the side so I can hinge the one whole side to open and clean like a poop board and so I could put two coops 'together' to share a run side to save on hardware cloth.

I'm in PA. Don't currently have any pics but can get some this evening. My clean out doors are a whole side opens up kinda thing.

 

[daxigait]

I'm in PA. Don't currently have any pics but can get some this evening. My clean out doors are a whole side opens up kinda thing.

the one above does that.
@kwhites634 I can live with four foot, otherwise it is a bunch more hardware cloth.