We found this playhouse on Craig's List and decided to buy it and convert it to a coop. It's 6 x8 and 6' tall:
We put hardware cloth in the windows, built a door and cut out a pop door.
Here is the front view:
We built the door with a small piece of plywood & some lattice my mom had left over from her grape arbor. Fortunately, the woman who sold the playhouse to us also gave me the paint she used so we could paint the door to match:
We used ChevyBethGirl's idea for the hoop house to build the run. We used pressure treated wood for it (to protect from the rain). It's 12 x 8. Then we took 3 cattle panels and bent them over. We used nails and just bent the heads to fasten the panels to the wood. Then we covered it with hardware cloth. That's a young apple tree in front.
That white thing on top is a plastic table cloth I got at the dollar store to protect them from rain on that side.
This is the view of the door to the run:
I built this perch for the run using a tree branch and some milk cartons:
I'm still working on the inside:
Need a better perch
Because they are sleeping on top of the nest boxes (I found these on Craig's List). I still need to attach them to the wall.
Still not done, but at least they are safe in the meantime.
Any suggestions for improvement?
We put hardware cloth in the windows, built a door and cut out a pop door.
Here is the front view:
We built the door with a small piece of plywood & some lattice my mom had left over from her grape arbor. Fortunately, the woman who sold the playhouse to us also gave me the paint she used so we could paint the door to match:
We used ChevyBethGirl's idea for the hoop house to build the run. We used pressure treated wood for it (to protect from the rain). It's 12 x 8. Then we took 3 cattle panels and bent them over. We used nails and just bent the heads to fasten the panels to the wood. Then we covered it with hardware cloth. That's a young apple tree in front.
That white thing on top is a plastic table cloth I got at the dollar store to protect them from rain on that side.
This is the view of the door to the run:
I built this perch for the run using a tree branch and some milk cartons:
I'm still working on the inside:
Need a better perch
Because they are sleeping on top of the nest boxes (I found these on Craig's List). I still need to attach them to the wall.
Still not done, but at least they are safe in the meantime.
Any suggestions for improvement?
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