We took a day to design it looking like a little old school house. The next two days we purchased the materials(actually my mom paid for the materials because the girls had to come to my house to live because of a city code issue in her city and she felt a sense of obligation to pay for it. Plus where we live there a lot of coyotes and we unfortunately lost two of my late dads chickens when they came to live with us). Thank you mom for the purchase! My husband and brother in law and older son built it in about 3 days. The girls moved in and one side of the walls that are supposed to have laying boxes is still not completed and it not yet painted. I doubt very seriously the girls care and we still haven't put on the shingles yet. They are so not picky.
If you ask me its quite habitabal for a human. It cost about $500. to build and is still not completed. We are a little slow around here I know, but the girls don't complain. It has six laying boxes with optional ventilation for those warm summer days we have here in Southern California, a flip up front door, barn door type access in the rear and all complete with locking latches to keep the night time critters out. It is built on skids so if we want to move it we can move it with the use of the Bobcat. I do plan to paint it this Spring.
This turned into a bigger project than I thought it would be, but my brother in law never does anything small scale.
MagicMarcy66
If you ask me its quite habitabal for a human. It cost about $500. to build and is still not completed. We are a little slow around here I know, but the girls don't complain. It has six laying boxes with optional ventilation for those warm summer days we have here in Southern California, a flip up front door, barn door type access in the rear and all complete with locking latches to keep the night time critters out. It is built on skids so if we want to move it we can move it with the use of the Bobcat. I do plan to paint it this Spring.
This turned into a bigger project than I thought it would be, but my brother in law never does anything small scale.
MagicMarcy66