Now for the interior. Just so everyone knows I am new to this and just making things up as I go.
Here's a good use for an old hockey stick. You can see one nesting box on the right. The box juts out into the barn to save floor space. I need a piece of belting down inside the box then add shavings. two more boxes to build. Box has flip down back for egg retrieval inside the barn
Three doors in the coop. One on either end, and one going into the old barn cut between the studs.
The studs in the middle of the floor are from the old exterior wall.
Lots of roosting space. We have a bunch of downed trees towards the end of the yard, so we cut some up for roosts.
We didn't have a lot of money to put into this coop so we used some recycled material, including a broken shovel handle. The chickens like sitting up in the windows, but they poop there and it gets dirty, so on the new side there are no sills for them to sit on, but there is a roost directly in front of the window.
Here are a couple other angles. You may notice the window beside the door has a piece of lumber going across it. Didn't want Irene to blow it open and bust window. Window very old and fragile.
You probably noticed the gap between the boards on the exterior wall. The boards were mounted tight together, but as they have been drying the gap has been increasing.
